Morning Report: The Drones Among Us

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When it comes to drones — “unmanned aerial vehicles” — San Diego may be second to none, at least in the U.S. We’ve been called the “hub of the U.S. drone industry” thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars in military contracts.

It looks like drones will become an even bigger part of the local economy. Now, hot off her inquiry into SeaWorld, VOSD reporter Lisa Halverstadt is launching a new questto understand the role drones play here and the debate over what services they can provide.

Halverstadt writes: “Both the possibilities and the current reality of the industry raise big economic and moral questions for San Diego residents, who stand to benefit from their success and also to be hampered by it in the form of intrusive spying or malfunction-caused injuries.”

Here are some questions she’ll be pursuing:

“How big is San Diego’s drone footprint, anyway? How many companies in our region play some role in unmanned systems technology – whether for military purposes or for commercial uses? How are drones already being used here? Is San Diego’s drone industry sustainable, and are there needs that aren’t being met, particularly at area universities? How are local boosters positioning our region for commercial drones’ market launch? What are the specific privacy concerns that could stymie those efforts, and are there ways to address them? And are San Diegans inclined to support both government and commercial uses of drones?”

For Business Owners, New Health Insurance Hassles

Health care reform seemed to be a boon for Allen Phillips, who runs an auto repair shop in Del Mar. He could offer a choice of two plans to his employees for the first time and get $4,000 in tax credits.

It sounded like a good deal in January. It sounded like a good deal months later. But he kept waiting and waiting for insurance cards to appear.

He has lots of company. “California’s new insurance marketplace for small businesses is off to a rough start,” Kaiser Health News reports in a story published in partnership with VOSD on our site. “It has enrolled just a fraction of eligible companies, with most being deterred by technology glitches, paperwork delays and customer service problems.”

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IT Disasters Around the World

IT disasters can be caused by many different situations.  Human error, defective hardware, or defective software are a few prime examples.  IT disasters are known to cause great harm to a business or organization.  The damage done can be financial damage or reputation related.  Here is one of many IT disaster cases:

1. Soviet Disaster for WWIII

The Soviet Union had an early warning system in place during WWIII.  This system informed the Soviets that 5 missiles were headed towards them from the US.  A perceptive duty office took this into consideration and then realized the warning was false. Defective software caused this miscommunication, which in turn could have been a bigger disaster than it actually was.  This scenario cause reputation damage to the Soviets.  

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Old habits at Samsung, LG embarrass them abroad

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Samsung recently launched a new smartphone at the storied Radio City Music Hall, the Broadway-style spectacle was memorable not for technology but for a cast of giggling female characters who fantasized about marrying a doctor, fretted about eating too much cake, and needed a man's help to understand how to work the phone.

The stereotypes were blatant even for an industry where skimpily clad booth babes are a staple of trade shows and high-level female executives are a rarity. A backlash spread online as the event, live-streamed on the Internet and broadcast in Times Square, unfolded.

How could an international company that wants to be seen as an innovator and spends more than $11 billion a year on advertising and promotions so badly misjudge its audience? Without too much difficulty and often it turns out.

A day before the Galaxy smartphone launch in March last year, the company was criticized in South Africa for using models in bikini tops to show its newest refrigerators and washing machines.

Some months later it was derided for a video promoting a fast data storage device known as a solid state drive. Two men in the ad immediately recognize the device and understand the benefits while a woman, who says she only uses her computer for simple activities such as looking at pictures, is befuddled.

Marlene Morris Town, a marketing professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, said the portrayals are "troubling" and imply that men are the sole target of the sales message. If women are the target, the implication is "they are significantly less competent and not able to grasp technology."

Samsung is hardly alone in talking down to half of its potential customers.

Joking that gadgets made by LG Electronics distract attention from models, Facebook user Lee Sang-hoon collected two dozen images of the company's products promoted by women with ample cleavage. The company's promotion for a new curved TV was a woman showing off her thighs in a reclining pose.

"Among men, we talk about how LG does breast marketing," said Lee, who noted LG seemed to have toned down its promotions this year.

Perhaps because depictions of females as adornments and submissive helpers have long been the norm in South Korean commercials and print ads, audiences have rarely questioned how homegrown technology giants such as Samsung and LG Electronics portrayed women. Even as these companies became global names, ingrained aspects of their corporate cultures hardly changed. Some of Samsung's blunders took place under female leadership. A top marketing executive in its mobile team was a woman and gave the green light to the Radio City Music Hall performance.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2023288497_apxtecskoreasamsungwomen.html

Avoiding Security Malfunctions on your Iphone

Apple Inc. has a great reputation worldwide.  They are one of the best known companies out there.  There variety of products and impeccable marketing techniques have caught the attention of almost everyone at one point or another.  Their Mac computers, iPods, iPhones, and iPads are their most popular products.  Apple has managed to create such a strong fan base, that their customers will camp out in from of an Apple store to grab hold of a new product.  in the last 2013 quarter Apple sold over 5 0million iPhones and 26 million iPads around the world.  This gave them record highs in revenue and profits.

That being said, it was shocking to hear about a problem with the apple software.  This problem involved the failure to encrypt emails and other communication forms, which makes it easier for hackers to access user information.

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How technology is transforming the business of Hollywood

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Ever since T-1000 morphed from liquid metal into human form in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and dinosaurs roamed Isla Nublar in Jurassic Park, computers have played a vital role in Hollywood. But bits and bytes have transformed the industry well beyond special effects— technology has fundamentally impacted the old studio model for creating movies.

Here are several ways that the Internet and cloud computing have changed show business.

Collaboration in the Cloud

Even if you’ve never set foot on a studio lot, you can imagine the difficulty of making a movie. Securing locations, building sets and wrangling temperamental actors are only part of the process. Multiple collaborators across the studio have to approve the content, requiring many video and audio files to be shared on a daily basis.

This presents a challenge as a small army of camera crew and audio engineers produce up to 50 TB of data each day. That’s equivalent to more than 6,000 dual-layer DVD discs.

“A regime shift is occurring that’s more open to the cloud’s game-changing benefits. And along the way studios are realizing there is a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand the business model by putting as much content on the cloud as possible,” Guillaume Aubuchon CTO of DigitalFilm Tree, a cloud-based collaboration service for studios wrote in a recent Rackspace blog post.

Aubuchon realized that technology was causing Hollywood to become decentralized—no longer were writers, producers and editors confined to a particular location.

Realizing this, DigitalFilm Tree provides an easy way to store and share footage using performance cloud infrastructure. Now, movie studios are able to become more nimble in producing films.

“To be frank, if Hollywood doesn’t embrace the new way, it will cease to exist. There will always be an army of new content providers challenging the status quo. If studios want to remain at the top of the stack, then they need cloud workflow solutions,” Aubuchon said.

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/01/27/technology-transforming-business-hollywood/#!tAai7

The Best Way to Prevent Virus Infection

There are several measures that should be taken to ensure the safety of your computer systems.  One way to do so is to not open email attachment without scanning them through a third party app.  Apps that scan for spyware and viruses are easy to come by, all you have to do is download and use them.  Email attachments are the easiest way a virus can get into your system.

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