“The nightly riots began on Sunday in the north-western [Stockholm] suburb of Husby , a deprived, largely immigrant area. It is believed they were sparked by the death of a man nearly a week before, who was shot by police after he allegedly threatened to kill them with a machete.” [BBC]
AT&T’s new “Mobility Administrative Fee” is raising wireless bills by 61 cents a month — a move that could reportedly raise half a billion dollars for the company. [Read more]
The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. [Read more]
The Korean handset maker earned $5.1 billion of the $5.3 billion in global profits last quarter, says research firm Strategy Analytics. [Read more]
vikingpower writes “The winner of this year’s World Press Photo award, Paul l Hanssen, is under fire for allegedly having photoshopped the winning picture. The Hacker Factor is detailing the reasons and technicalities for the accusations. ExtremeTech also runs an item about the possible faking. Upon questions by Australian news site news.com.au, Hanssen answers his photo is not a fake. The whole story, however, is based upon somewhat thin proof: three different times in the file’s Adobe XMP block; this does not necessarily mean that more than one file was used in order to obtain a composite image.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Picass0 writes with distressing news from the AP wire, about the AP: “The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’ into how news organizations gather the news.” They obtained call records from a number of desk phones, and the personal phones of many news editors. The DOJ has not commented, but it may be related to the possibility that the CIA director leaked information on a foiled terror plot in Yemen last year. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Sockatume writes “The Sunday Times has revealed that analytics firm Ipsos MORI and 4G network EE attempted to sell detailed information on 27m subscribers’ activities to various parties including the UK’s police forces. The data encompasses the gender, postcode and age of subscribers, the sites they visit and times they are visited, and the places and times of calls and text messages. Ipsos MORI were reportedly ‘bragging that the data can be used to track people and their location in real time to within 100 meters’ in negotiations. Ipsos MORI has rushed to contradict this in an effort to save face, stating that the users are anonymized and data is aggregated into groups of 50 or more, while location is only precise to 700m. Despite their prior enthusiasm, the police have indicated that they will no longer go ahead with the deal. It is not clear whether the other sales will go ahead.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
The restructuring of the ailing TV maker includes pruning the global workforce and executives. [Read more]
The sales milestone is on par with the number of Windows 7 licenses sold in its first six months on the market. [Read more]
According to new data, 19 billion chat messages were sent each day last year, compared to 17.6 billion SMS messages. [Read more]
