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• Microsoft says new Kinect for Windows sensor coming in 2014
  Microsoft will make available a new Kinect sensor for Windows in 2014, officials said on May 23. The new Kinect for Windows sensor will include many of the technologies that Microsoft showed off in the Kinect for Xbox One product earlier this week. Microsoft is promising the Kinect for Windows sensor also will include higher fidelity, an expanded field of vi […]
• Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War
  Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified […]
• FiOS customer discovers the limits of "unlimited" data: 77TB a month
  Yes, Virginia, there is a limit to what Verizon will let you do with FiOS' "unlimited" data plan. And a California man discovered that limit when he got a phone call from a Verizon representative wanting to know what, exactly, he was doing to create more than 50 terabytes of traffic on average per month—hitting a peak of 77TB in March alone.Ta […]
• Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M
  When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public. People could download the email organizer, but using it required joining a mailing list that stretched to nearly 800,000 names at one point.Tags: DropboxIndustry News […]
• Spam and the Byzantine Empire: How Bitcoin tech REALLY works
  Why does Bitcoin work? Fraudsters should have left it in cinders years ago, and might have done, if it wasn’t for two things: spam and the Byzantine Empire. A Bitcoin is basically an entry in a ledger that is distributed across a network of computers. Bitcoins are transferred between parties by noting the transaction in the ledger. This might sound just like […]
• Tavis Ormandy bashes Microsoft's handling of security researchers, drops Windows zero-day
  A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability late Tuesday. "We are aware of claims regarding a potential issu […]
• 5 Steps To Implementing A Mobile Data Security Policy
  The safe and efficient exchanging of corporate files, is not a new problem. Not so long ago employees used USB keys to exchange information and the challenges for the IT department was locking USB ports and ensuring staff weren’t sending personal emails outside of the company.Tags: SecurityMobile […]
• Next-generation firewalls provide protection but add to workload
  A third of organisations have implemented a next-generation firewall to improve protection from attacks. According to a survey of 130 IT security professionals by AlgoSec, 57 per cent of respondents said that next-generation firewalls seemed to be adding protection but also increase the firewall management workload. The survey also found that 70 per cent of […]
• Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
  Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person’s computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too. Pitches like that, from a salesman for Nanjing Xhunter Software, were not uncommon at a crowded trade show […]
• Teenager creates device that could charge your phone in under 30 seconds
  With so many incredible advances in mobile technology, it can sometimes feel like progress in battery technology isn't exactly keeping up. While our mobile devices can do so much more today than simply make calls and send text messages, many of us often struggle to get through the day on a single battery charge when we make full use of our handset’s cap […]