Posts by Dan 55

Re: tips & corrections

XDA Developers got a reply from Nuance confirming Android as well.

And what about those businesses who don't want slurp and for some reason (whatever it is) don't want to use Google services? They're still fighting those apps on their Android devices. What's your solution for those?

No, you confused Enterprise data management with Google's cloudy services. Why, I have no idea. Wasn't the point to stop Google getting its claws into the data?

I'm unconvinced that an MDM system's got everything under control, especially when all the basic apps (Dialler, Keyboard, Play Services, etc...) are Google's. Google can push out as many 'new helpful features' as they want and hopefully your MDM system will do something about it sooner rather than later.

Re: Who does Android Enterprise Recommended benefit ?

I don't see how Android could be recommended for business when calendar, contacts, notes, and app backups are slurped off to Google, unless you're very very careful.

And even if it is set up by IT right, a user will just add their Google account to it and the settings for that account are set to slurp by default.

Re: How

To make a call you start the Phone app (it's on the Dock) or hit Fn-Esc. You can then close the lid and carry on talking. It doesn't matter which way up you hold it, as there are two mics, and it works out which one is nearest your gob.

DTMF is going to be a bit inconvenient.

If you were to install a Linux distro, what happens to phone support/SIM data when running Linux?

Re: Oh, come on

Microsoft does offers a cheap license for people who recycle PC.

That's if the original licence key isn't available. In this case it is, it's in the BIOS.

Re: Codejunky...

Yup well said. Outside the cartel and acting like the many other countries not in the EU.

Indeed. Every other country up to the Russian border is in the single market, customs union or both. But accorsing to Brexiteers it apparently makes sense to leave that and isolate ourselves from our neighbours.

By the way, it's not necessary to leave the single market and customs union to leave the EU. The UK could move to the EFTA, which it was in up until 1972.

Re: @ iron

Please tell me you are aware that businesses sell people's personal data on to other businesses, right?

But only those doing business with the foreign country need follow the rules of the foreign country, as we do with the rest of the world.

No, businesses in the UK that hold extra-EU data still have to follow the DPA and businesses in the UK that want to store people's personal data extra-EU have to have a legal framework like Privacy Shield (which isn't worth the paper it's written on, but anyway).

Re: @ Halcin

Actually the EU are dictating that leaving the EU (voted for) requires leaving the single market.

No, that was dictated in May's first speech at Lancaster House, the same Lancaster House where Thatcher extolled the virtues of the single market after the UK played a major part in designing the it, and repeated by May in every of her speeches about Brexit since.

As for the previous post, you don't have an answer apart from spouting Boris-like piffle, now you seem to believe the UK will a say in setting standards for 169 countries. There is no idea to Brexit beyond stomping off home in a tantrum with your ball and proposing absurd half-baked ideas.

Manufacturers will sell products with standards specified by and for the EU and stick a UK plug or steering wheel on it. The UK will either accept those standards or it won't but it will be in no position to get the EU to change its standards, in no position to get manufacturers to make special versions of products due to deliberately-introduced changes to standards that mean incompatibility with EU standards, and certainly in no position to go through everything at customs and confiscate items. It can't even do that with China now.

The UK has no leverage and no bargaining power either with the EU or with other countries it might want to strike trade agreements with because it opted out of all that, first with the referendum result and secondly with the inept government.

Re: @ iron

Wouldn't work. The EU would insist the very least on a personal data firewall between businesses not dealing with the EU and businesses dealing with the EU, and it'd probably be easier just to say the UK is considered a non-GDPR friendly country unless regulations match the GDPR.

the UK’s exceptionally high standards of data protection

Where patient data is flogged left, right, and centre and fines are toothless. I wonder if German politicians laughed at that one.

Re: decrypt it or we'll legislate

Why not demand the government produce clear legislation with a detailed description of the means they propose, and then publicly poke holes in the logic of the legislation?

Because they'll be doing that at committee stage, and once the ball starts rolling it's difficult to stop.

Re: Have I missed something?

Speak for yourself. The maps on my phone get updated a couple of times a week, on average, without any action on my part.

And you still find places where it's wrong.

Re: Have I missed something?

You know how your satnav often gets it wrong due to old data? This is the same * 1000. Autonomous vehicles have to be able to see and understand traffic signs.

Also if roadsigns, even just the temporary ones, had to use custom transmitters they would all need replacing or modifying.

Re: Just adding Razor Wire

If anything, removing it.

Unless marketing found it and decided that it's better to remove the document explaining the limitations and let developers find out for themselves.

Well, it seems the article isn't free of sin either.

Re: Blatant attempt to drive traffic to a commercial site?

The national bodies are supposed to explain what this means for each nation, i.e. the ICO.

You've not heard of browser fingerprinting by looking at a whole set of variables not too dissimilar to what Canonical want?

If it's not opt-in then they could get into trouble.

Re: What PII?

@AC: For a start, it has to be opt-in because it's not "strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service requested by the subscriber or user".

Re: Why can't Elop take credit for his achievement?

The N9 was very finished and received excellent reviews where Elop deigned to release it.

Asha was S40 on steroids, not Symbian.

The Ovi/Nokia Store did have developers and apps and at that time had something no-one else did, operator charging in practically any country. Then the burning platform memo, Elop's support for Skype on WP, and a hatchet job on Nokia's logistics stopped all that.

Re: Why can't Elop take credit for his achievement?

Elop said in an interview that even if the N9 sells great, they wouldn't expand the roll-out to other markets or make a successor.

Can't find the link, but it shows you what he was up to.