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петак, 13. април 2012.

California senate bill would need warrant for GPS info

21602updated 07:40 pm EDT, Thu April 12, 2012 California bill to limit cellphone tracking

A new bill introduced in California would restrict government tracking of cellphones without a warrant, the LA Times reported. State Senator Mark Leno introduced SB 1434 as a proposed amendment to the Penal Code. Leno believes that the state government's laws aren't reflecting the newly available technology and access to the sensitive location information isn't adequately supervised.If passed in its entirety into law, the bill would also limit search warrants to no longer than is needed, and never longer than 30 days. The state Senate policy committee will meet regarding the bill this spring.

Leno's stance is backed by an American Civil Liberties Union audit of law enforcement agencies around the country that found the practice is fairly common without a warrant or subpoena. It's done either using the GPS sensor in a phone or triangulation between cell towers.

Some, including the founding academic director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham University Joel Reidenberg, believe such tracking may even violate the first amendment that protects the freedom of association of US citizens.

The precedent-setting US Supreme Court case of United States vs. Jones ruled that tracking movements using a device is comparable to trespassing on private property, although cellphones aren't necessarily covered as they don't necessarily require extra tracking hardware.

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Leak: RIM ex-CEO would have let Android, iPhone use BIS

01604updated 08:15 am EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 RIM would have used BIS servers for basic data

RIM's former co-CEO Jim Balsillie had proposed using BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) servers to provide data for non-BlackBerry hardware shortly before he resigned his position, new leaks uncovered on Friday. The method outlined to Reuters would have let carriers offer Android and iPhone devices with cheaper data plans that limited Internet access to chat (possibly BlackBerry Messenger) and social networks, much like entry BlackBerry plans do today. RIM would presumably have made money from leasing access to carriers eager to get more smartphone customers and offload some of their bandwidth needs.The company was supposedly "well along the path," having written software to enable the feature on Apple and Google platforms.

Talks with carriers, however, supposedly created a rift. Soon-to-be CEO Thorsten Heins reportedly disagreed with Balsillie's strategy, which included talks with AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), France Telecom (Orange), Telefonica (O2), and Vodafone. Instead, he put all his hopes on future BlackBerry 10 hardware due later in the year.

The strategy switch would have shifted RIM into becoming more of a services company and effectively conceding that the smartphone market was no longer the BlackBerry's to lead. Its early frontrunner position was gradually lost in the wake of the iPhone and saw RIM only slowly acknowledge that it needed to catch up, with slow hardware updates and odd touchscreen models giving few signs that it understood the competitive threat. Heins has said that RIM didn't anticipate the Bring Your Own Device movement among corporate buyers and, to keep RIM in the limelight, has helped unveil Mobile Fusion to manage Android, iOS, and BlackBerry devices all at once.

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Portugal proposal would tax computer, mobile storage [U]

01602updated 09:30 am EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 Portugese may try copyright levy

(Update: may be shelved) Portugal's opposition-status Socialist Party has made a proposal that could, in at least some cases, hike the prices of computers and mobile devices. Although ostensibly to focus on professionals, what Portugal's Exame Informatica saw (via TechEye) would add a levy of 20 euro cents per gigabyte on storage up to 1TB and 2.5 euro cents for devices over 2TB. The rate would climb to as much as five euro cents per gigabyte for external "multimedia" drives.The levies would also extend to both internal and external flash storage. A memory card or USB thumb drive would incur six euro cents per gigabyte, while even internal flash on a phone would face a 50 euro cents levy. Printers would see an odd levy based on the pages-per-minute rate.

In practice, the costs could see dozens of euros added to the price of hardware, such as

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четвртак, 12. април 2012.

Macmillan: DOJ 'too onerous,' Amazon would regain monopoly

016011updated 12:40 pm EDT, Wed April 11, 2012 Macmillan CEO insists company innocent

Macmillan CEO John Sargent in an open letter blasted the Department of Justice for its e-book antitrust lawsuit. He insisted that his publishing company had "done no wrong" and that he, alone, had Macmillan switch to an agency model that hiked e-book prices. Revealing more than the DOJ had mentioned itself while confirming rumors, he said talks had broken down after "months" and that the DOJ's terms would allegedly let Amazon go back to the wholesale model and unfairly dominate through artificially low prices."The terms the DOJ demanded were too onerous," Sargent wrote. "After careful consideration, we came to the conclusion that the terms could have allowed Amazon to recover the monopoly position it had been building before our switch to the agency model. We also felt the settlement the DOJ wanted to impose would have a very negative and long term impact on those who sell books for a living, from the largest chain stores to the smallest independents."

He agreed with Author's Guild president Scott Turow's view and saw the DOJ as ironically hurting the very competition it was trying to save.

The remarks still sidestepped Apple's call for "most favored nation" status, where agreeing to sell through the iBookstore prevents offering a lower price anywhere else. Revoking this while keeping the agency model would theoretically allow sales and other competitive offers while preventing Amazon from selling below cost. Three publishers are believed to have already settled and would make Macmillan's case more difficult by implying that the collusion was real.

According to the lawsuit, Macmillan executives, including Sargent, allegedly attended numerous one-on-one meetings with other publishers between 2009 and 2010, a practice that was common in between the other major publishers as well. The discussions reportedly referred to Amazon's Kindle store as "the $9.99 problem" and turned to Apple when the companies couldn't make Amazon bend on price by themselves. One publisher's e-mail from July 29, 2009 mentioned talks between publishers to "create an alternative platform" to Amazon specifically to push prices higher.

The lawsuit stops short of directly showing that Apple was aware of any collusion, although it was accused of at least orchestrating a similar effect by demanding the agency model and the best prices from every publisher. Sargent did make clear that Apple's iBookstore and the imminent iPad launch were main factors, as he only made the decision at an odd hour just five days before the iPad was unveiled.

"After days of thought and worry, I made the decision on January 22nd, 2010 a little after 4:00 AM, on an exercise bike in my basement," he said. "It remains the loneliest decision I have ever made, and I see no reason to go back on it now."

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