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Beyond Simple Total Cost of Ownership
Check out this white paper to learn how today's investments have moved past total cost of ownership.
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British police can now hack citizens' PCs
Seems like Britain's Home Office is channeling Dick Cheney. Last week I wrote that the U.K. is going forward with a plan to build a massive database of every phone call, email and chat...
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Nightclub security uses Facebook for identification
In an attempt to combat fake IDs, some nightclub bouncers are now asking for Facebook identification.
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City Peaks uses community gaming to keep you fit at the office
Design studio Digit has created a social game, City Peaks to encourage you to take the stairs to work, mapping your journey to an ascent to some of the highest virtual peaks in the city.
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Wi-Fi Protected Setup is Busted
You know that easy to setup Wi-Fi access point or router of yours? It turns out that the easy to setup part is also easy to hack: Really easy to hack.
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The future according to Big Blue
IBM unveils its annual list of five emerging technologies that will supposedly change our lives in the next five years.
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Death of the Password? Markus Jakobsson and Jason Perlow discuss with the CBC
Jason Perlow and computer security researcher Markus Jakobsson discuss the problems with passwords and computer security with Canada's "The Current" on CBC Radio
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SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: injectable implants, urban acupuncture, superbug drugs
SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: injectable implants, urban acupuncture, superbug drugs and more in a news roundup from our friends at SmartPlanet.
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SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: battlefield biometrics, renewable railways, artificial lung
SmartPlanet's Week in Innovation: biometrics on the battlefield, renewables-powered trains, artificial lungs and more in a news roundup from our friends at SmartPlanet.
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Anonymous releases private emails, government contracts, VPN credentials, and more
Rogue hacker group Anonymous has released a slew of information from government contractor IRC Federal. See their release notes and find out the specifics of the leak here.
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If a surveillance society is inevitable, can privacy measures embedded in systems?
The influx of data and the analytics systems that will go with them means we're headed for a surveillance society. Enter a big idea called privacy by design, from one of IBM's researchers.
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Google, Facebook: End Passwords, Get Biometrics. Now!
With the multitudes of accounts we have to deal with for email, social networking and other applications that require password authentication, we need a better solution.
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Australia deals for poker machine biometrics
Australia's prime minister threatens regulations unless biometric technology is not in place fo control the use of "pokies."
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Really, Really Tracking Your Documents
But sure enough, RFID tags have made their way into documents so they can be physically tracked as they move through an organization. Fascinating stuff, actually, and an interesting way to know...
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The Tech Scares That Weren't: Urban Myths of Technology
Technology is scary! Turn off the lights, wrap yourself up in a blanket, and prepare to be terrified! Or mildly concerned. You know, whatever.
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Researchers hack toys, iPhone
Researchers at the ToorCon security conference in San Diego have shown how easy it can be to poke holes in software and hardware with the right tools, know-how and curiosity.
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Information Clutter Busting & Organization
Remember when you had a new digital device with an enormous amount of storage space on it compared to your previous version? Way back around 1993 I remember buying a one hundred meg hard drive...
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Apricorn expands Aegis Bio hardware-encrypted biometric HDD to 640GB
If you have a lot of classified information that you need to protect, listen up. Apricorn's Aegis Bio hardware-encrypted biometric HDD is now larger and has so much security that it might even...
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RFID implant opens doors for IT pro
A 28-year-old Perth IT professional has become one of the few Australians to have a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in the hand.
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RFID attendance - brilliant or nuts?
Northern Arizona University is using RFIDs to track student attendance. While this might actually make some sense in certain secondary school settings, it's a hard pill to swallow for paying adults.
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IT is industrializing: What does that mean to me?
Like many movements before it, IT is rapidly evolving to an industrial model. A process or profession becomes industrialized when it matures from an art form to a widespread, repeatable function...
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