Samsung answers the Apple Watch Digital Crown with a rotating, round bezel
By turning the bezel around the screen, you can scroll through lists, zoom in and out of photos, adjust the volume, select items arranged in a circle, input numbers, and so on.
Sonos Version 5.4 Now in Public Beta
Coming soon on Sonos – sound enhancements for the PLAY:1, simpler setup for home theater, and more (now in beta).
Woman files suit after getting fired for deleting app that tracked her location
Attorneys for Arias said her boss admitted her location would be monitored outside of business hours and bragged that he knew the speed she was driving at specific moments as a result of the app. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app’s GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours.
CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business
Armstrong: TechCrunch is not getting sold off. There will be editorial independence. And from a distribution and resource standpoint, it’s probably the most exciting deal we could have done.
I found the tracking thing most interesting… as my wife’s former boss wanted the staff to install some sort of collaboration app that included both messaging and location information. The app is always resident on the phone as presumably always running (unless it has configurable “business” hours – I don’t know, we didn’t get that far). And, in my wife’s case, this was requested on her personal phone. Her employer wasn’t going to provide a work phone nor cover her cell service. I think enough employees complained and not all had platforms the app ran on that the initiative dried up after a few weeks. But interesting. And invasive.
Another work phone scenario… For my job, I have a Sprint Galaxy S4. Except, I don’t actually have usable Sprint service in my home. So I turned off cell communication to ensure I can reliably access my corporate email via my personal WiFi. Which led to a note to my superiors that my phone hadn’t been used for weeks because it hadn’t registered on Sprint’s network. I suggested having it swapped for Verizon (and everyone knows how to reach me on my personal cell anyhow).
“I found the tracking thing most interesting… as my wife’s former boss wanted the staff to install some sort of collaboration app that included both messaging and location information. The app is always resident on the phone as presumably always running (unless it has configurable “business” hours – I don’t know, we didn’t get that far). And, in my wife’s case, this was requested on her personal phone.”
Wouldn’t a simpler solution be to just contract out 24/7 tracking of employees to the NSA, thus eliminating this annoying public awareness of the tracking? I’m sure the FISA court would go along.
So they were tracking your work phone to the point of knowing you didn’t have the cell radio turned on, but not enough to know that you were still using it. That’s good, maybe…?
Not really tracking per se – but they periodically review the Sprint billing reports or whatever I’m guessing, and mine showed no cellular usage.
I checked with my wife and we can’t remember the name of the app she was asked to use a year or so ago. Would have been interesting to look at.
I like the rotating bezel idea. Smart but simple.
P.S. There is a report online that Plex for TiVo is coming June 8th. Any confirmations?
I saw the same report and reached out to my PR contact at Plex (again) for some detail… So it’s clearly coming, but how it’s implemented remains to be seen. Even if somewhat limited, it’ll be a huge boon I’m thinking.