We all love our tablets and smartphones, but do our gadgets love us back? In the ergonomic sense, definitely not. It's nearly impossible to have good posture while using mobile technology. The rules we observed so religiously when we were ...
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BIG business is being targeted by cyber-criminals in "ransomware" attacks, threatening deletion or freezing of crucial business files unless money is paid. A new national survey of Australian big business reports that in September last ...
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Feeling panicky about the flu season? You’re not alone. Reports that this is the worst flu season in a decade have a lot of folks nervously clutching their hand sanitizer and considering just how weird they’d look wearing a ...
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We'll remember 2012 as being a banner year for driving enthusiasts. The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ twins took to the road, closely followed by the Ford Focus ST, a model whose track prowess we recently captured on video. The ST is Ford's ...
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A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $4 billion settlement hammered out between BP and the US government over the 2010 Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. US District Court Judge Sarah Vance issued the ruling after hearing ...
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A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued an emergency recall after cakes and other sweet products labelled under the brands Cake Factory Outlet and Clearance Cake Excess were produced in a factory contaminated from rat infestation. Rat ...
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Russia has threatened to ban imports of chilled meat from the US due to the presence of feed additive ractopamine, in the latest in a series of food safety complaints from the ex-Soviet power. Russia is considering a temporary ban on ...
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Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, security experts said this week, following the release of a number of very public vulnerabilities in Java, many of which still remain unpatched. “Oracle should just take a mulligan ...
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Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said Monday. "Oracle should just take a mulligan and redesign Java before ...
Infoworld - Oracle will have to fight a war of attrition to keep Java secure, a security analyst said this week in reflecting on the latest malady affecting the standard edition of Java. While Java is again under attack, as it has been ...
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Lightolier is a company that manufactures and sells a wide array of lighting fixtures. It was founded in 1904 by Bernhard Blitzer under the name of New York Gas and Appliance Co. When electric lighting started to be more widely accepted, ...
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Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands of user accounts. The malicious hacking group known as GNAA claimed responsibility. The ...
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Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the department that oversees three airports in the LA area, recently implemented a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). As part of the effort, the ...
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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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