Attackers are actively targeting Internet-connected industrial control systems (ICS) in an effort to compromise their operation, according to data collected from a global network of honeypot systems that simulate water pumps. The ICS ...
Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would permanently extend a current moratorium on Internet access taxes in the country. The Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, introduced Thursday, would also extend the U.S. ban on other ...
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The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
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In just a few short years, standards and guidelines have helped improve the quality of LED lamps, forcing manufacturers to produce better and more reliable lamps. This was not always the case for LED T8 lamps sold on the Internet, for their ...
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Audi has become the first manufacturer to bring the 4G LTE data transfer technology to the automotive market, and is on track to debut the feature in Australia in early 2014. LTE (long-term evolution) technology – more commonly ...
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Earnings trend underscores significant progress in corporate reorganization Revenue share of semiconductor-based products above 30 percent for the first time Osram raises earnings outlook slightly for current fiscal year Osram showed ...
US-based establishment Purity First Health Products is voluntarily recalling Healthy Life Chemistry branded health supplements over safety concerns, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The products subject to the ...
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Online furniture sales continue to tick up, increasing 11.1% in 2012 compared with the year prior according to comScore. Total retail online sales were $186.2 billion last year, up 15.3%. In 2011, online furniture sales comprised 8% of ...
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Judge & Jury, a confident breakaway brand reveals its Spring Summer ’14 collection being its strongest to date. The brand will be targeting the 18 – 28 year old market with a primary focus on the 18 – 23 year olds ...
Google has announced the company is in the process of migrating its SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] certificates from 1024-bit to 2048-bit levels of encryption. Google Identity Team's Tim Bray describes the decision as "part of our continuous ...
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An Android tablet brought back from North Korea by a tourist has provided a glimpse at some of the restrictions placed on IT users in the famously secretive country. The Samjiyon is the third tablet to have gone on sale in North Korea. It ...
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Microsoft is expanding the push for so-called "white spaces" broadband to South Africa, where it will help to deploy the technology in a pilot project serving five primary and secondary schools. The pilot project is aimed at getting ...
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology never sought a federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy who was charged with stealing millions of academic papers from an online archive at MIT, according to a report by the ...
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A variety of network-controlled home automation devices lack basic security controls, making it possible for attackers to access their sensitive functions, often from the Internet, according to researchers from security firm Trustwave. ...
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Phronetic Technologies, a prenatal technology startup formed to commercialize wearable computing solutions, announced it is one step closer to bringing the first prenatal smart wearable to the market. The company has announced plans to ...
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