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Speak for yourself …. tried the rest, went back to the best.

4 days ago on Jolla phone pictures 1 recommend

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Roaming data charges are huge in Europe – something like €450 per GB when in a foreign country. It’s free when travelling in Denmark and I think Ireland and Germany if you are using “3” as an ISP.

4 days ago on Verizon extends $60 and $70 prepaid plans to 2GB and 4GB of data

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Why do MS need Google and Apple apps to achieve critical mass for WP? The question was not about mobile computing, the point made was that “MS is missing a mobile component” which they clearly are not.

4 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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If you answer a question about the mobility of a music service by pointing out it isn’t available on rival mobile platforms, that’s fair enough. When it’s pointed out that those rival services don’t have apps for the other mobile platforms, you reply with a totally different argument to that which was on the table.

Xbox music is equally as mobile as Google music, as well as being available on the leading games console, desktops and tablets. Unlike Google music, there are full apps available for desktops/laptops – not just browser pages.

The question about market dominance has little to do with the mobility of the service.

5 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 1 reply

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$37 for 100GB of 4G throttled at 200kbs over 100GB in Sweden with free roaming in Denmark. And the girls are cuter too.

6 days ago on Verizon extends $60 and $70 prepaid plans to 2GB and 4GB of data 2 replies 7 recommends

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Meanwhile Google doesn’t have a Music app for iOS or WP and Apple doesn’t have an app for Android or WP. But that’s totally different isn’t it?

6 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 1 reply

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Bluetooth has changed in 5 years. Just because you can’t find a use for it, doesn’t mean it’s useless. When abroad and driving, I stream radio via Bluetooth to my car stereo at the same time as Navigon. Turn by turn instructions overrides the radio. Messages are read out using Bluetooth. I use it to play tunes with Jawbone’s Big Jambox at get togethers, and I use it to stream podcasts using A2DP to an earpiece. Couldn’t imagine a smartphone without Bluetooth, and pairing is a doddle. Yes, a doddle.

7 days ago on Will Google Glass create information heroes or new-wave Bluetooth dorks?

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So the same argument for Google play on WP and iOS and iTunes on Android and WP applies?

7 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service

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As posted above, it’s €4.99 here – Spotify is €9.99.

7 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 1 recommend

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It’s €4.99 in Europe.

7 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 1 recommend

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Go ahead. Go to a children’s playground. Take photos of kids. See if any parents respect your rights to do so ….

7 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you'

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Go ahead. Go to a children’s playground. Take photos of kids. See if any parents respect your rights to do so ….

7 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Think you’ll find I never said that I would beat another human for wearing a computer on their head. I said if they used it to film my child I’d stick it up their ass. Yup, life is mostly mundane, but there are genuine sickos out there who will use Glass to film kids, topless girls on beaches – heck just looking up a girl’s skirt whilst on an escalator. It’s easier to claim that you’re not recording when you’re wearing glass, than if you’re holding a camera to your eye.

If you can’t see the concerns some people have about the potential abuse possible with Glass, it’s because you don’t want to. If you can’t understand the potential confrontations it could produce …. well, I can’t explain that one.

Either way, first guy I catch looking at my kid whilst wearing Glass will think twice before trying it again….

7 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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You’re being pedantic. No matter what the law says, photographing people in public is a touchy subject – photographing children even more so. You said it yourself in a post last month – which is why you carry “The photographers rights” around with you, admitting that you had been harassed for shooting a building – imagine the emotions involved when dealing with a stranger photographing children.

Anyway, you’re just looking for an argument. My views are not uncommon – two replies to your own post say it best;

“It’s not so much about “rights” as much as it’s about “common decency”.

We each abide by a social contract to minimize actions which would offend reasonable members of society.

When this goes out the window you end up with freaks like the Westboro Baptist Church protesting at funerals because well… being a jerk isn’t against the law.

The same deal applies here. Sure, you’re well within your rights to shove a camera in someone’s face when they are in public, but it’s not very polite."

As well as someone else not to happy with the way some photographers use their right to take pictures of anybody without their consent;

“I don’t believe there is a law against violating personal space either but one should not be surprised if someone gives them a serious beating for doing so.

For example, as a photographer, I have no problems having my photo taken but I will react very quickly and most likely violently if someone sticks something into my face out of the blue. I’ve seen many photographers on the street do that. They will just walk right up to someone with the camera literally inches from their subjects face. If that were me, I’d use my camera and slam it into their face or into their hand. Either way, their bone will break and flesh gouged – not because I’m violent but because you forced me to react to intrusion against my persons."

Don’t think he’s too worried about the consequences of standing up for something he believes in either….

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 2 recommends

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It has changed. It’s half the price of Spotify, and offers streaming to my Desktop, 360 and Lumia 920 on the mobile side. All included in the monthly 4.99.

8 days ago on How Google beat Apple to a streaming music service 3 replies 3 recommends

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Jails are full. No Judge is going to send a protective Father to jail. Especially for reacting to someone filming children without the parent’s consent. I know the law, I know everyone has the right to take photos of my child in a public place, I honestly couldn’t care less. My paranoia stems from a guy my wife saw filming kids from the hip in a shopping mall. Because it was in a private mall, the Police were called, and the guy was arrested. He had thousands of images of children on his SD card, and a search of his house found indecent images of children on his PC.

Don’t worry, I’ll give the person fair warning of what will happen if he continues to quote his rights while taking pictures of my children.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Totally agree. It’s a lot harder to spot spy cameras etc and perverts will probably use something more concealed than Glass – however, my point is I have no way of knowing if the Glass user is filming, taking pictures or simply looking at a map. A camera user – even one on a smartphone – generally lifts the device to his point of view, presses the shutter (Normally resulting in a shutter sound or LED light) which makes it obvious what he/she is doing.

The fact that street photographers carry around a copy of the law stating they have the right to photograph anywhere and anything in a public place tells me they have faced hostile reactions already – so I don’t think my view is that extreme.

Who knows how Glass will pan out – I can see privacy issues (which is what this article is about) and I can see people reacting when they have no idea if they’re being filmed or not.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 recommend

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Depends which country you’re in I guess. Even in the States, you will likely receive a very hostile reaction for taking an adult’s photo without their permission – never mind a child. I don’t go in for the whole “I have the right to photograph whoever I want in public” claim – it’s a very blurred line, which is why Google blur people’s faces out in StreetView.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Tough to spot people with zoom lenses, people milling around playgrounds with Glass headsets on … not so tough.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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Someone photographing children in public is not a crime. You will however notice that it doesn’t happen very often, because parents won’t sit idly by quoting the photographer’s rights. They will – at the very least – demand to know why said photographer is taking pictures of their kids. They don’t give a damn what rights the photographer has, they will display a natural instinct to protect their offspring.

I’ll take the slap on the wrist from the law, and thank God I don’t live in the same lawsuit happy environment as you.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 1 reply 1 recommend

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….You mean except the camera, speakers, aesthetics, screen, and yes, battery life,

8 days ago on Samsung CEO claims Galaxy S4 will hit 10 million sales in under a month 1 reply 7 recommends

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Dang. I bet Nokia are kicking themselves that they aren’t competing with Sammy for Android sales ….

8 days ago on Samsung CEO claims Galaxy S4 will hit 10 million sales in under a month 1 reply 1 recommend

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When you grow up enough to have kids, and stand by while an unknown person records images or video of your kid, pat yourself on the back knowing you did the lawful thing.

I will alter anyone’s face who even remotely tries to video my kids without my permission. Public place or not.

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 4 replies 3 recommends

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Don’t care about human rights to wear one – I see someone near my kid with one, I’m going to do an instant relaunch of the product as Google Ass….

8 days ago on Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' 2 replies 3 recommends

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Who are YOU trying to kid? It’s half way through 2013 now, and you’re showing us a 2012 pie graph from a company that trains people to make Android apps?

9 days ago on Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry to claim third place in 2013 smartphone shipments 12 recommends

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What are you – a Star Trek scriptwriter?

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) 1 reply 2 recommends

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Like you really believe it would be a good idea to become yet another fish in the Android sea competing with Samsung’s money.

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) 2 replies 1 recommend

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….but wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing, reliable or smooth ….#fact 2.

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) 1 reply 1 recommend

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…unless you get the 32gb variant.

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on)

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Think I’ll wait to see what EOS has to offer too, but 1080p phone screens? Had an HTC One to play with for a day, and didn’t realise it was 1080p until I read your post…

11 days ago on Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on)