Enterprises want the best value from their investments and will try to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their datacentres in 2013, according to a study from analyst Ovum. The sustainable datacentre market will see accelerated ...
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When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
The Information Commissioner's Office is to investigate claims that Tesco's website does not offer sufficient privacy protections to customers. The UK privacy watchdog's probe comes after security experts raised a number of privacy ...
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The EU is to tell Google to change the way it gathers information on users to reduce the risk of infringing on their privacy. After a nine-month investigation into Google's business model, which depends on advertisements tailored to users ...
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Computerworld - Congress might need to pass legislation to limit the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said recently. The growing use of facial recognition ...
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Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. The growing use of facial recognition technology ...
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ISACA has outlined what it believes will be the key trends organisations will face in 2013.With the financial climate set to remain in'crisis mode'for the foreseeable future,greater collaboration,cheaper infrastructure,information overload ...
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While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has entered the mainstream with 70 percent of smartphone-owning professionals using their personal devices to access corporate data, almost 80 percent of today’s BYOD activity remains ...
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More than half of all mobile-phone app users surveyed have either declined to download an available app or deleted one from their device because of concerns about the collection of their personal data, according to the survey released ...
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Privacy advocates this week said they are dismayed, but not surprised about a New York Criminal Court judge's decision ordering Twitter to hand over all the data it has on an Occupy Wall Street protester being investigated for disorderly ...
Hitachi has introduced a 36x zoom camera module for security. Called VK-S655N/EN, it uses a progressive-scan CCD sensor and includes auto and manual focus as well as image stabilisation to compensate for vibration or camera movement. ...
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The U.S.Senate will not move forward on a cybersecurity bill. The Senate voted 51-47 to end debate and move to a final vote on the Cybersecurity Act,but 60 votes were needed to advance the bill.The Senate had also failed to move forward ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong-Like technologies deployed in a corporate environment,those used in healthcare are meant to improve services and productivity.On its new clinical management system(CMS 3),the Hospital Authority aims to create new ...
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Microsoft and Google are to feel the full force of EU regulations this month as antitrust and privacy concerns threaten to catch up with the technology giants. The EU could issue Microsoft with a formal antitrust complaint, after it ...
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