Software mitigation techniques are an important element of layered security for enterprises, says Jonathan Ness, security development manager at Microsoft. Enterprises can use software mitigations to harden the operating system (OS) and ...
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HSBC's online banking app for businesses is now available on Google's Android mobile operating system.(OS) The Business Banking app–which is already available on Apple and Blackberry devices–will now be accessible to hundreds ...
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Motorola Solutions is buying Psion for$200m in a cash offer. London-based Psion has been a significant player in the mobile device market since the 1980s,having designed the first PDA.It was also a key partner in the development of the ...
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Computerworld-European Union(EU)antitrust regulators today threatened Microsoft with more fines,potentially massive ones in the billions of dollars,after the company failed to make good on its promise to offer consumers there a choice of ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has won a motion to dismiss a seven-year-old,$1.3 billion lawsuit from Novell charging Microsoft with illegal antitrust actions around its Windows 95 release. In his ruling,U.S.District Judge Frederick Motz ...
Nokia is to sell its UK-based Vertu,luxury mobile phone business,as part of major changes to its mobile business which will see 10,000 jobs go. Nokia has agreed terms for private equity group,EQT VI to acquireVertu which is headquartered ...
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Apple has given Dutch satnav firm TomTom a boost by using the firm's mapping technology to replace Google's in the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6. Industry analysts believe the move could help revive TomTom, which ...
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The controllers of Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date,have recently sent a kill command that removes the malware from some infected computers. However,the attackers are still in control of some ...
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Microsoft will support Ubuntu and OpenSuse virtual machines on the latest version of its Azure cloud service. In a massive departure from its previous stance,the company appears to be supporting open source tools and the Linux operating ...
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Microsoft has released a security update for its Windows operating system to block three fraudulent certificates used by Flame,the most powerful cyber weapon discovered to date. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab,who discovered Flame ...
Texas Instruments has introduced a fingerprint recognition and face detection development kit based on its real-time DSP which comes with biometrics analysis software,preloaded. The C6748 DSP development kit incorporates the firm's C6748 ...
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Digital signal processors have a role to play in smart grid applications such as advanced power analytics,PLC and wireless communications,write Thanh Tran and Gustavo Martinez. The aim of the'smart grid'is to increase the efficiency of ...
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RF and mixed-signal semiconductor maker Anadigics Inc of Warren,NJ,USA is shipping production volumes of its AWT6621,AWT6624,AWT6625A,and AWT6628A fourth-generation High-Efficiency-at-Low-Power(HELP4)power amplifiers(PAs)to Chinese handset ...
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Accelrys, a scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, has purchased the web-based drug discovery information management technology, Hit Explorer Operating System (HEOS) from Scynexis. HEOS is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...
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MIPS is taking ARM's Cortex-A series and Cortex-M4 head-on with three microprocessor cores:proAptive,interAptive and microAptive. "We have done a large amount of development across our entire portfolio,"MIPS product director Mark ...
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