【#戴明哲學國際週報】007：
2019.12.19
亞馬遜、蘋果和Google將合作開發智能家居設備的開放標準
Google goes offline after fibre cables cut
Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday.
The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to happen.
Google said its services were among those unavailable in the region for about 30 minutes.
The company told internet service providers to connect to its other servers to "route around the problem".
In a statement, the company blamed "multiple simultaneous fibre cuts", which are very rare.
BBC Monitoring confirmed that internet access in Bulgaria, Iran and Turkey had been disrupted for about two hours on Thursday morning.
Sadjad Bonabi, a director at Iran's Communications Infrastructure Company, said two cuts happened at once, one between Iran and Bucharest and the other on a line to Munich.
This disrupted traffic on one of the major fibre cables in the region. But Mr Bonabi said traffic had been routed on to "healthy" connections in western and southern Iran.
No explanation for the cut cables has been offered.
品質眾生相 (241): 2014.3.16
Google Services Hit by Outages
Thumbs were getting a brief rest Monday as several GoogleGOOG +1.65% services were hit with disruptions.
The Hangouts outage may have the widest impact, since the app now powers text messaging on many of the latest Android devices. People who use the Google Nexus 5, for example, have been struggling to send texts since the first outages were reported around 9 a.m. Pacific Time. (There’s an easy workaround: Download another messaging app like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.)
The disruptions are Google’s first since Gmail ran into trouble Feb. 25. A larger range of Google services went down on Feb. 20 and Jan. 24. Google’s email archiving and security service Postini Services has seen frequent disruptions over the past month, according to the company’s apps dashboard.
As of 11:15 a.m. PT, Google had posted messages saying Hangouts, Talk and Sheets service had been restored for “some users” and the company expects the problems to be fixed for everyone “in the near future.”
品質眾生相 (240):
美國的電腦工業缺乏標準，導致整個產業界窒息得透不過氣來，並且剝奪消費者使用更佳產品的機會。----W. Edwards Deming, 1986
歐盟訂定手機充電器和插座標準
European Parliament backs common mobile phone charger
Consumers in the 28-nation EU may soon benefit from a standardized charger
and socket for their mobile devices. Compliance among manufacturers by 2017
will be required in a draft law passed by the European Parliament.
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European Parliament backs common mobile phone charger
Consumers in the 28-nation EU may soon benefit from a standardized
charger and socket for their mobile devices. Compliance among
manufacturers by 2017 will be required in a draft law passed by the
European Parliament.
The European Parliament on Thursday approved by 550 votes to 12 an
amendment to the bloc's radio equipment law.
That paves the way for a common charger for mobile devices to be made available to consumers by 2017.
Ending clutter
Rapporteur Barbara Weiler said she was particularly glad the modernized Radio Equipment Directive now included details on the introduction of such a charger for mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices from producers such as Nokia, Sony, Apple, Motorola and Samsung.
"This serves the interests both of consumers and the environment," Weiler said in a statement. "It will put an end to charger clutter and 51,000 tons of electronic waste annually."
Greater monitoring powers
European lawmakers also backed provisions that would give authorities
additional market surveillance tools to detect radio equipment products which failed to comply with new safety and non-interference rules.
The draft law only has to be formally approved by the European Council, comprising the EU's heads of state.
The EU's executive commission will negotiate the optimal design with device manufacturers over the coming months.
The bloc's 28 member states will be given two years to incorporate the changes into national legislation, while manufacturers of mobile devices will have an additional year to comply.
hg/ipj (dpa, Reuters, AFP)
That paves the way for a common charger for mobile devices to be made available to consumers by 2017.
Ending clutter
Rapporteur Barbara Weiler said she was particularly glad the modernized Radio Equipment Directive now included details on the introduction of such a charger for mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices from producers such as Nokia, Sony, Apple, Motorola and Samsung.
"This serves the interests both of consumers and the environment," Weiler said in a statement. "It will put an end to charger clutter and 51,000 tons of electronic waste annually."
Greater monitoring powers
The draft law only has to be formally approved by the European Council, comprising the EU's heads of state.
The EU's executive commission will negotiate the optimal design with device manufacturers over the coming months.
The bloc's 28 member states will be given two years to incorporate the changes into national legislation, while manufacturers of mobile devices will have an additional year to comply.
hg/ipj (dpa, Reuters, AFP)
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