Samsung has announced a new addition to its SSD lineup in the shape of the Samsung SSD T1, a solid state drive wrapped up in a compact portable package. Conventional 2.5in SSD drives are inherently portable thanks to being relatively ...
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Intel Corporation, America’s top semiconductor chips manufacturing company, has launched Intel Data Protection Technology for Transactions solution for end-to-end encryption of consumer and financial data for online retailers. The ...
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As handy apps continue their inexorable rise, they are increasingly found in industrial applications as well. As early as 2012, HERMA notched up an industry first with an app that allowed labellers to be set up from a smartphone or tablet. ...
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Oracle has issued a comprehensive list of its software that may or may not be affected by the OpenSSL (secure sockets layer) vulnerability known as Heartbleed, while warning that no fixes are yet available for some likely affected products. ...
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BlackBerry continued to struggle during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, experiencing a huge drop in revenue and a $423 million net loss. Revenue for the fourth quarter of BlackBerry’s fiscal 2014, which ended March 1, was ...
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Automotive technology supplier Robert Bosch is developing technologies to make cars an acitve part of the internet, in order to improve the comfort, safety, and efficiency. In this project, the company is pursuing three strategic ...
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If you are basking in the convenience of doing an online bank transfer at a coffee house while spooning the cream off a designer special, consider the tradeoff, which is placing your personal data at risk. Also consider yourself warned by ...
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FreedomPop's $189 Privacy Phone is built from a Samsung Galaxy II Android smartphone. Related FreedomPop FreedomPop Launches $4.58/Month Unlimited Voice, Text Plan FreedomPop FreedomPop Launches Its First LTE Device FreedomPop FreedomPop ...
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Bitcoin has been in the headlines a lot lately due first to news that criminals have been using it for transactions, and more recently because of the collapse of its biggest currency exchange. Now comes news of a new type of virtual ...
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The electronics industry has adopted a wealth of practices to foil or at least identify counterfeit components, from marking to x-raying. Now the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling upon engineers to ...
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A computer-scientist friend of mine opined long ago that the Internet will truly come of age only when he can download a beer. He was referring to the last-meter problem of online shopping: that of getting stuff through the door of an ...
We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
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The Facebook deal for WhatsApp drew attention for its whopping price tag, but has also brought out fresh criticism over security for the billions of messages delivered on the platform. WhatsApp, which is to be acquired for $19 billion, ...
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The U.S. government, finally realizing that it has to take action to ensure a minimum level of cybersecurity in networks that manage the nation's energy, water and financial services, presented the Framework for Improving Critical ...
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It's a fully encrypted smartphone that aims to foil snooping governments, industry rivals and hackers. It's also a sleek, attractive device that fits in your pocket and can impress friends and colleagues, according to its makers. The ...
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