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Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns
Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.
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Teens Getting Creative With Web 2.0 Tools
A pilot study shows that teens were able to use Web 2.0 technological tools in new and innovative ways to connect with each other—ways that the tools' creators...
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Cyber Command: We Don
Members of the military’s new Cyber Command insist that they’ve got no interest in taking over civilian Internet security--or even in becoming the Pentagon’s primary...
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Wireless Revolution May Reach Inside Microchips
Wireless technology is often credited with making us more productive. Now it looks like it could also improve the inner workings of our computers. Wireless transmission...
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Mobile Data: A Gold Mine For Telcos
Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.
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Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in...
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U...
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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Robots Are the Key to Stopping the Oil Spill
At its greatest depths, the sea floor is a dark, tranquil, and foreboding place, beyond the reach of both sunlight and human divers. Yet the area around the Deepwater...
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Major Step Ahead For Cryptography
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Katholieke University have developed a new system for encrypted data computing that they say could have a broad impact...
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The Automotive Internet, From Vision to Reality
The European Union-funded CVIS project aims to deploy an advanced communications infrastructure that can facilitate new ways to drastically upgrade the safety,...
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App Watch: Searching Without Words
At some point, scientists think, you’ll be able to point a lens at almost any object and get information about what you’re seeing.
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Communications Law to Be Reviewed
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) announced Monday (May 24) that they would hold hearings to examine how the Communications Act...
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Danger in the Internet Cafe?
University of Calgary computer science professors have identified a type of security threat that gains access to computers through wireless networks found in Internet...
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How Apps, Texting Can Improve Your Health
Before iPhones, Foursquare and Facebook, B.J. Fogg envisioned a mobile fitness device that coaches the user, tracks her location, and shows her friends also exercising...
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Eye Tracking For Mobile Control
It's hard sending a text message with arms full of groceries or while wearing winter gloves. Voice control is one alternative to using your fingers, but researchers...
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Risk of Cyberattacks Growing: Csis Memo
A secret memo from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warns that the risk of cyberoffensives against government, university, and industrial computer...
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