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  • Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown

    cnocbuicnocbui
    You know what's hilarious about this...just as Microsoft is getting commentators to stop calling these iPads, something malfunctions. Even if it had nothing to do with the Surface itself that's all the people watching are going to remember.

    As far as Surfaces selling like hotcakes...since Microsoft has never provided sales figures how would we know? And I have a feeling there are quite a few returns considering all the issues the devices are having. https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/64095/welcome-to-surfacegate
    Well sales of the Surface overtook sales of iPads, for the first time, in Oct 2015.  I suspect the data collection method doesn't account for sales from The Apple Store, but it does refute DED's claim of "Surface has been an embarrassing commercial failure for Microsoft".  It's pretty clear the Surface is now selling well.
    singularityrevenanttechloverlord amhran

  • Microsoft Surface blamed for NFL football playoffs meltdown

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    bobschlob said:
    tezgno said:
    While I can understand bashing the competition... unfortunately, this issue can't be blamed on the Microsoft Surface (or Microsoft at all). As has been reported on (and confirmed by) the NFL before, the issue has nothing to do with the Surface. Rather, it's the NFL's servers and application that went down (hence why it goes down across multiple teams at the same time). The tablet runs an application that connects to NFL servers and pulls in data including pictures, replay information, etc. It is that system that has been going down recently. To be honest, while Microsoft has paid a large sum of money for their tablets to be shown and used, the entire process is technically platform agnostic. They can run the application on anything. Unfortunately, it wouldn't matter which tablet they chose in these cases... if their servers are down, then there is nothing that can be done.
    Aww gee golly gosh! I wonder what operating system is running those backend servers?


    I wonder what Apple's Cloud services run on? 

    http://www.zdnet.com/article/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud/#!

    Nice to see DED maintaining his usual standards in this article.

    This is how it should be done: "iPad app issue grounds 'a few dozen' American Airlines flights " You see that word 'app'? - adds this little thing called accuracy.
    rhinotufftechloverlord amhran

  • Another new kernel flaw that Google won't fix for Android users prompts more switching to Apple's i

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    rocwurst said:
    cnocbui said:
    This means that all those Sim free customers get their OS updates directly from the manufacturer in most cases, or from a carrier, if that is from whom they purchased their phone.  Manufacturer updates can be installed as soon as the are released and don't suffer any delay as do those that have to go through carriers.  So while that list I just grabbed at random may pertain to US carriers, the fact remains that the updates for those phone models were also made available world wide, sooner in many cases,  and were not restricted to just the US.
    Unfortunately your theory is not demonstrated to be true in the real world.

    87% of Android devices insecure

    Thursday 8th October 2015

    Manufacturers fail to provide security updates

    A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that 87% of Android devices are vulnerable to attack by malicious apps and messages. Manufacturers are to blame, because most do not provide regular security updates.

     http://androidvulnerabilities.org/images/norm_versionsecurity.svg 

    Nice attempt at diversion there.  We were talking about one specific vulnerability that you chose to use as an example of an Android vulnerability that hadn't been addressed.  That didn't hold up to scrutiny so you are now trying another angle.

    As for your garbage from  androidvulnerabilities.org - sounds like a domain DED would create.  Did you read what was being measured by the researchers?  That 87% is because in the sample used there appeared to be a lot of people using Android phones who hadn't updated their OS to the latest versions that were available for their phones, or their phones were over two years old and the manufacturers were no longer providing OS updates for them, and so they weren't protected.  That's like saying 87% of people who stand in front of a moving train are likely to die.

    I think this means there are a lot of people who are either ignorant about the potential dangers or they don't care because there is nothing on their phones of great value like financial details.  The thing that I suspect would strike the greatest fear into the hearts of the majority of mobile phone users would be them having all their social media accounts hijacked and for them to not be able to then access them.

    If someone actually has stuff worth stealing on their phone, they should probably use a Windows phone.  I did like the way you sidestepped the issue of Apple not patching a critical security vulnerability in OSX because they only care about IOS these days - nice touch.
    singularity

  • Another new kernel flaw that Google won't fix for Android users prompts more switching to Apple's i

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    rocwurst said:
    cnocbui said:
    Most mobile phone OS attacks are happening in China.  Any exploit requiring physical access to a device is non-critical for anyone who isn't a target of a nation-state's security service.
    Actually, 10% of those 32.8 million malware infections in 2012 occurred in the USA according to InQ Mobile. 

    Stagefright is just one of many vulnerabilities that don't require physical access to compromise an Android phone. In the case of Stagefright, your phone could just be sitting there and a simple MMS message is all that is required to own your phone.

    Other Related Stagefright vulnerabilities only require simply browsing a graphic on a web page, in an email or a chat app. 

    This particular kernel vulnerability is just one of a multitude that won't be patched on the majority of Android devices around the world. 
    I said most.  10% is not most.

    Samsung issued a patch for Stagefright for the S6 in a matter of weeks, similarly so did other manufacturers. here's a list of phones that were patched:

    According to you and other AI founts of Android wisdom, Android security exploits are never fixed.

    Meanwhile, when is Apple going to patch the vulnerability that was found in Keychain?  Last I heard it was 'one day'.


    singularity

  • Hermes, Apple begin selling exclusive Apple Watch collection online [u]

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    rogifan_old said:
    cnocbui said:
    The Watch per se or the €3 worth of leather used to triple the price?
    See there you awe with the snark. Why?
    Because I find the price to be ridiculous and therefore fair game for ridicule.
    jetpilot