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Jak włączyć raporty doręczenia SMS`ów w iPhonie?

Autor wpisu: Paweł Cebula, tekst pochodzi ze strony: Applemania.pl

Wśród wad wymienianych na niekorzyść iPhone’a padały tak prozaiczne zarzuty jak np. brak możliwości włączenia raportów doręczenia wiadomości SMS. Można było kombinować z kodami dodawanymi na początku wiadomości, ale nie było to zbyt wygodne. Teraz istnieje możliwość włączenia raportów!

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Imprisoned Journalists: We Were Violently Dragged to North Korea

“AFTER WE WERE detained, the two of us made every effort to limit the repercussions of our arrest. In the early days of our confinement, before we were taken to Pyongyang, we were left for a very brief time with our belongings. With guards right outside the room, we furtively destroyed evidence in our possession by swallowing notes and damaging videotapes.”

This is a small part of a lengthy statement released a few hours ago by Laura Ling and Euna Lee since they were released from North Korea prison. It’s their first statement since their ordeal, and although they leave out many details, it’s still gut-wrenching.

For those who may not be familiar with the story: Laura Ling and Euna Ling, journalists for Current TV were captured, detained, interrogated, and more by the North Korean government near the border between China and North Korea. They were sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. However, intervention from President Bill Clinton helped secure the release of the journalists.

The statement, which we have included below in its entirety, reveal how they “violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base” and were sent to Pyongyang for interrogation and “trial.”

Clearly, the ordeal has been emotionally traumatic on the duo. So much so that they repeatedly state that parts of it are “too painful to revisit” and are thus not part of the statement. They do talk about how they ate their notes and protected their sources, coping with five months of captivity, and more.

Here is the entire emotional statement. Please note that it is lengthy:

“WE ARRIVED AT the frozen river separating China and North Korea at 5 o’clock on the morning of March 17. The air was crisp and still, and there was no one else in sight. As the sun appeared over the horizon, our guide stepped onto the ice. We followed him.

We had traveled to the area to document a grim story of human trafficking for Current TV. During the previous week, we had met and interviewed several North Korean defectors, women who had fled poverty and repression in their homeland, only to find themselves living in a bleak limbo in China. Some had, out of desperation, found work in the online sex industry; others had been forced into arranged marriages. Now our guide, a Korean Chinese man who often worked for foreign journalists, had brought us to the Tumen River to document a well-used trafficking route and chronicle how the smuggling operations worked.

There were no signs marking the international border, no fences, no barbed wire. But we knew our guide was taking us closer to the North Korean side of the river. As he walked, he began making deep, low hooting sounds, which we assumed was his way of making contact with North Korean border guards he knew. The previous night, he had called his associates in North Korea on a black cellphone he kept for that purpose, trying to arrange an interview for us. He was unsuccessful, but he could, he assured us, show us the no-man’s land along the river, where smugglers pay off guards to move human traffic from one country to another.

When we set out, we had no intention of leaving China, but when our guide beckoned for us to follow him beyond the middle of the river, we did, eventually arriving at the riverbank on the North Korean side. He pointed out a small village in the distance where he told us that North Koreans waited in safe houses to be smuggled into China via a well-established network that has escorted tens of thousands across the porous border.

Feeling nervous about where we were, we quickly turned back toward China. Midway across the ice, we heard yelling. We looked back and saw two North Korean soldiers with rifles running toward us. Instinctively, we ran.

We were firmly back inside China when the soldiers apprehended us. Producer Mitch Koss and our guide were both able to outrun the border guards. We were not. We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on Chinese soil, but we were no match for the determined soldiers. They violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base, where we were detained. Over the next 140 days, we were moved to Pyongyang, isolated from one another, repeatedly interrogated and eventually put on trial and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.

DURING OUR TIME in captivity, and in the weeks since we returned, there has been speculation about what we were doing in that part of the world and about what happened on the morning of the 17th. After arriving home, we were disoriented, overwhelmed and not ready to talk about the experience. There are things that are still too painful to revisit, but we do want to explain what took us to northeastern China and the circumstances of our arrest.

Our motivations for covering this story were many. First and foremost, we believe that journalists have a responsibility to shine light in dark places, to give voice to those who are too often silenced and ignored. One of us, Euna, is a devout Christian whose faith infused her interest in the story. The other, Laura, has reported on the exploitation of women around the world for years. We wanted to raise awareness about the harsh reality facing these North Korean defectors who, because of their illegal status in China, live in terror of being sent back to their homeland.

In researching the story, we sought help from several activists and missionaries who operate in the region. Our main contact was the Seoul-based Rev. Chun Ki-won, a well-known figure in the world of North Korean defectors. Chun and his network have helped smuggle hundreds of North Koreans out of China and into countries — including the U.S. — where they can start new lives. He introduced us to our guide and gave us a cellphone to use in China, telephone numbers to reach his associates and specific instructions on how to contact them. We carefully followed his directions so as to not endanger anyone in this underground world.

Because these defectors live in fear of being repatriated to North Korea, we took extreme caution to ensure that the people we interviewed and their locations were not identifiable. We met with defectors away from their actual places of work or residence. We avoided filming the faces of defectors so as not to reveal their identities. The exception was one woman who allowed us to film her profile.

Most of the North Koreans we spoke with said they were fleeing poverty and food shortages. One girl in her early 20s said she had been told she could find work in the computer industry in China. After being smuggled across the Tumen River, she found herself working with computers, but not in the way she had expected. She became one of a growing number of North Korean women who are being used as Internet sex workers, undressing for online clients on streaming video. Some defectors appeared more nervous about being interviewed than others. But they all agreed that their lives in China, while stark, were better than what they had left behind in North Korea.

We also visited a foster home run by a pastor who worked for Rev. Chun. The home housed six children born to North Korean women who were forced into marriage in China. The mothers had either been repatriated to North Korea or had abandoned their families. Because the children have Chinese fathers, it is unlikely they will be deported to North Korea. The foster home provides them with decent conditions, an education and hope for a better life.

In the days before our capture, our guide had seemed cautious and responsible; he was as concerned as we were about protecting our interview subjects and not taking unnecessary risks. That is in part why we made the decision to follow him across the river.

We didn’t spend more than a minute on North Korean soil before turning back, but it is a minute we deeply regret. To this day, we still don’t know if we were lured into a trap. In retrospect, the guide behaved oddly, changing our starting point on the river at the last moment and donning a Chinese police overcoat for the crossing, measures we assumed were security precautions. But it was ultimately our decision to follow him, and we continue to pay for that decision today with dark memories of our captivity.

AFTER WE WERE detained, the two of us made every effort to limit the repercussions of our arrest. In the early days of our confinement, before we were taken to Pyongyang, we were left for a very brief time with our belongings. With guards right outside the room, we furtively destroyed evidence in our possession by swallowing notes and damaging videotapes. During rigorous, daily interrogation sessions, we took care to protect our sources and interview subjects. We were also extremely careful not to reveal the names of our Chinese and Korean contacts, including Pastor Chun. People had put their lives at risk by sharing their stories, and we were determined to do everything in our power to safeguard them.

Our families and colleagues back home maintained total silence about our work for two full months, both to minimize the potential impact on sensitive underground work in China and to protect us. We were surprised to learn that Chun spoke with reporters publicly in the immediate aftermath of our arrest. Among other things, Chun claimed that he had warned us not to go to the river. In fact, he was well aware of our plans because he had been communicating with us throughout our time in China, and he never suggested we shouldn’t go. Chun’s public statements prompted members of our families to speak directly with him in Korean, pleading with him to refrain from any further comment that might jeopardize our situation and those of relief organizations working along the border.

After spending nearly five months in captivity, we were relieved to be granted amnesty by the North Korean government. We continue to cope with tremendous mental and emotional anguish, but we feel incredibly fortunate to be free and reunited with our families. We are forever indebted to the United States government, particularly to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to former Vice President Al Gore and our colleagues at Current TV, to Swedish Ambassador Mats Foyer, and to former President Clinton and his team for taking on this private humanitarian mission.

WE can’t adequately express the emotions surrounding our release. One moment, we were preparing to be sent to a labor camp, fearing that we would disappear and never be heard from again; the next we were escorted into a room with President Clinton, who greeted us and told us we were going home. We are grateful to the many journalists who kept our story alive. We are humbled by the tens of thousands of people who supported us, prayed for us and fought for our release.

At the same time, though, we do not want our story to overshadow the critical plight of these desperate defectors.

Since our release, we have become aware that the situation along the China-North Korea border has become even more challenging for aid groups and that many defectors are going deeper underground. We regret if any of our actions, including the high-profile nature of our confinement, has led to increased scrutiny of activists and North Koreans living along the border. The activists’ work is inspiring, courageous and crucial.

Many people have asked about our strength to endure such hardships and uncertainty. But our experiences pale when compared to the hardship facing so many people living in North Korea or as illegal immigrants in China.

The outcome of our three-day trial was never in doubt. In the end, we were convicted and sentenced to two years for trespassing and 10 years for “hostile acts.” What did we do that was hostile? We tried to tell the story of repression and desperation in North Korea. It’s not surprising, given the North Korean government’s desire to silence any form of dissent, that the more extreme portion of the sentence was issued not for trespassing but for our work as journalists. Totalitarian regimes the world over are terrified of exposure.

We know that people would like to hear more about our experience in captivity. But what we have shared here is all we are prepared to talk about — the psychological wounds of imprisonment are slow to heal. Instead, we would rather redirect this interest to the story we went to report on, a story about despairing North Korean defectors who flee to China only to find themselves living a different kind of horror. We hope that now, more than ever, the plight of these people and of the aid groups helping them are not forgotten.”

Tags: china, current tv, free speech, laura ling, North Korea, President Clinton

Dachis Group Acquires Headshift: Say Hello to a Social Business Consulting Powerhouse

The Dachis Group, an agency founded by former Razorfish CEO Jeff Dachis and backed by Austin Ventures, has made its first acquisition. Late Tuesday night the company announced it has bought the London-based consultancy Headshift, giving Dachis Group an international reach for the first time.

Dachis and Headshift offer large corporations advice on technology strategy, specializing in the social technologies that have taken the consumer Web by storm and are slowly but surely moving into the enterprise. Both agencies have been leaders among a cadre of consultancies advising corporate entities as diverse as the BBC, Intuit and Coca-Cola.

Sponsor

Dachis Group is a top consultant group in the U.S. advising companies about social technology adoption, and they've served big name corporations in many different verticals. Headshift has been the European counterpart to the Dachis Group (or vice versa, depending on which side of the pond you're looking from).

Though various sources have called both groups "social media agencies" at various times (including during news of the acquisition), this is not the kind of social media guru/expert you might have in mind. Headshift consultants aren't out there acting as company representatives on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Rather than fishing for companies, Dachis and Headshift are teaching them how to fish for themselves. "It is time for companies to move beyond the hype and toward delivering concrete, sustainable, and measurable value from their social media activities," said Headshift co-founder Livio Hughes in a statement.

The pair of consultancies have made a profitable business out of showing corporations and government how to create a collaborative ethic inside their organizations and how to use today's leading software platforms. Headshift is based in London but also has offices in Sydney, and it operates across Europe and the Pacific.

Both Headshift and Dachis Group are privately held, so no financial details of the acquisition were released. According to one source the most recent injection of capital into Dachis was specifically to make purchases of this nature, so look for more news to come.

Thanks to Susan Scrupski at ITSinsider for the tip.

IL&FS Financial Services' Open offer to Maytas at Rs 112.80/share

IL&FS Financial Services Ltd on Wednesday offered to buy 13.25 million equity shares, or 22.51 per cent of paid up capital in Maytas Infra Ltd, at a price of Rs 112.80 per share, the offer manager said in a public announcement. 

LOST: Regional Networks Removed from Facebook

Last month, we picked up on a small change to the Facebook interface – the removal of regional networks when browsing groups of friends. We were of the belief that it was a precursor to the removal of regional networks on Facebook, something they launched in 2006 to expand Facebook beyond its college roots.

Now regional networks are gone. We first noticed the change when I was trying to search for my Facebook friends in New York City to plan for an upcoming trip. Friend after friend had their college or work networks, but no regional network. So I checked my own. Sure enough, “Silicon Valley” was gone, and so were the local networks for all of the Mashable editorial staff.

We were vaguely aware that this move was coming. It has long been part of Facebook’s Twitterification plan. It wants to expand from tight regional networks into a worldwide platform for conversation, much like Twitter, which is trying to become the world’s water cooler.

So yes, we were warned, but we’re still a bit shocked. We feel lost without them. I still want to contact all my NYC friends and tell them I’m coming to visit. We can see why Facebook is making this move (even if we don’t agree with it), but we’re not sure if the hometown feature will compensate.

We’ve emailed Facebook to get their reaction, and will update this post when we get it. Tell us in the comments if you’ve noticed the removal of your network, or if yours is still standing for now (it’s possible this change is coming in waves as well).

Update: We got a response from Facebook. We were referred to their July 1 post on the matter, as they announced the feature would be “phased out.” It may be that today was the phase out of networks on profile pages.

Tags: facebook, Regional Networks

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Pandora One Gets an Update to Desktop App 2.0

Pandora got a large number of votes in our recent lunchtime poll for favorite music streaming service. And if you’re one of the proud subscribers to the Pandora One service, you’ve got some good news today: the Pandora Desktop App was updated to version 2.0.

Some relatively simple interface tweaks to the Pandora One AIR app add some nice new functionality, including a track progress bar and access to your song history. Both are accessible by simply clicking the album cover, which insets the album art and makes room for the other two controls. You can navigate backwards through the last hour of your listening, thumbs up or down anything in the playlist, and/or purchase any of the tracks from the list.

Windows users (sorry Mac fans!) can also use a mouse hover over the Pandora icon in the system tray to get a quick view of the current track’s song title and artist.

Two other small tweaks include positional memory for the app window, so next time you start up the app it will be right where you left it. Version 2.0 will also remember your last volume level as well.

Lastly, the wait time between songs has been sped up, which means no more long waits after thumbs down-ing a track.

By the way, if you’re a current Pandora user looking to get more out of the service with or without a subscription, check out our recent feature on 6 ways to find new music and spice up your stations. Do you use Pandora? Have you subscribed or considered subscribing to the Pandora One service? Let us know in the comments.

Tags: Adobe Air, music streaming, pandora

Roundup: Google goes down, Yahoo Meme goes up, Sony goes 3-D

Google owns up to Gmail outage – Ben Treynor, the company’s VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar, blogged openly today: “Right up front, I’d like to apologize to all of you - today’s outage was a Big Deal, and we’re treating it as such.” Here’s his tech explanation of what happened:

This morning (Pacific Time) we took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades. This isn’t in itself a problem - we do this all the time, and Gmail’s web interface runs in many locations and just sends traffic to other locations when one is offline.

However, as we now know, we had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, some designed to improve service availability) placed on the request routers - servers which direct web queries to the appropriate Gmail server for response. At about 12:30 pm Pacific a few of the request routers became overloaded and in effect told the rest of the system “stop sending us traffic, we’re too slow!”. This transferred the load onto the remaining request routers, causing a few more of them to also become overloaded, and within minutes nearly all of the request routers were overloaded. As a result, people couldn’t access Gmail via the web interface because their requests couldn’t be routed to a Gmail server.

Internet cloud services fall short of five nines reliability — Telecommunications techs sometimes allude to what they call “five nines uptime,” a goal of 99.999% uptime that allows only five minutes per year of total downtime. Google’s uptime is exceptionally good, but today’s multi-hour Gmail outage blew their shot at five nines for the year Would you settle for three nines? A goal of 99.9% uptime would still allow Gmail or similar services to be down for eight hours out of each year. Today’s G-Fail will hopefully get people talking about what they’re willing to tolerate from free cloud computing services.

One-line comment in source code spawns speculation about Google’s plans for Chrome OS — “The name of the pipe over which the Chrome OS login manager will send single-sign-on cookies.” That’s the note in the source code for Google’s open-source Chromium project. A single sign-on system could be smart enough that whenever you login to Chrome OS on any computer, phone or whatever, it knows all the passwords for every site you use, so you needn’t do any more username/password typing past the single login to the Chrome OS. Sarah Perez worries that Google’s browser-based operating system won’t allow you to use a different browser. I dunno, that seems kind of pointless and counter to Google’s corporate culture of winning through better products rather than user lock-in. As long as Chrome works, people will stick with it anyway.

OK, enough Google! Sony has a 3-D television in the works for next year — “The company will announce plans for a new 3-D television at next week’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin,” says the Wall Street Journal, going with a rumor they think is true. Sony’s TV division has lost money for five straight years and needs a hit to turn it around. The Journal claims Sony is avoiding pricey technical wizardry in favor of affordable TVs, so maybe we’ll all get one. Most obvious concern: Will it play all 3-D movies, or just a fraction of them.

Yahoo Meme, a Twitter-wannabe service, launches as an invite-only beta — I know: Yahoo launches so many services that sink like rocks that you stopped paying attention when the company launched a Twitteresque service in Portugese, and then Spanish. Today, Yahoo added an English version. The company hasn’t answered Search Engine Land’s request for more info, nor have they informed any other reporters we could find about what’s going on with Yahoo Meme. Which is OK for now, since it’s not going to take off until the remove the beta-signup wrapper.

What kind of photos do people share on Twitter? YFrog, the photo add-on to Twitter, emailed journos a nice, mainstream-simple categorization of the Top 10 topics of the photos that Twitter users upload to YFrog.

1. Faces, people and self portraits
2. Food
3. Whereabouts (restaurants, beaches, stuck in traffic, etc)
4. Tattoos and body art
5. Cars
6. Beer and cocktails
7. Pets
8. Babies and children
9. Live event: concert, game
10. Video games and iPhone screengrabs

Yes, contrary to every single Apple demo of any photo or video product ever, people prove less likely to upload photos of their drinks than their kids.