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Posted by Techno-News Blog 7 hours 43 minutes ago.
By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
McAfee’s latest Mobile Security 2.0 enables remote data wipes, tracking and locks, as well as the ability to tell when applications are accessing personal data. McAfee introduced a new version of Mobile Security to prote...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 7 hours 49 minutes ago.
By Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
Storage is being looked at with new eyes as CIOs and CEOs see that storage is a critical component of managing big data, the Internet-of-things, cloud and analytics. Smarter storage is necessary for businesses to stay ahead as dat...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 7 hours 53 minutes ago.
By: Don Reisinger, eWeek
So, what happened And why is the enterprise suddenly resisting the purchase of RIM devices when over the years it had a dramatically different view on things Unfortunately for RIM, the reasons are numerous. By the look of things...
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by the BBC
A crackdown on “phishing” scams has been announced by 15 of the top technology companies. Email providers such as Google and Microsoft will work with companies like Paypal and the Bank of America to improve authentication. Phishing ...
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By Dave Lee, BBC
Israel handles over 1,000 attacks every minute, government advisors said. Israel, Finland and Sweden are seen as leading the way in “cyber-readiness”, according to a major new security report. The McAfee-backed cyberdefence su...
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by the White House
The public asked the questions, and President Obama answered in the first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House, presented by YouTube and Google+. This may open the door to further interactions using this technology.
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Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 7 hours ago.
By Rachel Metz. Technology Review
The market for sweetly named smart-phone assistants is heating up, as Siri, Apple’s iPhone-based virtual helper, just got a new “frenemy” named Evi. Created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based sem...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 7 hours ago.
by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
New Hanover County, North Carolina, just rolled out Super Wi-Fi, which is its actual name, not just a patronizing euphemism I’m deploying because I think you can’t handle “a new Wi-Fi standard opera...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 2 days 7 hours ago.
by Tim Maly, Technology Review
I’d like to sneak up on the question of 3-D printing by way of boring old 2-D printing. Typography used to be heavy industry. The companies that make typefaces are still called foundries because there was a time when l...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 7 hours ago.
By: Nathan Eddy, eWeek
A new rule imposed by Twitter that would see certain comments from particular countries censored is drawing the ire of many Twitter users. Twitter has said it could block a Tweet in a country where what was being said is illegal—i...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 7 hours ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search engine provider’s revised privacy policy. Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 3 days 7 hours ago.
By: Frank Ohlhorst, eWeek
Improvements to flash memory technology may spell the end for spinning media as the primary storage mechanism for enterprise tier 1 storage. When it comes to performance, flash-based memory has always been the undisputed king. Ho...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 7 hours ago.
By Tim Weber, BBC News
The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. Driving the spurt from $2.3tn (£1.5tn) to $4.2tn (£2.7tn) will be the rapid rise of mobile internet access. The study,...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 7 hours ago.
by the BBC
Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis. In its blog, Twitter said it could “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country”. But it said the remov...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 4 days 7 hours ago.
by the BBC
Facebook will begin the process of becoming a publicly-listed company this week, valuing the social networking site at between $75bn (£48bn) and $100bn, reports suggest. The company plans to file papers with the US financial watchdog on Wednes...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 7 hours ago.
By Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google risked drawing the ire of privacy pundits and federal regulators Jan. 24 with its augmented privacy policies. The practices, which kick-in March 1, call for a single, unified privacy policy to preside over 60 of Google’...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 7 hours ago.
By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google continued its wholesale integration of Google+ with its existing applications, launching Google Earth 6.2 with the capability to let users share their virtual images with their contacts on the social network. Google Earth 6...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 5 days 7 hours ago.
Jonathan Angel, eWeek
America’s first public “WhiteFi” network, leveraging spectrum previously occupied by analog TV channels, has been launched in North Carolina. Running at 1.5 to 3.1 MB/sec., the service will initially be used mostly ...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 6 days 7 hours ago.
By Don Reisinger, eWeek
The time has come once again to think seriously about Apple’s iPad. Only this time, the focus isn’t on the iPad 2 but on Apple’s iPad 3. That tablet, which is rumored to be launching in March or April, could very well be a gr...
Posted by Techno-News Blog 6 days 7 hours ago.
By: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it matters quite a bit that the Apple mothership isn’t here with her children. For the third consecutive year since t...
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