2014年5月28日星期三

Xamarin 3 Launches With UI Design Tool on behalf of iOS Apps, Cross-Platform Interface API And other

Xamarin 3 Launches With UI Design Tool on behalf of iOS Apps, Cross-Platform Interface API And other

Xamarin has protracted been solitary of the the majority trendy tools on behalf of building cross-platform itinerant applications and now, the company is taking a main step overconfident by launching version 3.0 of its service. The highlights of today’s liberation are the launch of Xamarin Designer on behalf of iOS, which can almost completely take the place of the Xcode interface engineer on behalf of deceitful iOS apps on Mac and Windows, and Xamarin.Forms, an API on behalf of building shared user interface code on behalf of iOS, robot and Windows Phone apps.

In the function of Xamarin head of the company and co-founder Nat Friedman told me, the service has without hesitation signed up finished 600,000 developers and he believes this is the paramount forever liberation of Xamarin yet.

Until without hesitation, the C#-centric Xamarin no more than obtainable its user interface designer on behalf of robot, but finished the live two years before so, the company worked on building an iOS version, in the function of well. Designer on behalf of iOS can run both taking part in Xamarin’s own Studio IDE and taking part in Visual Studio. It’s fully compatible with Apple’s own storyboard format and wires sedan arrange, too.

Taking part in Friedman’s vista, it’s better than Xcode taking part in many respects. He especially celebrated with the purpose of Designer skin tone other intuitive event usage, on behalf of case, and with the purpose of you can every time perceive a live preview of your custom controls with the purpose of aren’t solely approximations by pixel-perfect representations of the final result. The focal magnet, however, is observably with the purpose of Xamarin without hesitation allows developers on Windows to build iOS apps with no the need to operation a Mac.

Why did it take so protracted on behalf of Xamarin to launch this, agreed with the purpose of Designer on behalf of robot launched taking part in 2011? Friedman argued with the purpose of his team “took a very ambitions come up to by giving you this pixel-perfect design and we wanted to ensure with the purpose of while we launched, you might get something done this with Visual Studio and on Windows, too.”

Xamarin.Forms is and a main liberation on behalf of the company. Traditionally, Xamarin was every time a spot unique from other cross-platform development tools as it separated the single-mindedness logic from the interface. You might without difficulty share your application’s code flanked by platforms, but you would by and large develop a native interface on behalf of every one platform. In the function of Friedman clarification, though, several of Xamarin’s customers receive significant apps and don’t need to contact a contemporary user interface on behalf of every one screen on multiple platforms.

With Forms, they obtain an API with the purpose of gives them access to regarding 40 unique controls (think buttons, progress bars, sliders, and that.) with the purpose of are open across platforms (and they can and create their own controls). If you need to, you can and without difficulty mix and match flanked by using Xamarin.Forms and the native UI. While the app is compiled, Xamarin determination render the native code, and in attendance is nigh on veto performance penalty on behalf of using this API abstraction layer.

You might build a complete app using these controls, but Friedman expects with the purpose of this determination especially appeal to novice developers on its platform and companies with copious itinerant activity apps.

In the function of part of today’s bring up to date, the company is and tally support on behalf of building iOS and robot apps using the F# functional encoding language, in the function of well in the function of support on behalf of the .Remaining package management organism NuGet and Visual Studio 13′s Shared Projects on behalf of making cross-platform code sharing easier. Xamarin without hesitation and wires robot 4.4′s experimental sculpture runtime.

Taking part in addition to all of these updates, Xamarin and now announced with the purpose of it has acquired a division of Clarius Consulting, a Buenos Aires, Argentina-based company with the purpose of is a significant player taking part in the .Remaining consulting earth. Xamarin has acquired the knot with the purpose of does the majority of Clarius’ Visual Studio effort, and Friedman tells me with the purpose of the team determination without hesitation effort full-time on Xamarin’s products (Xamarin itself has veto advantage taking part in burden some consulting, Friedman stressed).



Apple to obtain Beats song & Beats Electronics

Apple to obtain Beats song & Beats Electronics

CUPERTINO, California—May 28, 2014—Apple® now announced it has agreed to obtain the critically acclaimed subscription streaming song service Beats song, and Beats Electronics, which makes the standard Beats headphones, speakers and audio software. In the function of part of the acquisition, Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre determination join Apple. Apple is acquiring the two companies in favor of a equal of $3 billion, consisting of a get fee of approximately $2.6 billion and approximately $400 million so as to determination vest concluded measure.

“Music is such an principal part of all of our lives and holds a special place surrounded by our hearts by Apple,” whispered Tim Cook, Apple’s president. “That’s why we get reserved investing in the field of song and are bringing unruffled these extraordinary teams so we can prolong to create the as a rule innovative song products and services in the field of the humanity.”

“I’ve every time recognized in the field of my focal point so as to Beats belonged with Apple,” whispered Jimmy Iovine. “The outline once we ongoing the company was inspired by Apple’s unequaled faculty to marry culture and equipment. Apple’s deep allegiance to song fans, artists, songwriters and the song industry is something special.”

Iovine has been by the forefront of innovation in the field of the song industry in favor of decades, and he has been an instrumental partner in favor of Apple and iTunes® in favor of other than a decade. He has produced before collaborated with a few of the as a rule unbeaten artists in the field of the history of the iTunes Store®, ration fit in it the world’s figure lone song retailer. Iovine and Dr. Dre are sound pioneers, artists and entrepreneurs.

Beats Electronics has brought the energy, emotion and excitement of playback in the field of the recording studio back to the listening experience and has introduced an entirely spanking generation to premium sound entertainment. Beats song was urban by a team of inhabitants who get both spent their intact career in the field of song and provides song fans with an incredible curated listening experience.

“Music is such an principal part of Apple’s genetic material and every time determination take place,” whispered whirlpool Cue, Apple’s senior subordinate president of Internet Software and Services. “The addition of Beats determination fit in our song lineup even better, from gratis streaming with iTunes broadcasting to a world-class subscription service in the field of Beats, and of course of action wholesale song from the iTunes amass in the function of customers get loved to get something done in favor of years.”

In the field of only this minute five years since launch, the Beats “b” has befall the brand of scale in the field of the song and sports worlds, and is the sell leader in the field of the premium earphone sell. Song superstars with woman Gaga, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj get designed their own customized Beats headphones and speakers. In thing designers and street artists such in the function of Alexander Wang, Futura and Snarkitecture get collaborated on special restricted products, while renowned athletes with LeBron James, Serena Williams and Neymar help Beats in the function of a significant part of their training and game daylight process. Beats has quickly befall part of pop culture in the field of the US and with the acquisition the Beats item for consumption lineup determination take place unfilled in the field of many other countries through the Apple Online amass, Apple’s retail provisions and cliquey Apple Authorized Resellers.

Subject matter to regulatory approvals, Apple expects the transaction to close in the field of fiscal Q4.

Formally established in the field of 2008 in the function of the brainchild of legendary actor and producer Dr. Dre and Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records Jimmy Iovine, Beats Electronics (Beats) comprises the Beats by Dr. Dre ancestors of premium consumer headphones, earphones, and speakers in the function of well in the function of patented Beats Audio software equipment and streaming song subscription service Beats song. Through these offerings, Beats has effectively brought the energy, emotion and excitement of playback in the field of the recording studio to the listening experience and has introduced an entirely spanking generation to the possibilities of premium sound entertainment.

Beats song is a subscription streaming song service so as to focuses on if a custom-made song experience in favor of both user through a unique blend of digital innovation and musical passion. Automatic by a trusted team of well-respected song experts with concluded 300 years of experience across all genres, Beats song delivers the upright song in favor of some position, some measure, and some preference, custom-made to your tastes. The consequence is an artist-friendly digital song service so as to does other than simply offer access to song, but lone so as to establishes an emotional connection to it in the function of well.

Apple designs Macs, the greatest delicate computers in the field of the humanity, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and licensed software. Apple leads the digital song revolution with its iPods and iTunes online amass. Apple has reinvented the portable phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App amass, and is significant the yet to come of portable media and computing procedure with iPad.



2014年5月26日星期一

A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox’s Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin’s set a price?

A Bot Named Willy: Did Mt. Gox’s Automated Trading Pump Bitcoin’s set a price?

In attendance is extra speculation at the moment with the purpose of bitcoin’s November 2013 well up and Mt. Gox’s trading volume’s were built arrived part on sham trading commotion – specifically via a bot with the purpose of serious traders partake of dubbed “Willy”

Bitcoin’s set a price on Mt. Gox rocketed from around $200 arrived early on November to its $1,236 all-time summit on 4th December, exciting early on adopters and causing analysts to make for into fits concluded the cause: Was it Chinese speculation on with the purpose of country’s fee-free exchanges? Before perhaps a bunch flight to digital currency next its resistance to government seizure was celebrated in the course of the Silk Road concern?

The ‘Willy Report‘, a one-post default-themed WordPress put, gives a detailed rundown of the alleged bots’ trading commotion from around September to the outcome of November 2013.

The mystery traders

According to the blog’s writer, a trader who analyzed publicly-released logs from the measure, trading bots ran rampant through the coordination under various user IDs, with solitary dubbed “Willy” with the purpose of placed repetitive buy-only commands with the purpose of until the end of time manipulated the set a price upward.

A new bot, dubbed “Markus”, appears to partake of bought and sold next to completely random prices, paying zilch trading fees. Both Willy and Markus were the majority full of life straight away in advance and in the course of November 2013, while bitcoin’s set a price suddenly headed moonward.

The analysis is based on data leaked to the known on 9th stalk this day, which incorporated details of all trades on Mt. Gox connecting April 2011 and November 2013. Veto data since with the purpose of phase is at this time open, though in attendance are undependable reports of commotion matching with the purpose of of Willy and Markus next December.

To November, the two trading entities bought a add up to of 570,000 BTC, an adequate amount to partake of an blow on set a price. Was bitcoin’s worth arrived too late 2013 even not as much of inherent than sneering anti-crypto trade and industry analysts partake of claimed?

Who were they?

Speculation at this instant cataract on whether the commotion is the findings of outside hackers gaming the coordination in favor of profit (like Mt. Gox head of the company sign Karpeles’ claims) before an inside activity, representing the interests of the (very) a small number of live in with access to the exchange’s innards?

Both bots were amid the 500 highest-volume users on Mt. Gox, whose activities are graphed now. Willy and Markus correspond to the two the majority abnormal trading charts, #281 ‘Greater Fools’ and #15 ‘Glitch arrived the System’ in that order.

Markus repeatedly appears to spent the same low amount of money (around $15) veto be significant how considerable the trade, suggesting data arrived with the purpose of province is misleading before non-existent.

Unexpected records

Funny patterns arrived the two trading entities’ exchange behaviour are compounded by suspicious details arrived their user registration data. Willy had no more than ‘??’ listed in favor of a nation code while all other accounts were specialized. Markus’ location was listed seeing that ‘Japan’, and both had ID informationtion unusually summit compared to other users’.

The Willy entity was and unaffected by Mt. Gox’s downtimes, continuing to bargain connecting 10-20 BTC all 5-10min even next to epoch while the argument was non-functional to regular users, leading the blog author to conclude:

 ”This makes it likely the bot was being run from a neighboring Mt. Gox wine waiter. It is not not viable with the purpose of a hacker was able to install certain kind of rootkit on Mt. Gox’s servers and ran the bot from in attendance, but with the purpose of seems particularly implausible.”

The everyday author of Willy boom does not end much esteem to the outside hacker theory. Willy’s balance is absent from the balance rushed leaked next to the measure of Gox’s collapse arrived February, and Markus’ is no more than 20 BTC. In attendance achieve not appear to happen several withdrawals to match the considerable trades.

Details of Markus’ commotion is curiously corrected arrived a separate, anonymized version of Mt. Gox’s trade data from April 2013 with the purpose of matched the leaked version arrived all other way. The entity’s ID run to and appears arrived with the purpose of version seeing that ’634′ – the ID connected to sign Karpeles.

Alleged manipulative trading commotion on Mt. Gox had been a talk detail amid serious traders watching the argument even back arrived 2013, and was apparently incorrigible as soon as the trade data was leaked.

The Willy boom author and suggests symbols of suspicious commotion arrived the clue up to bitcoin’s to begin with mainstream attention-grabbing run, arrived April 2013.

Trusting exchanges

As soon as again, dark clouds partake of gathered, not around the bitcoin interact itself, but around the centralized gateways guarding the on- and off-ramps connecting it and the bequest pecuniary coordination.

Such businesses partake of operated mostly sour the deter series and are inherently trust-based, functioning effectively seeing that unofficial and uninsured banks. With developers and executives from the knowledge earth to be more precise than the pecuniary, they partake of been accused of everything from incompetence to spite in advance their funds simply vanish – often along with the businesses’ owners.

A trustless crypto-based payment coordination still relies greatly on trusted wires. Extra often than not, these ‘trusted supports’ are free, from this time they charm unprincipled traders and speculators.

Individuals arrived the pro-regulation camp detail to the inherent weakness of free exchanges seeing that solitary of the biggest problems facing bitcoin, but directive remains a controversial subject matter arrived the bitcoin cooperative spirit and in attendance is veto empty consensus on I beg your pardon? Be supposed to before might happen through to stamp not permitted abuse.



Belgium Desperately Seeking Cybersecurity Czar

Belgium Desperately Seeking Cybersecurity Czar

On the tail finish of a streak 2013, Belgium’s government strong-willed it had had a sufficient amount. The decision to conventional up a cybersecurity agency followed a chain of high-profile incidents, plus the hacking of the country’s biggest telecom operator, Belgacom SA, and the leak to a newspaper of a recording containing the prime minister’s not public emails.

With a €10 million ($13.6 million) finances earmarked, the Centre pour la cybersécurité Belgique (CCB) was inescapable to exist up and running taking part in the number one partially of this day.

It’s right now almost the finish of possibly will, the hub is not operational, veto chief has been chosen and Belgium has been hacked again.

Since an EU and NATO portion, Belgium’s vulnerability to cyberattacks is a cause intended for anxiety.

Treatment to the prime minister’s workforce, the as-of-yet nonfunctioning cybersecurity hub is to “supervise and oversee the implementation of cybersecurity, plus emergency management taking part in the lawsuit of incidents…and offer a platform to coordinate all the partners concerned.”

And in attendance are a plight of concerned parties with the purpose of need to exist coordinated. Five, to exist exact.

These include BIPT, the telecom supervisor, which is answerable intended for Internet and telecom networks; the police’s Federal workstation Crime organization; Fedict (the government’s IT service); the Belgian State Security Service (VSSE); and the Belgian Armed Forces.

Intended for its different cybersecurity agency, the Belgians desire employ all of 10 make somewhere your home (the forces is recruiting 10 cyberdefense specialists of its own) to coordinate the various groups and agencies involved taking part in tackling cybercrime taking part in the oft-hacked realm of 11 million.

To set things taking part in perspective, the Brussels-based think tank Security & plea Agenda writes taking part in a register with the purpose of France’s cybersecurity agency, the Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI), “appears to exist understaffed” with around 230 employees.  The think tank says the U.K.’s workforce of Cyber Security & in a row poise (OCSIA) employs 700 make somewhere your home, and Germany’s Bundesamt für Sicherheit taking part in der Informationstechnik (BSI), before Federal workforce intended for in a row Security, has 550 employees.

But the hiring process, and the the system of the cybercenter has taken longer than expected—not slightest as of wage negotiations. Employees of the Belgian state, since taking part in nearly all countries, are paid according to a fixed level.

But to draw top candidates intended for the prestigious role of director of cybersecurity, a competitive salary essential exist to be had.

According to a person familiar with the strategy intended for the hub, the director desire likely earn the A5 salary with 20 years’ experience intended for a standard Belgian civil servant—enough to draw a “smart engineer…who wants to figure out something intended for their realm,” the person believed.

With the purpose of moving parts not at home to on the order of €120,000 a day, roughly $163,000.

To set with the purpose of taking part in perspective, private-sector chief information-security officers around the earth can direct salaries of $350,000 to $1 million a day.

The search intended for candidates be supposed to soon exist under way.

Corrections & Amplifications

The likely yearly salary intended for the Belgian director of cybersecurity moving parts not at home to on the order of €120,000. An earlier version of this job incorrectly believed it was on the order of €87,000.



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2014年5月23日星期五

The lead to choosing a content calendar: Tools, templates, tips and supplementary

The lead to choosing a content calendar: Tools, templates, tips and supplementary

Organize you know could you repeat that? You’re redeployment, sharing, and blogging this Thursday?

How not far off from two Thursdays from at the moment? Thursday of subsequently month? Thursday of subsequently time?

We don’t arrange things figured unfashionable quite to with the aim of extreme at this point by the side of shield, but we organize arrange particular aim of what’s further on. (Those of you who are yearly planners, our hat’s inedible to you!) Planning content far into the opportunity is a nothing special element of many marketing strategies, and the erstwhile content calendar—in its many shapes and forms—fits this role seamlessly.

Could you repeat that? Calendar organize you apply in favor of your social media marketing and content design?

We hear a batch of notice now calendars from our cooperation, so I dug around to obtain particular of the top tools and templates in favor of premium and released content calendars, having the status of well having the status of the elements with the aim of become a upright one—the who, could you repeat that?, as soon as, someplace, and why of planning unfashionable content a week-at-a-time, month-at-a-time, or else year-at-a-time. Here’s could you repeat that? I exposed.

The psychological entice of a visual content calendar

We recently held a webinar with the team by the side of Twitter, and integrated now the webinar slidedeck was a slide of a content calendar. This slide was a large have an adverse effect on with each person who motto it, and our cooperation wanted to know: Could you repeat that? Is this calendar and someplace can I obtain it?

Turns unfashionable, the calendar was a short time ago a graphic. However, the fascination of with the aim of graphic got us to thinking: Could you repeat that? Made the calendar slide so appealing?

I found a combine psychological theories with the aim of might explain why.

1. Calendars succeed having the status of mental models, viewing us something familiar to help us comprehend something grueling

At the moment, I’m not saw with the aim of blogging or else cheeping is grueling, apiece se. But expressively, we arrange a much easier instant thinking not far off from content as soon as it’s leaning to us having the status of a calendar.

As soon as we imagine our succeed laid unfashionable now a calendar, we obtain it to be located much supplementary handy. The familiarity of the calendar minimizes the trouble of our succeed and as a substitute makes it exciting and fresh and fun—and we’re moved to keep by the side of it.

2. A trouble-free, visual calendar greatly lowers its perceived trouble

Cost-benefit analysis says with the aim of our behavior is influenced by how at ease or else grueling we perceive an dogfight to be located. An easy-looking calendar is supplementary likely to reward a assured, visceral reaction—as we veteran as soon as we showed each person the calendar graphic now the webinar.

Hick’s Law is like. According to this law, we take longer to stretch to a decision as soon as we are faced with supplementary options. The Twitter calendar was trouble-free, clean, and gave inedible the manifestation of a small amount of options, which may well explain its popularity.

These theories might be located supportive to keep now mind as soon as you’re choosing a content calendar of your own. Obtain single with the aim of is familiar, trouble-free, and easy-to-use, and you’ll be located supplementary likely to stick with it.

Three ways a calendar can develop your content design

We apply a type of content calendar at this point by the side of shield, and based on conversations with other content creators and social media marketers, it’s plain to imagine why thinking now calendar provisions can be located so supportive and why symbols down your plot can be located beneficial. At this point are three of the remuneration:

1. Take a bird’s-eye perceive of your content and fill now some gaps

A content calendar gives you just starting out perspective both now the way you think not far off from your content and now the way you imagine your content. You dig up to examine your updates, sharing, and blog posts from a 10,000-foot perceive, someplace you can’t help but notice the large picture.

It’s at ease to dig up lost now details as soon as you’re now the heads-down process of content design, so having a bigger visioning session to create the calendar plus taking regular peeks by the side of the calendar once upon a time it’s made can help bring your succeed into context.

2. Plot and organize around enter measures, dates, and launches

Arrange you yet had an event sneak up on you? I’ve been near otherwise, and now the wacky flash to make content in favor of the event, I kinda wished I had in black and white it down on a calendar.

As soon as you plot your content well now advance, you can prep and organize around the enter dates with the aim of may well influence your content. Having the status of you’ll imagine underneath, many large brands plot unfashionable far further on to cover the returning measures and main dates with the aim of seem to crop up by the side of the same instant each time.

3. Ensure sufficient of prep instant to dig up content arrange to issue

Working further on on blog posts is my guilty pleasure. (I don’t know why I need to feel guilty not far off from it, but I organize.) Calendars help me imagine what’s advent up so I can carve unfashionable instant now my schedule to dig up further on.

Pam Moore calls this the drumbeat verge on to content development. Jamie Griffiths, symbols by the side of satisfy and Convert, describes the effect this has on stability and expertise:

Now broad-spectrum the advance further on you plot your digital content publishing the better placed you are to make a unswerving gush of content with the aim of builds your brand’s perceived expertise now your chosen subject matter areas.

Ought to you arrange a weekly, monthly, or else yearly calendar? Of course.

CoSchedule, makers of a handy-dandy WordPress editorial calendar plugin, advise with the aim of a upright calendar design process include a handful of diverse timeframes. Their three-step process goes like this:

Start with an twelve-monthly re-examine
Open collecting ideas
Plug the content into monthly calendars
The objective of the process is to think big-picture not far off from the content you create and share. It’s like to the heads-up/heads-down verge on I mentioned over. You need to pick your supervisor up each at the moment and again to imagine someplace you’re headed.

Ought to your calendar include blog content or else social media content? Of course.

Near is rebuff abuse way to build a content calendar.

Having the status of you’ll imagine now the tools underneath, particular calendars include both blog posts and social media updates. Depending on the way your marketing team is position up, you can verge on calendars from some digit of diverse ways.

Many content strategies open with marketing personas, and the messages of the content align to fit diverse needs and customers. Identifying these diverse audience types command likely lead the way your calendar lays unfashionable. In favor of exemplar, our shield content might be located 80 percent social media tips, 10 percent shield tips, and 10 percent artifact announcements.

The subsequently step is deciding could you repeat that? Types of content you can place into your calendar, counting blog posts and social media updates. At this point is a slant of content you may well consider count:

Regular blog posts
Social media updates
Returning posts, chain, or else themes
Photos
Videos
Issue studies
Infographics
Charts
E-books
Company news and announcements
Artifact launches
Industry measures
Seasonal content
(We arrange a batch of supportive posts on the optimal frequency in favor of redeployment content, too.)

You can likely obtain even supplementary ideas on could you repeat that? Types of content to add as soon as you consider all the many diverse ways you can repurpose content. Create slide decks from existing articles, compose e-books based on ancient times stories, tap the expertise of your coworkers, and so on.

And the calendar customizations don’t block up near. Now addition to the types of content you’ll include, you possibly will besides opt to arrange other in rank on every piece. Now a worksheet calendar, this in rank often appears now the columns beside the rendezvous and content. Marketing Nutz has a large slant of categories to consider as soon as you’re putting calm your calendar:

Blog advertise title
Social media bring up to date replica
Target audiences (primary, secondary & tertiary)
Author
Editor
Get cycle (awareness, consideration, preference, get, loyalty)
Drawn from a keg due rendezvous
Primary keywords (5-10)
Categories
Underneath image(s)
Other underneath media (image, capture on tape, podcast)
Embed now other resource kits or else publications
Syndication
Doable whitepaper (y/n)
Client testimonial / graphics
Mingle all these diverse factors, and it’s at ease to imagine how a content calendar can take hundreds of diverse forms. Obtain the form that’s justified in favor of you—detailed or else token, weekly or else monthly, and so on.—and start working it.