Infoworld - When it comes to IT security, FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) is more than just the tool of overhyping vendors hoping to sell their next big thing. It is the reality that seasoned IT security pros live in, thanks in large ...
Tags: IT security, FUD, Paul Ferguson, antivirus scanner
Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Torbay Care Trust (TCT) £175,000 for a data breach it said was "entirely avoidable". The Trust, based in Devon, had published "sensitive details" of over 1,000 employees on its ...
Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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Cordless power tool performance ultimately comes down to battery performance, and last year at this time claims by one tool manufacturer about their batteries sounded pretty boastful. Figures like 40 per cent longer run time between charges ...
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Current internet subscription business models are ineffective, and are holding up development of services in the UK, fibre communications firm Level 3 has told Computing. James Taylor, EMEA content service product manager at Level 3, ...
For second-quarter 2012,GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components including modulator and laser drivers and transimpedance amplifier ICs based on III-V materials)has reported an 11th ...
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Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
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For second-quarter 2012,AXT Inc of Fremont,CA,USA has reported revenue of$25.2m,up 7%on$23.5m last quarter but down 16%on$30m a year ago. Fiscal Q2/2011 Q3/2011 Q4/2011 Q1/2012 Q2/2012 Quarterly revenue$30.0m $28.3m$21.2m$23.5m$25.2m ...
Tags: AXT Inc, secondQuarter 2012, GaAs Growth of 22 percent
Engel Austria GmbH recently launched a new line of injection molding machine, the e-mac all-electric machine, for precise production of technical parts. Machines with clamping forces of 50, 75 and 100 are already available in the market, ...
Computerworld - Seagate's stock price dropped 8% today after the company announced it expects weak first-quarter performance based on slowing PC sales. The news followed a lack-luster quarter, which Seagate reported yesterday. Seagate ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail as Outlook.com is a move by the company to hold its first-place position in free email while pushing the domain as more of a consumer destination,an analyst said today. Earlier ...
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Computerworld - today announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) targeted at users who want to upgrade older computer systems with a flash drive that boasts a price well under $1 per gigabyte of capacity. Crucial's new v4 SSD, which is ...
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Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the ...
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SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
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