insignia roku tv and insignia dvd player

[Larry Lumpkin]

I have asked mark the moderator for permission to post this and request that
replies be sent off-list to my personal e-mail

 

llump...@austin.rr.com  

 

I have just purchased the 24-inch Insignia in24 roku tv and the insignia dvd
player.  I'll furnish models below.  Has anyone used these device's
accessibility features and what have your experiences been?  Model info
below:

DVD Player Model: NS-HDVD18

 

Insignia 24" Class (23.6" Diag.) - LED -720p - Smart - Roku TV Black
NS-24ER310NA17

 

Thank you very much.

 

 

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AccuWeather sends user location data to monetization firm despite iOS privacy settings

[M. Taylor]

AppleInsider - Frontpage News - Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 4:39 PM
AccuWeather sends user location data to monetization firm despite iOS
privacy settings
  Popular iOS weather app AccuWeather, often listed as a top-ten app in the
Weather section of the iOS App Store, has been collecting and forwarding
user location information to data monetization company Reveal Mobile even
when location sharing is disabled.

The potential breach of privacy was detailed by security researcher Will
Strafach on Monday.
Strafach, who monitored data traffic on a test phone running AccuWeather in
the background, discovered the app would send packets containing Wi-Fi
router name and BSSID information to Reveal Mobile every few hours. That
data can be crosschecked against publicly available router and MAC address
location information to determine a user's whereabouts with relative
precision.
Most troubling is that AccuWeather's Wi-Fi and MAC address data gathering
operation continues when location services are disabled.
When the app is first installed, users can opt in to location tracking,
which allows AccuWeather to push out severe weather alerts, critical updates
and "make the app launch faster." According to Strafach, the app logs
precise GPS coordinates, including current speed and altitude, router name
and MAC address information, and device Bluetooth status when background
location services are activated.
For Reveal Mobile, Bluetooth is an important piece of its core technology.
As detailed in documentation on its website (PDF link), the company helps
advertisers serve relevant content to consumers by harvesting location data
from partner apps.
Reveal Mobile "turns the location data coming out of those apps into
meaningful audience data. We listen for lat/long data and when a device
'bumps' into a Bluetooth beacon," the company says.
Users can decline app calls to activate location services, presented at
first launch and again when searching for weather in a specific area, to
limit the scope of data sent to offsite servers. However, as explained by
Strafach, the continued transmission of Wi-Fi router information is
problematic.
In a statement to ZDNet, Reveal Mobile said it does not use Wi-Fi and BSSID
information for location determination.
"Everything is anonymized," said Brian Handley, CEO of Reveal Mobile. "We're
not ever tracking an individual device." He went on to illustrate a
situation in which Reveal can use the information to deliver advertisements
to customers inside a Starbucks location.
In response to Strafach's revelations, Reveal Mobile issued a public
statement clarifying its location tracking technology. The firm maintains
that it follows all App Store guidelines and honors device level and app
level opt-outs and permissions. In particular, the company says it does not
reverse engineer device location based on "other data signals" when a user
opts out of location services.
In light of the recent findings, however, Reveal Mobile is releasing a new
iOS SDK that "no longer send[s] any data points which could be used to infer
location when someone opts out of location sharing."
For its part, AccuWeather vice president of emerging platforms David
Mitchell said the company plans to "use data through Reveal Mobile for
audience segmentation and analysis, to build a greater audience
understanding and create more contextually relevant and helpful experiences
for users and for advertisers."
Following Strafach's blog post, a number of AccuWeather users abandoned the
app over privacy concerns. As of this writing, the weather app stands in the
No. 6 spot in the Weather section of the App Store.
Update: In a statement to AppleInsider, AccuWeather confirms Wi-Fi network
information was available for "a short period" on the Reveal SDK, but went
unused by the app. Whether that same data was used by Reveal Mobile was left
unmentioned.
The statement in full:
Despite stories to the contrary from sources not connected to the actual
information, if a user opts out of location tracking on AccuWeather, no GPS
coordinates are collected or passed without further opt-in permission from
the user.
Other data, such as Wi-Fi network information that is not user information,
was for a short period available on the Reveal SDK, but was unused by
AccuWeather. In fact, AccuWeather was unaware the data was available to it.
Accordingly, at no point was the data used by AccuWeather for any purpose.
AccuWeather and Reveal Mobile are committed to following the standards and
best practices of the industry. We also recognize this is a quickly evolving
field and what is best practice one day may change the next. Accordingly, we
work to update our practices regularly.
To avoid any further misinterpretation, Reveal is updating its SDK and
pushing out new versions of the SDK in the next 24 hours, with the iOS
update going live tonight. The end result should be that zero data is
transmitted back to Reveal Mobile when someone opts out of location sharing

Verizon permanently throttling video on all unlimited plans, as low as 480p on iPhones

[M. Taylor]

9to5Mac - Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 4:29 AM
Verizon permanently throttling video on all unlimited plans, as low as 480p
on iPhones
 
We noted last month that Verizon was throttling Netflix and YouTube usage
for 'unlimited' plan users even before they hit the 22GB level at which the
company says it may reduce bandwidth - and it has now been revealed that
this was just stage one.
Verizon is now starting to throttle all video on its 'unlimited' plans, with
bandwidth limited to as little as 480p when watching on a smartphone .
 
As The Verge reports, Verizon is splitting out its so-called unlimited plan
into three versions.
.   Go Unlimited: $75/month. Video capped to 480p on smartphones, 720p
on tablets.
.   Beyond Unlimited: $85/month. Video capped to 720p on smartphones,
1080p on tablets.
.   Business Unlimited: Price varies. Video capped to 480p on
smartphones, 720p on tablets.
Not only this, but unlike the previous plan which allowed the carrier to
reduce your data speeds after 22GB in one month, small-print in the basic Go
Unlimited plan lets Verizon do so any time there is network congestion - aka
the company not providing enough bandwidth to meet customer needs. The
company does say than anyone unhappy with performance on this plan can
upgrade to Beyond.
Existing customers can keep their current plan, and you'll also get 15GB of
full-speed LTE hotspot usage (up from 10GB) - but that still won't protect
you from video throttling.
This is what's likely going to enrage Verizon customers most. No matter what
plan you're on - whether it's the old, grandfathered unlimited data plan or
a tiered plan or the new unlimited plan - Verizon is taking a tighter grip
over video streaming. "Moving forward, HD video on all legacy plans will
also match Beyond Unlimited's HD quality."
So you'll soon be limited to a maximum video quality of 720p streaming on
phones and 1080p if you've got a tablet on your plan.
The company claims that nobody can tell the difference between 720p and
higher on a phone and 1080p and better on a tablet, claims which are clearly
ridiculous on an iPhone and iPad.
Customers were able to circumvent the previous Netflix- and YouTube-specific
throttling by using a compatible VPN, but it's unclear whether this will
help if the company is limiting the bandwidth of all video. The new limits
kick in tomorrow for new customers, and 'soon' for existing ones, so it
seems we won't have to wait long before we find out.

Original Article at:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/22/verizon-unlimited-video-throttling/


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Re: iPhone voices

[Mike B.]

Hi Kelly,

LOL  LOL  What a visual !  Maybe a suggestion of Samantha on Midol would be 
another voice preference!
Take care.  Mike.  Go Dodgers!
Sent from my iBarstool.
Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement.  In the 
end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree.
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From: Kelly Pierce
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: iPhone voices


I celebrated the day I learned Apple would enable users to choose any
siri voice for Voice over or Siri.  to me, Samantha sounds like an
irritating woman experiencing menstruation.

Kelly

On 8/19/17, Jan Stirbens  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also like Samantha compact voice.
>
> Jan
>
>> On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:23 AM, lenron brown  wrote:
>>
>> Your not the only one. Still my favorite until this day. All the
>> others have different little things that annoy me about them.
>>
>> On 8/18/17, englishride...@gmail.com  wrote:
>>> Lol no, you're not. :) I was starting to think it was just me, too! I
>>> can't
>>> stand HQ Samantha! She has too many weird up/down inflections for my
>>> taste.
>>> She reminds me somewhat of the Ivona or Acapela voices. I used to use
>>> compact Karen, but she's changed somewhat in iOS 9 or 10, and I don't
>>> like
>>> her quite as much anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ari
>>>
 On Aug 18, 2017, at 3:05 PM, SoonerAnnie  wrote:

 Um...am I the only one here who actually prefers Samantha’s compact
 voice?!? LOL.

 Ann

 Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 16, 2017, at 2:28 PM, Greg Wocher  wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I usually use Tom on my iPhone. I would like to use Alex but he has
> one
> problem that really bothers me. If a word is in all caps he spells it
> out
> rather than reading the word. This makes it difficult to read twitter
> and
> sometimes it makes it difficult to read emails.
>
> Regards,
> Greg Wocher
>
>> On Aug 16, 2017, at 3:21 PM, christopher hallsworth
>>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi I like and use Alex because he is suitable for my hearing
>> impairment
>> which is profound in one and modewrately severe in the other. I use
>> him
>> on all supported devices.
>>> On 15 Aug 2017, at 15:40, Casey  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi since we have A number of voices now to select that the iPhone
>>> has
>>> now.
>>> Like Alex and Ava and the old one that the phone first came with.
>>> What all are you liking for you go to voice?
>>> I know a lot of you like Alex on your phone.
>>> I have used him to but doesn’t he use A bit more battery then
>>> others?
>>> Also what voice to you like the best out of all of them for use on A
>>> daily basis?
>>> And why do you select the voice you do?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: iPhone voices

[Kelly Pierce]

I celebrated the day I learned Apple would enable users to choose any
siri voice for Voice over or Siri.  to me, Samantha sounds like an
irritating woman experiencing menstruation.

Kelly

On 8/19/17, Jan Stirbens  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I also like Samantha compact voice.
>
> Jan
>
>> On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:23 AM, lenron brown  wrote:
>>
>> Your not the only one. Still my favorite until this day. All the
>> others have different little things that annoy me about them.
>>
>> On 8/18/17, englishride...@gmail.com  wrote:
>>> Lol no, you're not. :) I was starting to think it was just me, too! I
>>> can't
>>> stand HQ Samantha! She has too many weird up/down inflections for my
>>> taste.
>>> She reminds me somewhat of the Ivona or Acapela voices. I used to use
>>> compact Karen, but she's changed somewhat in iOS 9 or 10, and I don't
>>> like
>>> her quite as much anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ari
>>>
 On Aug 18, 2017, at 3:05 PM, SoonerAnnie  wrote:

 Um...am I the only one here who actually prefers Samantha’s compact
 voice?!? LOL.

 Ann

 Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 16, 2017, at 2:28 PM, Greg Wocher  wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I usually use Tom on my iPhone. I would like to use Alex but he has
> one
> problem that really bothers me. If a word is in all caps he spells it
> out
> rather than reading the word. This makes it difficult to read twitter
> and
> sometimes it makes it difficult to read emails.
>
> Regards,
> Greg Wocher
>
>> On Aug 16, 2017, at 3:21 PM, christopher hallsworth
>>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi I like and use Alex because he is suitable for my hearing
>> impairment
>> which is profound in one and modewrately severe in the other. I use
>> him
>> on all supported devices.
>>> On 15 Aug 2017, at 15:40, Casey  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi since we have A number of voices now to select that the iPhone
>>> has
>>> now.
>>> Like Alex and Ava and the old one that the phone first came with.
>>> What all are you liking for you go to voice?
>>> I know a lot of you like Alex on your phone.
>>> I have used him to but doesn’t he use A bit more battery then
>>> others?
>>> Also what voice to you like the best out of all of them for use on A
>>> daily basis?
>>> And why do you select the voice you do?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: Emailing Contact Groups

[Harry Bell]

The only way I know of to send emails to groups on iOS is by using the A2Z 
Contacts app. Cheers. Harry

> On 22 Aug 2017, at 20:40, Kelby Carlson  wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to email a contact group that I created in Google
> Contacts with the Gmail app? So far I can only send to contact groups
> via the Gmail desktop web interface.
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Emailing Contact Groups

[Kelby Carlson]

Is there any way to email a contact group that I created in Google
Contacts with the Gmail app? So far I can only send to contact groups
via the Gmail desktop web interface.

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