The UK’s Draft Data Communications Bill – aimed at making it easier for authorities to spy on electronic communications – will be ineffective against terror, says the Information Commissioner’s Office. Information ...
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Microsoft has acquired mobile authentication solutions provider PhoneFactor, which it hopes will help it to offer secure mobile business applications for enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Further reading ...
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In an era when wireless data and phone service can cost a U.S.contract customer more than$1,200 annually,some lower-cost pre-paid options are emerging. AT&T Minday unveiled the GoPhone plan,which offers unlimited talk and text with 1GB of ...
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Police across Europe could soon find themselves monitoring Facebook,Google and Twitter for content related to terrorism. A leaked report about a"Clean IT"initiative by the European Union(EU)revealed the plan for police officers ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has slammed as"technologically incompetent"the Draft Data Communications Bill,which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails,phone calls and internet activity of UK citizens. ...
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In the wake of Apple's crushing patent victory against Samsung in court late last week,Reuters reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook has been having secret phone calls with Google CEO Larry Page(pictured). According to sources close to the ...
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Australian telecommunications company AAPT has confirmed some business customer data was compromised in a breach of computer systems at an external service provider. The telco began investigating after hacktivist group Anonymous ...
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Orange today announced it would provide 2G and 3G services in the Channel Tunnel, enabling both Eurostar foot passengers and Eurotunnel drivers to use their phones under the stretch of water. The 53km stretch of rail between Calais and ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has created an online tool which lists 1,000 transactional government services. The development is likely to be a key step toward digital public services as the data it provides will help Whitehall ...
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Positec, a China-based manufacturer of power tools, lawn and garden equipment and accessories, is set to begin selling its products in Wal-Mart stores this fall, says Positec Chief Executive Tom Duncan. It will start with fall clean-up ...
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UK-In the far south-west of Cornwall,within a deep valley,lies a large white building and a small concrete hut-an incongruous setting for a site of historical national importance.Now forming the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum,this is the point ...
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Anchor store Sears Appliances and Hardware will lock its doors for good this Friday, right before Memorial Day weekend. A fixture in North Lindenhurst since opening in 1997, Sears Hardware officially closed it doors to the general public on ...
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You could be fooled into thinking that manufacturers have never seen a specification sheet from a lighting designer given that the information they provide online is extremely scant in the majority of cases. Last week we were writing a ...
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Fraunhofer IPMS—COMEDD is active in R&D of OLED microdisplays for several years.Key applications are interactive see-through head-mounted displays(HMD)e.g.for data eye-glasses,based on IPMS/COMEDD's patented''bidirectional''OLED ...
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