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Ailing Economic Growth in China Is Beginning to Take a Toll on Miners and Suppliers in US

Dec 26, 2012

Ailing economic growth in China is beginning to take a toll on miners and suppliers in the United States. Dwindling exports to the Middle Kingdom across a swathe of US industries would appear to strongly substantiate reports that the ...

Tags: China, Equipment News, Rare Earth, Suppliers News, USA

SecureState Today Released a New Open Source Hacking Tool

Dec 26, 2012

Computerworld - Security consulting firm SecureState today released a new open source hacking tool that it claims will let security researchers and penetration testers verify the security of electric utility smart meters being installed in ...

Tags: SecureState, Termineter, OptiGuard, Spencer McIntyre

A California Court Ordered Oracle to Continue Porting Its Software to The Intel Chips

Dec 26, 2012

A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...

Tags: HP, Oracle, Software, Intel Itanium chips

Chinese Enterprises Are Turning to "Urban Mining" to Satisfy Voracious Appetite for Metals

Dec 26, 2012

Chinese enterprises are turning to "urban mining" to satisfy the country's voracious appetite for metals, recycling the contents of abandoned household appliances and electronic devices. The China Daily reports that a total of 56 ...

Tags: China, Copper, Gold, Iron Ore, Rare Earth, Silver

Apple Will Ask a Federal Court to Sanction Samsung Electronics

Dec 26, 2012

Apple will ask a federal court to sanction Samsung Electronics for releasing documents that were not allowed as evidence in the companies' dueling patent-infringement suits. In a letter to Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the ...

Tags: Apple, Samsung Electronics, documents, iPhone

Chinese Authorities Have Added 10,680 Tonnes to The Country's Export Allowance

Dec 26, 2012

Chinese authorities have added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance on the top of the 10,546 tonnes it had already allocated to 11 state-sanctioned miners this year. It is something of a meaningless exercise because during the ...

Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, USA

A New Security Project Is Monitoring in Real Time

Dec 26, 2012

A new security project is monitoring in real time the price of stolen credit-card data sold in underground forums, which may eventually reveal emerging cybercrime trends. The company behind it, CloudeyeZ, is publishing the data it ...

Tags: security project, stolen credit card, cybercrime, underground forums

Mobile Games Are at Their Pinnacle

Dec 26, 2012

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, December 22, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Mobile games are at their pinnacle. It is not hard to find somebody playing a mobile game on their smartphone in the subway. People of all ages, from children to the elderly, are ...

Tags: Game App, App, Mobile games, smartphone

Hitachi Has Built an 11-Kilowatt Motor That Uses No Rare Earth Materials.

Dec 26, 2012

Hitachi has built an 11-kilowatt motor that uses no rare earth materials. The motor took four years to develop, and commercial production is expected in two years. Manufacturing firms in Japan were spurred to find alternatives to rare ...

Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, Metallurgy

New Software Allows Companies to Restrict What Employees Can Do on Their Cellphones

Dec 26, 2012

New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering ...

Tags: new software, Web security specialists, Blue Coat Systems, cellphones

The Same Day It Won a $368 Million Verdict in a Patent Infringement Case Against Apple

Dec 26, 2012

Computerworld - The same day it won a $368 million verdict in a patent infringement case against Apple, VirnetX filed a new lawsuit, alleging that the iPad Mini and iPhone 5 violate the same patents, according to court documents. The ...

Tags: patent infringement, Apple, VirnetX, patent

A Partnership of N.Y City Businesses Put out a Call for Innovative Financial Techologies

Dec 26, 2012

IDG News Service - A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies. Sponsored by The Partnership for New York City Fund and Accenture, the FinTech Innovation Lab seeks novel technologies ...

Tags: financial technologies, FinTech Innovation Lab, financial services

Is Your Browser up to Date?

Dec 26, 2012

PC World - Is your browser up to date? According to the results of a new survey from security software vendor Kaspersky, nearly a quarter of the browsers currently in use are out of date. Surfing the Web with a vulnerable browser is a ...

Tags: browser, security software, Kaspersky, vulnerable browser

CSO - It Happened More Than Three and a Half Years Ago

Dec 26, 2012

CSO - It happened more than three and a half years ago. So it presumably would be old news that Chinese hackers broke into soft-drink behemoth Coca-Cola's computer systems and stole confidential files relating to its effort to acquire the ...

Tags: Chinese hackers, Coca Cola, computer system, IT security

The First Rare-Earth Concentrate Had Been Fed Into The Kiln at Its LAMP in Kuantan.

Dec 26, 2012

After months of polemic and legal battles, Australian rare earths miner, Lynas (ASX:LYC), has finally begun production at its Malaysian processing plant following a recent court triumph. The company said Friday that the first rare-earth ...

Tags: Lynas, Malaysian, Rare Earths, Metallurgy

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