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- CES: Wireless payments at the register with your cell phone are around the corner
- After seeing the demonstration that Visa just gave me at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Im pretty sure it wont be too long before many of us will be paying for everything from our groceries to our Dunkin Donuts wirelessly with our cell phones. Visa had a "pod"...
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
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- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
- Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones statement. Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Heart pacemakers vulnerable to attack
- Heart pacemakers vulnerable to attackThis is misleadingThe former Guidant now Boston Scientific pacemakers are NOT exposed to these vulnerabilities as are some of their competitors. The communications to these devices is encrypted.RE: Heart pacemakers vulnerable to attackWow, this would be a great plot for a detective - murder mystery...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated
- Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- A single-photon channel to space
- According to the Institute of Physics IOP, European researchers have successfully identified individual returning photons from space 'after firing and reflecting them off of a space satellite in orbit almost 1,500 kilometers above the earth.' This experiment could lead to a global quantum-encrypted communications network in the future. In other...
- Blog posts 2008-03-29
- Dell launches abuse friendly laptop
- Dell launches abuse friendly laptopIf the military uses this in the field ...... it's not going to have Vista on it that's for damn sure, but some custom Unix or Linux OS. ;)Dude, it's a Toughbook!!I swear that thing looks exactly like a Panasonic Toughbook. And I am fairly...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Cellphones to monitor highway traffic
- On February 8, 2008, about 100 UC Berkeley students will participate in the Mobile Century experiment, using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors. During the whole day, these students carrying the GPS-equipped Nokia N95 will drive along a 10-mile stretch of I-880 between Hayward and Fremont, California. 'The phones will...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- White Paper: Near Field Communication
- Near Field Communication NFC offers tremendous potential, not only because it can roll out for mass adoption, but because of the number of different ways in which it can be used to make life easier. This paper provides background on NFC including an explanation of what the technology can achieve...
- White papers 2007-12-03
- Fast Times at Web 2.0 High
- Fast Times at Web 2.0 HighYoutube currently...is a collection of rubbish, with a few jems squeezed in, like needles in a haystack.I frankly dont have the time nor inclination to look for the jems.Search results have less than ideal relevance to me, so I've long since stopped bothering, and instead...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Open letter to e-mail vendors: Your spam fix doesn't work. Time for a complete redo?
- The makers of anti-spam solutions (be they stand-alone or ones that are built-in to existing e-mail solutions) would have you believe that their solutions are worthy of battling spam and merit your attention if ridding your inbox or inboxes of spam is important to you. They're full of it. The...
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Techies 'more unhappy than hairdressers'
- Techies 'more unhappy than hairdressers'Part of the problem is......a lot of computer people are in it for the money, not because they particularly like computers. Another part of the problem is that knowing a lot about computers is still seen as a social liability, particularly by corporate executives.Management is...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Are consultants a waste of money?
- Are consultants a waste of money?My personal opinion...for the most part, YUP! Maybe 5% of them are worth the money and time. But really if you want to know about a product, service or something else, do it yourself. It's cheaper and you don't run into other peoples agendas as...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Turning cars into wireless network nodes
- Everyday, our cars are using more computing technology, primarily for safety reasons. So why not turning them into computer nodes of a mobile network? This is what UCLA engineers are working on. According to them, this would just need the relatively low-cost addition of sensors to the vehicle's roof and...
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- How to kill open source
- How to kill open sourceConspiracy Theory?Are you saying that email/newsgroup spam is a plot by the megacorps to take over the internet?I would say more that it's a flaw in the original design of the networks. I just finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg ( http://tinyurl.com/35bc5o - classic stuff, one...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst
- Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- BlackBerry patent would save battery life by adding ambient light as screen backlight source
- Technology in a newly published BlackBerry patent application specifies a device that would supplement its self-generated backlighting system by collecting light from the surrounding area.In other words, a BlackBerry enabled in this manner would have backlit screen run by a combination of nternal power, as well as surrounding area...
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- An Application Framework for Efficient, Reliable and Secure Access to Memory Spot
- Memory Spot is a microchip developed by HP Labs at Bristol. Compared to Radio Frequency IDentification RFID devices, Smart Cards and other Near-Field Communication NFC devices, this chip provides much larger storage capacity, faster data transfer rate, and smaller physical dimensions. The chip is normally passive and is energized by...
- White papers 2007-04-18
- Given latest in OO-XML vs. ODF, Microsoft must reconsider its support for ODF
- There has been a flurry of recent activity in the battle between Office Open XML (OO-XML) and the OpenDocument Format ODF that could be swinging the tide in the latters global favor. The two are competing formats for the storage and retrieval of the different documents created by word processors,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- CES Big Picture #3: Oh ye cable, R.I.P. Wireless cometh and take ye away
- Its now going on two weeks since CES has ended and so far, Ive posted two big picture pieces; one on when size stopped mattering and the other on how Hi-Definitions virtuous circle is finally complete. Last week, I was at Mashup Camp 3 at MIT so I held off...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
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