Those famous cars with cameras are once again back in business, as Google continues its street photographing project in this country and around the world.
The fleet of snapping, snooping Street View vehicles had been grounded – or should that be parked – due to the unfortunate episode where Google “mistakenly” sampled wi-fi data from networks [...]
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Google Street View cars back in business in the UK
The row Rim has found itself in over security aspects of its BlackBerry range has deepened, with Saudi Arabia announcing it is going to ban the use of the handsets.
The Press Association reports that the government in Saudi Arabia is ordering operators to halt BlackBerry data services such as email and web browsing, due to [...]
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has effectively cleared Google over the wi-fi data collection uproar, which privacy activists sank their teeth into back in May.
If you don’t recall this one, basically it revolved around Google’s Street View photographing cars, which also carried radio antennae to pick up the signals from wi-fi networks around the country.
The idea was to map out wi-fi hotspots, but while it was doing this the company also sampled data from those wi-fi networks, “mistakenly” Google said at the time.
The ICO has taken a trip to the Google offices to examine this inadvertently collected data, to ensure the search company hadn’t made any meaningful intrusion into people’s privacy.
And the ICO’s conclusion was that no meaningful personal details which could be linked to a specific individual were contained within the data.
In a statement, the ICO said: “On the basis of the samples we saw we are satisfied so far that it is unlikely that Google will have captured significant amounts of personal data.”
“There is also no evidence as yet that the data captured by Google has caused or could cause any individual detriment.”
Even so, the ICO did deliver something of a slap on the wrist to the search giant, stating that it was wrong to collect the data (you don’t say). Furthermore, it said that the case could be reviewed should other evidence come to light from international investigations of Google’s wi-fi hoovering activity.
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HaiVision Launches PIRANHA Combining Audio and Video With Metadata for Low Latency H.264 Encoding Application – November 11, 2008 HaiVision Systems Inc., the world’s leading vendor of high performance H.264 HD and SD video codecs, today announced the availability of the new PIRANHA encoding platform. The PIRANHA, based on HaiVision’s low-latency H.264 encoding engine, combines time-based metadata with compressed video and audio into industry-standard MPEG transport streams.
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Blankom USA to Unveil New Digital Broadcast and Playout Solutions at SATCON 2008 – Blankom USA will feature several new digital broadcast and playout solution products at SATCON 2008 to be held October 15-16 in New York. Blankom USA, the U.S. arm of Blankom Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany, will be located at Booth #730
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