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TAPI can request the execution of a limited set of media control operations on the call's media stream triggered by telephony events. Although the TAPI clients normally use the media function specifically defined for the media type, media control can yield a significant performance improvement for client/server implementations because simple "detect/control" sequences can be offloaded to the server. The operation TSPI_lineSetMediaControl allows TAPI to specify a list of tuples specifying a telephony event and the associated media-control action, and thus sets up a call's media stream for media control. The telephony events that can trigger media control activities are:

Media control actions are defined generically for the different media types. Not all media streams can provide meaningful interpretations of the media control actions. Operations that may be possible are indicated in LINEMEDIACONTROL_ Constants.

The scope of media control is bounded by the lifetime of the call. Media control on a call ends as soon the call disconnects or goes idle. Only a single media control request can be outstanding on a call across all applications.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China issued new rules on instant messaging chat groups on Thursday, tightening control over online discussions ahead of a sensitive leadership reshuffle next month.

Beijing has been ramping up measures to secure the internet and maintain strict censorship, a process that has accelerated ahead of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party, when global attention will be on the worlds No.2 economy.

Group chats on instant messaging apps and online commenting threads have seen a surge in popularity in China in recent years as forums for discussion, partly because they are private for members and so in theory are subject to less censorship.

Internet chat service providers must now verify the identities of their users and keep a blog of group chats for no less than six months, the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement released on its website

The rules, which take effect on Oct 8, just before the congress is due to begin, will cover platforms provided by Chinas internet titans, such as Tencents WeChat and QQ, Baidus Tieba and Alibabas Alipay chat.

The regulations also require companies to establish a credit system, and to provide group chat services to users in accordance to their credit rating, CAC said.

Chat group participants who break the rules will see their credit scores lowered, their rights to manage group chats suspended or revoked and should be reported to the relevant government department, it added.

The CAC did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment sent after office hours on Thursday.

The administration also said the owner of the chat group should bear responsibility for the management of the group.

Whoever owns the group should be responsible, and whoever manages the group should be responsible, it said.

The new rules are the latest requirement for Chinas internet giants, who have already been subject to investigations from the CAC into their top social media sites for failing to comply with cyber laws.

The administration has already taken down popular celebrity gossip social media accounts and extended restrictions on what news can be produced and distributed by online platforms, and has embarked on a campaign to remove virtual private network apps, which allow users to access websites blocked by the authorities.

Reporting by Pei Li and Christian Shepherd

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Get ready because iOS 11 is going to make your iPad look and act in completely different ways.Apple puts multitasking front and center with iOS 11, making the iPad a more powerful and more flexible device. You'll likely come to enjoy your iPad's newfound multitasking abilities after upgrading to iOS 11, but the changes will take a little getting used to. I've been using the iOS 11 beta for weeks; here are five big changes headed your iPad's way when Apple rolls out its new lineup and iOS 11 on Sept. 12.

The first thing you'll notice is the Dock looks different. It no longer runs edge to edge and instead looks MacBook-like. It can hold a lot more apps than the iOS 10 Dock -- up to 15, depending on the size of your iPad. And you can access it without needing to return to the home screen -- it's always just a swipe away. Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to call up the Dock, even when you have an app open.

You'll also see three apps on the right side of the Dock, separated from the rest by a little divider. Siri suggests these apps based on which apps you used recently on your iPad and the app you currently have open on your iPhone or Mac.

The App Switcher and Control Panel received makeovers and now live together. Swipe up from the bottom or double-tap the home button and you'll see the newly combined forces -- let's call it the App Panel Control Switcher. No? Then make up your own name for it. Whatever you want to call it, you'll find thumbnails of your recently used apps on the left, which you can tap to open or swipe up to force close. The Control Panel sits to the right. It loses its two-panel layout and now provides the media controls right alongside the settings and shortcut buttons.

The amount of dragging and dropping you'll be doing in iOS 11 will make your iPad feel like a mini, touchscreen MacBook. You can drag an app from the Dock to open it on top of another app in Slide Over mode. The second app sits in a narrow panel that you can position on the left or right edge of the screen. Swipe it off the left edge to hide it or pull down on it to open it in Split View for a more equitable allotment of screen real estate.

Slide Over is great for keeping tabs on the Music app without leaving your current app, but it's even better than quick glances because you can drag and drop photos, links, files and text from one app to another. It's a bit hit or miss at the moment with the beta, but inserting photos and links into emails and texts, for example, is much easier with iOS 11.

Along with its Mac-like multitasking abilities, the iPad gets its version of the MacOS Finder app. In iOS 11, it's simply called the Files app. You'll find it in the new Dock. The Files app replaces the iCloud Drive app you likely never touched. It collects all the files you have created across your various iPad apps as well as any files you have stored in iCloud Drive. It also lets you connect to other cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive and Box. I connected my Google Drive and Dropbox accounts and was disappointed that the Files app makes me navigate both in a separate and smaller window rather than just turning over the regular, full-screen Files app interface to the cloud service of my choice.

The iPad's onscreen keyboard makes it easier to type numbers and symbols, but I'm most excited for the quick access it provides to the hashtag symbol (#psyched). You no longer need to switch to the secondary keyboard layout to type a number or a @ or a # or other symbols. The keys are double mapped in iOS 11; to type the secondary symbol (listed in gray above the letter on each key), you just need to do a tiny swipe down on that key. If you are old enough, it feels a bit like dialing a 1 on ancient rotary phone.

The new keyboard design finally takes into account the popularity of the hashtag. On iOS 10, you needed to drill down two levels to find it -- tapping once to go to the numbers keyboard and then again to go to the symbols keyboard (#lame). Now, a quick swipe down on the S key will have you hashtagging like a #boss.

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Guests wait at the inauguration ceremony of Somalias President Farmaajo. It is not taken long for his administration to experience its first crisis.

The presidency of Somalias Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is only eight months old but already his administration faces its first crisis and it is one of their own making.

For a country that has experienced years of civil war, division and instability, one would imagine that the greatest challenges facing Somalias new administration would be internal. But nothing is ever straightforward in Somalia. So it is that the first real test for President Farmaajo has been sparked by the announcement made last week by the foreign minister of neighbouring Ethiopia that Somali authorities had played a facilitation role in the capture of Abdikarin Sheikh Muse.

Muse is a member of a liberation movement in the Ogaden region, an almost entirely ethnically Somali area ceded to Ethiopia in the colonial era, and ever since the source of near constant tension and numerous wars in the region.

The long history of animosity between the two countries makes the involvement of Somalia in the apprehension of a man wanted by Ethiopia notable; but the details have made it an outrage in Somalia. Muse has long been a resident in Mogadishu and, though heavily involved in the Ogaden liberation movement, is thought to have been born in Somalia. The countrys constitution expressly forbids the extradition of Somali citizen to foreign countries.

To add to the potential illegality of Somalias involvement in the arrest, one has to consider the platform on which candidate Farmaajo ran his campaign. The leader of a party founded as recently as 2012, Farmaajos background was modest compared to many of his rivals. Without the establishment credentials, his popularity was instead based on his strong nationalism, and in particular a frostiness, not to say hostility, to Ethiopia. This provided Farmaajo a unique selling point when compared to incumbent president Hassan Sheikh Mohamuds perceived cosiness with the government in Addis Ababa.

Farmaajos strong national and security-based rhetoric have led to many questions about just what role his administration had in the arrest of arrest, even abduction, of Muse. Was this a case of extraordinary rendition? What did the president know and when did he know it? Did he give the go ahead or, perhaps more worryingly, was this done behind his back?

For such a matter to become a true scandal though, it cannot simply be an error, or a violation of law, it must hint at a deeper fear, underlying flaw or insecurity.

Somalis have never truly recovered from the trauma of their countrys breakdown. Amongst the many catastrophes witnessed in the civil war, the military intervention by Ethiopia remains a deep and unhealed wound. The sight of the Ministry of Defence occupied by Ethiopian troops the thought of regional rivals rifling through all of the countrys secrets is a nightmare that still haunts the national psyche. That this matter involves the president apparently reversing his rhetoric and bowing before the Ethiopian authorities hits just these traumas.

For many years too, Somalis have had to live with the humiliation of Somalia being an international punchline, a byword for failure. After years of struggle to build their nation once again, this episode raises fundamental questions. To have a Somali citizen snatched from Somali soil with the apparent complicity and even involvement of the Somali government makes many wonder if their homeland is still nowhere near being an independent and functioning state.

In a case that involves as much baggage as this, it is impossible to separate the questions of legality, history, local custom and realpolitik. With no clear statement from the president or his administration on their involvement in the case, there has been nothing to stem the growing anger and sense of disappointment.

Many had high hopes for this new government, viewing it is a clean break with the past, one with a strong sense of identity. All of this has now been thrown into doubt. This is the first real test of Farmaajo as president, and at the moment he is failing it.

This article first appeared on The Huffington Post

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ANNA KOVACEVICH/THE HOYAFormer Obama Communications Director Jen Psaki and former Trump Communications Director Mike Dubke discuss their respective experiences in the White House.

Emma Kotfica is a staff writer for The Hoya.

President Donald Trumps habit of communicating his unfiltered perspectives to the public through Twitter poses a unique challenge for the White House communications team, according to former White House Communications Director Mike Dubke.

At an event hosted by the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service on Tuesday, Dubke shared his experiences from his three-month tenure in the Trump White House alongside Jen Psaki, White House communications director under President Barack Obama. Psaki was a GU Politics fellow for the spring 2017 semester, and Dubke is a fellow for the fall 2017 semester.

Dubke said Trumps tweets allowed him to communicate his unfettered perspectives to the public and are a powerful medium of communication for the president, but also derailed the administrations message. Dubke blamed news organizations for spending too much time covering the presidents tweeted statements rather than his policy.

What Im concerned about is that our news organizations seem to be jumping from tweet to tweet, and short attention span to short attention span, Dubke said. A single tweet would then dictate what the programming was for the next hour and a half on cable news, which was an amazing power but also an amazing distraction.

Because of Trumps tweeting habit, Dubke said he struggled to control the administrations daily messaging.

The challenge, of course is that this narrative continues to change, and thats what I was dealing with when I was there, Dubke said. Specifically because the president has this direct connect with the American people that, while President Obama had it, never really used it to the same degree [as Trump].

Psaki said not being in control of the narrative is part of the job, not solely a problem faced by the current administration.

The unique thing about being in the White House is that you are responsible for commenting and speaking to everything, so its like the best-laid plans can often change, Psaki said.

Nevertheless, Psaki described the communications director role as one of the best jobs you can have in the White House.

It is way better than the press secretary job, because you get your hands in all of the strategy and you have a seat at the table with the policy teams determining decisions that are going to be made about policy, when things are going to be announced, how they should be rolled out and how they should be talked about, Psaki said. You are a decision-maker in ways that the press secretary is entirely capable of being but cant be because their day is consumed by the press briefings.

Dubke added that communications directors take the fall when plans go wrong.

Youre also blamed for all the bad things that happen, even when its not your fault or youre brought in after the decision has been made to explain the cleanup, Dubke said.

Dubke served as Trumps communications director for three months before tendering his resignation on May 18.

Dubkes former boss has been noted for his attacks on press coverage. Trump routinely criticized the media in campaign rallies and called the press the enemy of the American people in a February tweet. According to Dubke, Trumps frustration with media coverage derives from his understanding of the importance of their role.

I know the president understands the role that the press plays in the democratic process, Dubke said. I think thats where a good level of his frustration comes, where he is hearing things come out of the press that he doesnt believe are true or are a slant on the truth that is trying to paint an entirely different picture.

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