Philips Hue LED bulbs and other smart home devices that incorporate ZigBee wireless standards are vulnerable to hacking, according to recent findings by IT firm Cognosec. At a Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas recently Cognosec senior ...
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Dell has unveiled enterprise mobility software for Google Android or Apple iOS that supports BYOD use by selectively applying VPN controls only to the corporate apps on the device, not the employee’s personal apps. The Secure Mobile ...
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GPU manufacturer Nvidia made a series of code contributions to the open-source project Nouveau late last week, signaling a possible thawing of relations with the Linux community. The company's support for its Linux drivers has long been a ...
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Smartvue Corporation, a cloud video surveillance company, today announced it won the Mobility Award for Mobile Video Surveillance presented at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. The official CES event was judged by over 60 analysts from ...
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Devices running Google’s Android operating system accounted for 81% of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2013, according to a study released today by IDC. Of the more than 261 million units shipped, just under ...
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Verizon’s network wasn’t ready for the flood of new traffic that it had to deal with after the company rolled out LTE service, admitted CFO Fran Shammo. Speaking on a conference call with investors hosted by Wells Fargo on ...
Amazon Web Services this week released its new cloud-based data analytics tool Kinesis, which can analyse large amounts of data in real time and be paid for by the hour. Kinesis is an application that sits in the cloud and receives data ...
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested another US$15.50 million into future R&D of semiconductors and chips, according to a blog entry by Michael Cooney, Online News Editor for Network World. The funds will be ...
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A Canadian IT consultancy has announced that it will soon begin selling an Ubuntu laptop that “never needs to be plugged in,” thanks to solar power. The SOL, as WeWi Telecommunications dubs the device, is designed to be used in ...
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Cisco is building a router for the Internet of Everything, the company's initiative to connect the billions of devices – or 99 percent of the world – that it claims?isn't already connected. As disclosed at?Cisco Live?three ...
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A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage. Essentially, according to MIT ...
Network World - Like it or not, IT departments are accepting the fact that employees are bringing smartphones, tablets, and personal laptops to work and that they will use these devices while on the job. To cope with this reality, savvy ...
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Attendees flooded the Habtoor Grand in Dubai today as CNME played host to the region's first ever dedicated big data event; the Big Data Symposium. Though very few companies have yet to implement big data solutions, the curiosity, ...
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Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. "We routinely review our business to ...
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Despite what he sees as shortcomings of Microsoft’s real-time communications platform, Lync, businesses will see value to some of its features, and supplement those with products from Avaya, says Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy. “Are ...