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IAMAI, Facebook partner to educate children on Internet safety:

Press Trust of India | 15-Jul-2013 14:32 PM

Mumbai: Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has joined hands with social networking giant Facebook to launch internet safety education programme in the country for students aged between 13 17 years.

The programme will train children, teachers and parents on how to reap maximum benefits from internet while not compromising on their safety and security, IAMAI and Facebook said in a joint statement today.

The campaign, which is focused on building community awareness on the issue, will also train educators and child safety NGOs about internet safety practices, it added.

As a part of the first phase, the programme will be rolled out across Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad to cover 18,000 students across about 30 schools and institutions, it added.

"IAMAI has been running the Safe Surfing campaign in India for past four years covering 6.25 lakh students across the country. We are delighted that Facebook has come forward to support this critical initiative and enrich the campaign with their global learnings," IAMAI President Subho Ray said.

The programme will conclude with a national conference in New Delhi addressing online child safety issues later this year. The program will be extended to other Indian cities through 2014.

"Safety is an ongoing conversation between parents and kids, teachers and students, companies and the people who use the Internet. We encourage parents to have conversations about safety and technology early and often, in the same way that they talk to their kids about being safe at school, in the car, on public transportation or playing sport," Facebook India Director of Public Policy Ankhi Das said.

Facebook will develop the content and training materials and translate the same in regional languages. As part of the partnership, Facebook safety specialists will work with IAMAI trainers on safety content and participate in these training programs.

Key presentations and events will be live streamed via https://www.facebook.com/FacebookIndia.

Facebook has already created a Safety Advisory Board that advises the company on safety issues. The members of that board are leading Internet safety organisations like Childnet international, Connect Safely, The Family Online Safety Institute, The National Network to End Domestic Violence and Wired Safety.

http://m.ibnlive.com/news/iamai-facebook-partner-to-educate-children-on-internet-safety/406733-11.html

DOJ Ruling That Apple Violated Antitrust Laws

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Justice Department Issues Statement on U.S. District Court Ruling That Apple Violated Antitrust Laws

Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division made the following statement today after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found that Apple Inc. violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by conspiring to raise e-book prices and end e-book retailers’ freedom to compete on price:

“This result is a victory for millions of consumers who choose to read books electronically.  After carefully weighing the evidence, the court agreed with the Justice Department and 33 state attorneys general that executives at the highest levels of Apple orchestrated a conspiracy with five major publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster – to raise e-book prices.  Through today’s court decision and previous settlements with five major publishers, consumers are again benefitting from retail price competition and paying less for their e-books.

“As the department’s litigation team established at trial, Apple executives hoped to ensure that its e-book business would be free from retail price competition, causing consumers throughout the country to pay higher prices for many e-books.  The evidence showed that the prices of the conspiring publishers’ e-books increased by an average of 18 percent as a result of the collusive effort led by Apple.

“Companies cannot ignore the antitrust laws when they believe it is in their economic self-interest to do so. This decision by the court is a critical step in undoing the harm caused by Apple’s illegal actions.

“I am proud of the outstanding work done by the trial team.  The Antitrust Division will continue to vigorously protect competition and enforce the antitrust laws in this important business, and in other industries that affect the everyday lives of consumers.”

Background
           
On April 11, 2012, the department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Apple, Hachette Book Group (USA), HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, which does business as Macmillan, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Simon & Schuster Inc., for conspiring to end e-book retailers' freedom to compete on price by taking control of pricing from e-book retailers and substantially increasing the prices that consumers paid for e-books.

At the same time that it filed the lawsuit, the department reached settlements with three of the publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Those settlements were approved by the court in September 2012.  The department settled with Penguin on Dec. 18, 2012, and with Macmillan on Feb. 8, 2013.  The Penguin settlement was approved by the court in May 2013.  Final approval of the Macmillan settlement is pending before the court.  Under the settlements, each publisher was required to terminate agreements that prevented e-book retailers from lowering the prices at which they sell e-books to consumers and to allow for retail price competition in renegotiated e-book distribution agreements.

The department’s trial against Apple, which was overseen by Judge Denise Cote, began on June 3, 2013. The trial lasted for three weeks, with closing arguments taking place on June 20, 2013.  The court has not yet scheduled a hearing to address the parties’ proposed remedies.

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/July/13-at-772.html

National Child Safety Advocates to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety:

National Child Safety Advocates Partner With We Published That, L.L.C. to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety

Authors of the bestselling book, The Authority On™ Child Safety: How to talk to your kids about their personal safety without scaring them, Gary Martin Hays, Adam Weart, and Mary Ellen Fulkus have teamed up with Richard Swords, one of the highest ranking Krav Maga instructors in the US, to create the follow-up book in the series that will focus on teaching personal safety.

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The Authority On™ Child Safety, was published late last year and quickly achieved bestseller status on Amazon.com, even reaching #1 in the “Personal Safety” and “Health” categories. The book focuses on helping parents and caregivers start the conversation with children about their own personal safety in a non-threatening way.

The forthcoming book, The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II: How to TEACH your child about their personal safety, will act as a manual for parents and caregivers to follow when teaching children about personal safety. The book will cover topics ranging from “dialing 911” to “self defense in the event of an emergency.”

Richard Swords was asked to provide his expertise in this book, given his background in self-defense and child safety empowerment. Richard has trained thousands of men, women, and children in the art of self-defense and protection. He is a Krav Maga Black Belt Instructor, 1 of only 6 instructors in the United States certified by the Wingate Institute, the National Sports and Olympic training center for Israel, the home of Krav Maga. Richard is also a certified KMA Force Civilian Law Enforcement Instructor, Cross Fit Instructor, and 4th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, with 25 years of experience in Martial Arts.

Krav Maga is based on simple principles and instinctive movements. This reality-based system is designed to teach real self-defense in the shortest possible time. It teaches to defend against common chokes, grabs, and bearhugs, as well as weapons such as guns, knives, and sticks. Just as important, it teaches people to function during the stress and shock of a sudden, violent encounter.

“Richard brings an amazing knowledge base to this book given his background, but he also genuinely cares about helping kids,” says Gary Martin Hays. All the authors from this book have agreed to donate 100% of the royalties to “Lets Protect Our Kids,” a child safety initiative.

The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II is scheduled to be published mid-2013 and will be available in paperback and in e-book format on Amazon.com.

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Global Internet for Robots Comes Online:

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European researchers last week launched a global Internet for robots called Rapyuta—an online database of information designed "to help them cope" with the confusing world of humans,according to BBC News.

Rapyuta is the work of the European RoboEarth Project, which describes its mission as the development of "a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment."

Last week's launch of Rapyuta represents the first phase of a project that aims to build a large-scale, cloud-based resource for robots of all kinds which would serve as both an informational database and a calculating engine for jacked-in androids. Such a network of information would give massively more useful information to robots which currently rely on their own onboard memory banks and processing power to deal with real-world situations on an individual basis, project researchers said.

"[T]he goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behavior, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction," the RoboEarth Web site states.

The use of Rapyuta could also make it far cheaper to produce more mobile robots, since they wouldn't require as much onboard storage and processing power, Dr. Heico Sandee, Robo Earth program manager at the Dutch University of Technology in Eindhoven, told BBC News.

"On-board computation reduces mobility and increases cost," he said, adding that as the network evolves "more robotic thinking could be offloaded to the Web.

The wirelessly accessible database currently serves as a fount of information for "software components, maps for navigation (e.g., object locations, world models), task knowledge (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies), and object recognition models (e.g., images, object models)," according to researchers.

Information in the database comes from both robots and humans and is presented in a machine-readable format in a "Cloud Robotics infrastructure which includes everything needed to close the loop from robot to the cloud and back to the robot."

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Facebook's Revamped News Feed: 3 Things To Do:

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Debra Donston-Miller | March 09, 2013 09:06 AM

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Facebook is changing its News Feed feature -- significantly. The update will be rolling out to users in the next month or so, but from what we've seen so far, the new News Feed is a vast improvement in the Facebook experience. But because even good changes can be unsettling, here are three tips to smooth the transition when the new News Feed lands on your virtual doorstep.

1. Pay more attention to photos.

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One of the biggest changes to the News Feed is the size and prominence of photos. In fact, during the press event announcing the News Feed changes, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said images will comprise 50% of total News Feed content. That picture of your adorable new baby, that once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia, or the majestic bald eagle you spotted while hiking will be bigger and brighter, with more visible details than ever. So will the picture of your spouse on a bad hair day (or worse). So be careful what you post. Just saying.

2. Be prepared to drill down for content.

If your current Facebook News Feed is anything like mine, it's a mishmash of promoted posts, suggested pages and updates from the many brands that you've "liked." Oh, and once in a while you'll see an actual update from a friend (a real-world friend, not just the Facebook kind) or family member.

[ For more on Facebook's facelift, see Facebook News Feed: 5 Coolest Changes. ]

That's the problem -- for users and businesses alike -- that Facebook is looking to solve with its new specialized streams. At the press event, Zuckerberg compared the new News Feed to, of all things, a print newspaper, with the News Feed being the equivalent of a front page and new specialized streams akin to the different sections in a newspaper. With the new News Feed, you can choose to consume content from streams dedicated to (among other things) music, photos or updates from pages that you follow. It may take a little getting used to, but this new interface promises to streamline the end-user experience and make it generally more effective.

3. Add the Facebook app to your iPhone and iPad.

If you haven't bothered to use Facebook on your mobile device because you heard the experience was subpar, you should go ahead and download the app soon. It's true that the News Feed of old offered what could be kindly called a less-than-optimal experience, but Facebook designed the new News Feed with mobile in mind from the start. In fact, the Facebook experience on your mobile device will be the same as that on a PC. Facebook says the News Feed changes will roll out to iOS first, then to Android.

Have you gotten the new News Feed yet? If so, what advice would you give to those just starting with it? Please let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Follow Deb Donston-Miller on Twitter at @debdonston.

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Microsoft's Kinect powers 'magical' smart home in Spain:

Agence France-Presse, March 09, 2013

With a flick of the wrist, residents of a futuristic home developed in Spain can browse Internet pages displayed on the living room walls, switch off a giant projected alarm clock in the bedroom or transform the entire interior into a busy streetscape or tranquil beach.

It may seem light years ahead of current "smart home" technology, but this prototype apartment in Fuenterrabia, a city in Spain's northern Basque country, is far from the realms of fantasy.

The technology used to create the interactive interior is the same as that already being used in video games.

The team behind the prototype have linked projectors which beam interactive applications on to walls to Kinect motion sensors, developed by Microsoft for its X-box 360 console, thus allowing residents to control their environment simply by waving their hands.

It seems to work like magic.
In the morning, a wave at the wall will switch off the alarm and display your diary at the same time.

If you fancy a change of scenery, just one small gesture will splash video on every wall, turning half of the apartment into a busy urban street or picturesque seascape, complete with sound effects.
"The project is a working prototype of a smart home," said its creator, Ion Cuervas-Mons, at a visual presentation of the project to AFP in Madrid.

"What we have done is to add a digital layer to a physical space to be able to interact with digital information through gestures, people's different movements," he said.

Cuervas-Mons launched the Openarch project in November 2011 and built the prototype in his own apartment.

He now leads the Think Big Factory, a core team of five architects and engineers, who collaborate with others to develop various products.

"There is a general interface, which is in the living room and which interacts with your hands," he explained.

"You go two metres away from the wall and move a type of cursor and you can switch lights on and off, turn music on and off, launch Internet sites, which then come up in a projection on another wall."
But the project is only 40 percent complete, he said.

"When we have finished the prototype, we will start to transform the applications into products. That is our goal for next year," he said.

The development team want to make the system unobtrusive so that a user can manipulate the gadgets in the most natural way possible.

Instead of trying to sell the entire interactive home system, the team aims to develop specific products from it.

But each product would be able to communicate, allowing a buyer to create a system for the entire house should they wish.

And homes are not the only destination for the technology, Cuervas-Mons said.

"For example, we have been working with a large retail business and the first sector where we might see this technology could be supermarkets," he said.
"This technology lets you convert non-commercial spaces into commercial spaces. You will be able to buy anywhere. You will be able to shop from your home, from the metro, from your car," he said. "I think this will totally change the way we shop."

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/microsofts-kinect-powers-magical-smart-home-in-spain-340331