2806Amazon’s Kindle Fire: Hope or hype?
The culmination of 17 years of work, the Kindle Fire is the missing piece of the company's vast corporate puzzle, bringing into harmony nearly every discordant service the company has built since CEO Jeff Bezos first set up shop in his garage in 1994. The Fire reads e-books, shops online, downloads movies and music. It surfs the Web with a cloud-based web.....
Read More2506Smartphone Detects Danger in a Heartbeat!
London (CNN) - A new medical invention which harnesses the power of smartphone technology could
revolutionize the treatment of heart patients, according to researchers in Switzerland. The autonomous tool - developed
jointly by the Embedded Systems and Telecommunications Circuits labs at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL) - not only automatically identifies anomalies in heart-rate, but also alerts doctors in seconds helping them
treat patients more quickly."Many of the problems with the heart are not very well understood,"
says David Atienza,
head of the Embedded Systems Lab.....
2506Happy Halloween! Anti-Hack Tips!
Happy Halloween, A few tips today on some steps you can take to increase security on your website and protect your data. 1. Protect your website by keeping your database server and web servers on different machines. Make sure you keep up to date with all the latest releases for your servers and limit interactions between your servers. 2. Hide your email address. To reduce spam do not let anyone know what your email address is. Spybots and SPAM bots crawl through the web hunting for personal information and email addresses from websites. Change the coding in your website to make your information unrecognizable.....
Read More2106Facebook tracks you even after you’ve logged out
Hacker Nik Cubrilovic is reporting on his blog that Facebook can still track the websites you visit even after you have logged out of the social networking site. Cubrilovic conducted a series of tests, which showed that Facebook only modifies the tracking cookies instead of deleting them once you log out. It appears that your account information is still contained within the cookies so that whenever you visit a website that features a Facebook share button or widget, your browser sends information back to Facebook. Cubrilovic told VentureBeat: "They definitely have the information stored. As to what they do with it, you can.....
Read More2106The iPhone 5 is coming, is your business ready?
In the world of tech, Internet rumors often turn into cold hard facts-sometimes overnight. With Apple, a company that never pre-announces products, gossip about the iPhone 5 coming this month (or next) have persisted for some time.Most experts agree: all signs point to an imminent release. The companies that make iPhone accessories have hinted at a new device, and the timing makes sense for a pre-holiday release of the next wonderphone that will surely astound.So what is a business to do? According to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, the answer......
Read More2806AT&T to activate faster 4G network on Sunday
AT&T Mobility is saddling up for the initial launch of its faster fourth-generation data services. The 4G LTE network is set to debut on Sunday, said John Stephens, AT&T's financial chief, at a conference on Thursday. \AT&T said earlier that the network will debut in five cities, reaching 70 million people. The launch cities are Atlanta, \Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, Texas.AT&T began selling two gadgets last month that were designed to connect \to its 4G LTE network. Cellular carriers don't typically release products tailored to networks that aren't yet accessible \to.........
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