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Mo’ Data Mo’ Problems

 The most exciting promise of Big Data—and if you hate that term, you’re not alone, but I think we’re stuck with it now—is this: the data collection happening on an increasingly gargantuan scale, parsed by modern data-processing and pattern-recognition algorithms, will unearth powerful new insights into our world and, especially, human behavior. Unfortunately this is… Read More

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Industry voice: How to remove your data from the internet

Nearly 90 years after his death, Harry Houdini is still revered for escaping a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a crane, and living to tell about being buried alive and submerged in water. He was the master of removing himself from one seemingly impossible situation after another.However, if alive today and asked to help businesses remove a digital footprint from the Internet, even he might look at the stunt with a sceptical eye.Removing data from the Internet has been made a bit easier with a recent court ruling where Google is obliged to remove certain search results as long as an individual requests their information to be omitted from search results. But it doesn't guarantee that content is completely removed; it just makes finding negative content a little bit harder.The potential certainly exists for employees' online habits to prove problematic for their employers. A recent GFI survey found that one-third (33%) of small business employees use social networks for personal reasons while working.Using search engines to do background research has become routine in all walks of life. Googling a job applicant is practically the first order of business for hiring managers. Online reputation management, for professional and social reasons, is essential in today's digital world.Reclaiming your online reputation is time-consuming and a test of patience. Requesting the online publisher remove the content in question is a good first step (though most websites aren't legally obligated to acquiesce). Deleting accounts with social media giants Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter is another logical move.High cost of customer lossOne of the top priorities for any business is protecting its reputation. The speed with which information travels on the web can be a big help in achieving this goal – or a giant hindrance. It all depends on the content being disseminated.A hit to reputation, warranted or otherwise, can leave businesses scrambling to retain customers and recoup lost revenue. According to Accenture, $5.9 trillion consumer dollars are annually up for grabs globally as dissatisfied customers change suppliers. To that end, 28% of customers said comments posted to social media sites factor into their buying decisions.Preventative measurePreventing these problems is best achieved by being proactive. Certain email archiving solutions can extract key bits of data from corporate email, which may provide insight into workforce morale.Of course, there's no substitute for maintaining an "open-door policy." Businesses benefit from owners, executives and managers who routinely communicate with employees. It reinforces the notion that everyone's opinion, effort and commitment to the company is valued. It also stands to reason that employees who feel appreciated are less likely to talk negatively about their employer, or risk publicly embarrassing themselves out of concern for the company's well-being.At the end of the day, though, businesses should focus on controlling their own content, specifically the volume of it. A popular and affordable method for burying unwanted information is to pump out positive content (and optimise online profiles) that tips search results in your favour.Even if remotely true, bad press for businesses can be extremely difficult to remove from the Internet. But just as Houdini achieved with his vanishing elephant act, it's possible to make online content disappear – from view, anyway.Sergio Galindo is the general manager of the Infrastructure Business Unit at GFI Software.

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Fighting Talk: Twitter's app-scanning is the price you pay for free

Twitter announced yet another way it wants to try to make us hate it more than Facebook this week, revealing a plan to make the mobile app more invasive than ever. From the company that brought you Scan And Upload My Address Book we now have a weird app-monitoring system that promises to rifle through our mobiles to see what apps we've got on them, then serve us stuff related to our app collections. By which it means the "app graph" facility will be looking to see if you've got a Batman game installed on your phone, so it can hammer you with ads for similar mainstream entertainment products in your timeline, therefore making yet more money out of its users by better tailoring the ads it serves.Obviously there was an uproar from tech-aware consumers over this move, with the sort of people who actually pay attention to app permissions claiming this invasion of privacy is roughly equal to the NSA installing a camera behind their bedroom mirrors so it can have them arrested in the night should they have looks on their faces that hint at some sort of troublemaking.But what do you expect? By signing up to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any of the modern social networks, what you're basically doing is agreeing to generate content for them for free, work for free, and waive all rights to any sort of say in what happens and how they manage you. That's what you are. You're a free labourer, churning out the pages, generating the opinions and photographs that fill the internet, for free, often on your own work time, so someone else can make money out of your words and photos for their shareholders. You clicked a thing saying everything about this arrangement is completely OK with you when creating the account, so their arses are covered. Your time is their money. It's not really a shock that these social media moguls are looking to tweak the process so it suits them better. That's just them doing their job. And you desperately spamming out first-draft opinions in the hope of gathering retweets and magicking more page impressions out of nowhere for your corporate overlords is your (unpaid intern) job.Checkboxes for free How much is your Twitter account worth to you? If they said you had to wear a camera on your head in order to keep your hard-won 272 followers, would you? Would you pay £1 a month for it? Probably not, so they've got to make enough money to pay for the cat photo hosting somehow. You've got to give them something back in return for having the luxury of free stuff that works. Facebook has built a network that means you don't have to phone your mum as often as you used to. It's invaluable. Twitter entertains you and fills you with news, while also perhaps offering the chance to briefly interact with a famous person should you suck up to them well enough, collecting RTs and favourites as your mum once collected autographs from men subsequently convicted of historic sex offences. Without the social networks and their various money harvesting systems, the internet would be boring. You could quit your Twitter account in disgust over it wanting to look at your phone in the manner of a suspicious partner, but then what would you do? Bookmark your favourite accounts and read them manually? Just shrug and carry on. Say yes to everything. It's only the awkward people who say "no" that go on the surveillance programmes.

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In Depth: 20 top iOS 8 tips and tricks

iOS 8 tips and tricks: 1-10Apple's mobile department has finally got its house in order with the release of iOS 8.1.1. Issues like battery drain and sluggish performance on older devices have been resolved, so it's now safer than ever to pull the trigger on that iOS 8 download you've been putting off.Once you've updated, you'll get to enjoy features like interactive notifications and camera time-lapse mode. But there's a whole lot else going on in iOS 8 that you might not know about, which is why we've put together these 20 tips for you to get the most out of your souped-up device.Before your update, back up your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to iCloud or iTunes like this: with your device attached to your computer, hit the check for update button in the version tab of iTunes, or simply tap into settings > general > software update on the device in question, then we'll meet you back here with twenty of the top tips and tricks for iOS 8.1. Hey SiriWhen your device is plugged in and charging, you can invoke Siri by voice alone without going near the home button. Just say 'Hey Siri' and the personal assistant will ding in response, and you can ask your question as normal. Siri's constant listening for the command means the mic has to be active at all times, so it stands to reason that it won't work when your device is running on battery.2. Private web searchesSafari now supports privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, notable for its policy of never tracking search terms or logging users. To bypass Google and use it as your default engine, choose to settings > Safari > search engine > DuckDuckGo. 3. Customise Notification CentreOpen the Notification Centre by dragging down from the top of the screen and scroll down to the edit button at the bottom of the today view. Using this option you can choose whether or not to display traffic conditions, calendar, reminders, and more besides. Check back whenever you install apps that add their own widgets to the list. 4. Do not disturbYou can now mute specific message threads on a single device in the messages app. Open it up, select the conversation that irks you, tap on details and slide do not disturb to on. When you're feeling a little more sociable, remember to turn the option back off or you won't hear from that conversation thread on this device again.5. Hide select photosNot too proud of a photo on your device but reluctant to delete it? There's an option for that. Open the photos app, find the photo in question, tap on it and hold. Tap hide in the pop-up menu that appears and the photo will vanish from your collection, moments and years galleries. (Shhh! It's now tucked away in the album named hidden.) 6. What song is this?Shazam has linked up with Siri so that you can now ask the personal assistant to identify what music is currently playing: simply activate Siri and ask, 'what song is this?' and you'll be treated to an answer, as well as a link to the iTunes Store should you want to purchase the track. 7. New favourite sitesApple has turned bookmarks into favourites on iPhones running iOS 8. To add a site to your favourites, tap the Safari's search bar and pull down to access the option add to favourites. Now you'll be able to find the that website in the same drop down whenever you tap the address bar.8. Delete iCloud Safari tabsYou can now get rid of Safari browser tabs open on any device linked to your Apple ID – not only the device you're using. Simply tap the + option in the bottom right of Safari's interface and scroll to the bottom to find all currently open tabs listed by device; slide a finger left across any open tab and select delete to close it remotely.9. Camera focus and exposureThe camera app has been tweaked to enable you to choose a manual exposure level as you snap. Open the camera app and tap on the screen to choose a focus in the frame, then simply slide your finger up or down to the right of the focus square to increase/decrease the exposure level. Get more from your iPhone 6's cameraiOS 8 tips and tricks: 10-2010. Quick Contacts accessDouble-click the home button to bring up the multi-tasking screen and you'll notice a row of circular icons along the top of your open apps. These are your recent contacts, and tapping on one will reveal the following options: call mobile, call home, message and FaceTime. To have favourite contacts appear when you swipe to the right on this screen, open the Phones app, select favourites and tap the + icon to add contacts.11. Email notificationsBeing notified of every email you receive gets annoying after a while. Happily, in iOS 8 you can opt to be notified about specific email threads only. Open the email in question, tap the flag icon and select notify me, confirm the selection and you're done. To turn off notifications, simply repeat the process and choose stop notifying.12. Hide QuickType predictionsQuickType's suggestions are cool if you like that sort of thing. If you don't, feel free to hide them. Swipe down on the grey suggestion boxes and they collapse out of sight into a slim grey bar. If you miss them, just swipe up to get your suggestions back. To get rid of QuickType completely, go to settings > general, select keyboard, and swipe the toggle beside predictive to the white position.13. Reopen closed Safari tabsDid you just close a tab by accident? Don't fret. You can now reopen closed tabs by tapping the tabs button, bottom right of Safari's interface, and tap-holding the + symbol. Tap the tab you wish to re-open from the recently closed tabs list that appears. 14. Use Desktop sitesOccasionally you'll find the mobile version of your favourite website is a functionless shell of the one you're used to browsing from your desktop. A great touch in iOS 8 is that you can tap on the URL and swipe down to choose the new option request desktop site.15. Straighten a photoIf you snapped a picture that's a bit off kilter, you can quickly correct it in iOS 8. Open the photo, tap the crop symbol and a dial appears below the image. Turn it until the overlay lines up horizontally with your picture and tap done.16. Undelete a photoDid you delete a photo you wished you hadn't? No problem - images can be undeleted up to 30 days after they were banished. Simply go to the recently deleted folder in the photos app, select the image and tap recover.17. Minimise an emailYou can now temporarily hide an email you're composing by dragging down from the top of the new message window. This is handy if you need to check another email but don't want to close the one you've just started. To return to the new message, simply tap the bar at the bottom of the screen and it reappears. 18. Reclaim battery lifeWe mentioned battery drain at the beginning of this article. If you're still suffering symptoms, go to settings > general > usage and select battery usage. You can now browse which apps are guilty of sucking away the most battery life, and you may even receive suggestions about how you can save more battery power.Keep your iPhone battery powered for longer with these tips and tricks19. Send an audio messageSending snappy audio clips to friends is simple. In the messages app, touch and hold the microphone symbol alongside the text box. Record your clip, and swipe up when you're done - the audio is now being sent. 20. More tipsDip into the extras folder and you'll find a light bulb app in there. Open it to discover even more tips for using iOS 8, curated by Apple and updated weekly. As usual you can't delete Apple's app, but at least you can turn off notifications from it by going to settings > notifications > tips.

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Analysis: Television has to embrace our second screen habit

Second screening is officially a growing trend, with a number of us choosing to split our focus between our television and another device. And yet, the television industry remains in flux at how to best use this trend to its advantage. In the UK the BBC is not only prominent on Twitter and Facebook, but also increasingly on upcoming social networks like Snapchat and Instagram, but even this traditional TV trailblazer has the limitations of its remit to consider. Twitter is actively encouraging television talent and shows to engage the audience in new ways, Shazam has evolved from a way to name and buy that tune to an engagement tool, and ideas in this particular growth area range from the brilliant to the batty. This week saw the Westminster eForum gather to discuss the rising tide of second or dual-screening and ask whether it is a threat or a boon for the television companies. And broadly speaking, as analyst Simon Terrington said, the answer is obviously 'both'. "Television is still the screen that we would miss the most, but phones [are] increasingly important and tablets and computers are growing as well," he said. "There are two views when you think of social media, firstly this is where the industry is going and if we don't embrace it we'll be left behind, lose the young and better off people and be left with older less well-off people. "The other view social media is a different business - it's just communication and people have always talked about TV it's just happening in a different way."Tweet all about itAs you would expect, other expert speakers including Dan Biddle, who is head of TV partnerships for Twitter UK, and Shazam's Iain Dendle, are very much on the side of the first view, believing that being part of the conversation with the audience is crucial. "There's a flicking of the eyes between the first screen and the second this has been called meerkatting. When I was at BBC we worried about splitting people's attention and asked 'are we taking them away from the first screen' - but as we've said that is already happening whether it's the ironing or something else. "It's not split attention, it's double attention. We have data that shows that people who are tweeting are far more engaged with the messages that come out of that TV show." Biddle went on to give examples of how social is radically changing some aspects of TV, telling an anecdote of Richard Curtis wandering the streets of Shepherd's Bush peering in windows during one of the first broadcasts of Blackadder to see if his new show would be popular - something that could now be cut out by Twitter conversations. "The fact that [second screening means] we can see audience and know it is there means you can connect with that audience." Dendle and Shazam aim to add even more engagement by allowing viewers to use their devices, listen to the audio on a show or even an advert and quickly enter a rich interactive environment. "An advert for Jaguar we did... brought engagement from one percent of the audience of the program it appeared in", he told the room. That's a phenomenal number of people, although it is difficult to judge how many people went on to buy a car. What was abundantly clear from the talk was that there is no shortage of ideas as to how TV should tap into our 'meerkatting' but that they must be prepared to embrace a new and complicated market in order to enhance our experience and earn more engagement.

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‘Mockingjay’ Flies Away With Black Friday $$, Leaves Turkey Bones For ‘Penguins’, ‘Bosses’

In her second Friday, Katniss has built up a blazing force field at No. 1 that no Penguin or Horrible Boss would even think about crossing.  In late night estimates, Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is looking to count an estimated $24.4M from the Thanksgiving B.O. hunt, and while that figure is down 55% from the threequel's opening day (with previews) from a week ago, it was up 121% over its turkey day returns of $11.05M. Everyone was too full to go…

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