If you think smartphones have made a big impact on our lives today, wait till you see what the computers of tomorrow are capable of. Peter Van Der Made, current Chief Scientist at vWISP based in Western Australia has spent over a decade ...
Tags: Computers, IBM, Internet Security
Eng. Omar Abdullah Al Nomany, Vice President of IT, STC Saudi Arabian STC this week inaugurated what it calls the largest information security control centre in the region to improve the security features of the telco’s systems and ...
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Windows Phone 8 is certain to catch on, and brings stability to the market, SAP's SVP of mobile solution management, Nick Brown, has told Computing. Speaking after yesterday's announcement of the firm's new M2M solution, Mobile Documents, ...
Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software. "We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week," wrote Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO. "As soon as we ...
Concealed security systems – such as those installed in banks, on machinery and at border controls – need to be designed so they are unobtrusive. This is a major challenge for infrared illumination in such applications because ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that, not only does its new infrared Oslon black SFH 4725S emit light at a wavelength of 940nm (making it virtually invisible to the human eye) but its black package reflects almost ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, has reported improved results for fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ending 28 December 2012). Revenue was $453.7m, up nearly 8% on last quarter’s $421.1m and 15% on ...
The infrared Oslon black SFH 4725S LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors has a wavelength of 940 nanometers, making it nearly invisible to the human eye, and its black package reflects virtually no ambient light. Together with its high optical ...
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number of devices that routinely use the Internet to function. Machine-to-machine (M2M) security is closely ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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LED lighting system costs can be reduced with good control circuit design and component selection, writes Fabrizio Petris from Omron Ellectronic Components Europe More and more buildings are installing low-power lighting in the ...
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Grid-Eye is an 8x8 MEMS thermopile array from Panasonic. "Unlike conventional single thermopile or pyroelectric sensors that only measure temperature at a certain point-of-contact, Grid-EYE enables contactless temperature detection ...
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Millstone Medical Outsourcing, a provider of clean room packaging services, has moved its Memphis operations to a new facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi, US. The new facility features150,000ft2 of operational space for mechanical ...
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Swann, a producer of do-it-yourself security monitoring solutions, announces the release of its new state-of-the-art high definition 1080p Network Video Recording (NVR) security systems, known as Platinum-HD. The Swann NVRs are capable of ...
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