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Flame Malware Scorches Systems Across the Middle East

"Flame would be easy to discover for multiple elements of an intrusion defense system, so if a nation-state was behind it, they clearly didn't plan it well or want it to actually work," Joe Jaroch, vice president of endpoint solutions engineering at Webroot, told TechNewsWorld...

MED TECH

Paralyzed Woman Takes Sip of Joe Using Mind-Powered Robo Arm

Researchers have developed a robotic arm that has enabled a paralyzed woman to drink a cup of coffee -- by directly controlling it with her mind. The development has raised the question of whether this approach could perhaps restore some mobility to similarly affected people in the future ...

OPINION

Will Apple or Google Buy Sprint to Break Into the Wireless Network Biz?

New CEO Joe Clayton is focusing more on building the DISH brand. Good idea DISH has lots of opportunity with the changing pay television market and the Blockbuster chain of video rental stores it recently acquired.

DHS Sounds Alarm on Gas Line Cyberthreat

"It isn't clear whether the pipelines themselves were affected, as opposed to the business networks of the pipeline companies," Joe Weiss, an industrial control security consultant with Applied Control Solutions, told TechNewsWorld "There is all kinds of monitoring for phishin...

Nvidia Levels Up With New Gaming Graphics Card

"For a grand, I can't see this as anything but a boutique product at this point," said Joe Rybicki, freelance video game consultant. "Prices will come down, and eventually the new tech may have a wider impact, but at the moment this strikes me as the opposite of a game-changer. By that I mean it digs high-end PC gaming deeper into its secluded burrow."

Amazon: Hey, Gang – Let’s Put On a Show!

Entertainment industry veteran Joe Lewis is leading the new series development, along with Tara Sorensen, formerly with National Geographic Kids. Amazon did not respond to our request for further details.

CONFERENCE REPORT

Burying Conventional Wisdom at The Next Web Conference

First up at 10:00 was Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb, who set the day's theme of counterintuitive thinking by rehashing how cereal, of all things, played an integral roll in springboarding his company, recently valuated at US$1 billion ...

EXPERT ADVICE

Harnessing Big Data Through Customer Intelligence

Driving revenue performance and applying data in order to influence/generate buying behavior throughout the customer life cycle is not new -- it's an ongoing goal. Real-time marketing, which relies on capturing data in real time, improves revenue performance and is the optimal way to drive 1:1 customer interaction throughout the customer life cycle. However, real-time is highly complex and costly, and its transactional nature is not directly applicable to many industries, products and services. As a result, it remains an elusive goal...

Sizing Up CISPA’s Security Bona Fides

When asked for comment, Facebook spokesperson Andrew Noyes referred TechNewsWorld to a blog post by Joel Kaplan, the company's vice president of U.S. public policy. That post was supportive of CISPA CTIA president and CEO Steve Largent and CEOs from wireless companies that col...

Adobe Squeezes More Security Into – and More Cash Out of – Flash

"All I can say [about the silent update option] is, it's about time," Joe Levy, chief technology officer of Solera Networks, told TechNewsWorld. "Not two days ago, a colleague and I were joking that Flash should be an on-demand, ephemeral installable rather than something that's system-resident, too often outdated, and frequently exploited. Auto-updates are a very welcome and perfectly reasonable compromise."

Congressional Hearing Pits Small Fries Against Comm Giants on Spectrum Buy

"We already have a wireless market that's trending towards a duopoly," Joel Kelsey, policy advisor at Free Press, told the E-Commerce Times. "We don't have a model for protecting consumers in that environment. Right now we rely on competition to discipline prices, and if this trend towards a duopoly continues, consumers are left without that protection." ...

Amazon Hires Robots to Ship Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Whether that investment can pay off remains to be seen, agreed Joe Bonner, an analyst at Argus Research "It's not initially going to cut down on costs," Bonner told the E-Commerce Times. "But maybe over the long term, if the productivity gains are as advertised, it can help in...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

The Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift Is Bigger Than IT

"The issue of SLAs is familiar to cloud providers, so that should not be a big issue in terms of the concept," Joe Brown, president of Accelera Solutions, told CRM Buyer. "But federal agency personnel might need some training and assistance to help understand what the SLAs mean." ...

iOS Smokes Android in HTML5 Drag Race

Apple and Microsoft were on to that idea before Google, even though Google is hoping that with its Chrome browser the system can run faster, according to Joe Lind, principal developer at Terrible Labs "Apple committed to HTML5 when they decided not to allow Flash on iOS," Lind...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Data Breach? Try Rubbing Some Free Credit Services on It

However, the unit was unable to finger the perpetrator of the RSA attack. "The only thing we can say is these attackers have something in common; they both have access to a certain infrastructure," Joe Stewart, director of malware research, told TechNewsWorld Where did the nam...

Are Security Vendors Living in Glass Houses?

"There is a good probability that other vendors have been compromised, but they determined that the risk of staying quiet was lower than the risk of going public," Joel Bomgar, founder and CEO of Bomgar, told TechNewsWorld For Want of a Nail ...

WikiLeaks Splays Stratfor Wide Open

It's not possible to defend fully against breaches, because "breaches happen," said Joe Levy, chief technology officer of Solera Networks. Instead, companies have to employ "data devaluation" in their information systems to reduce the value of stolen information, he told TechNewsWorld...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

The Great Google Cookie Caper

"This is not a very serious security issue," added Symantec Security Response Engineering Director Joe Chen If a user is concerned about the issue, he told TechNewsWorld, there are antivirus programs that will alert a user when any website tries to push a third-party cookie to...

Senate Bill Would Give DHS a Cybersecurity Whip

The offices of Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein, a cosponsor of the bill, did not respond to our request for further details About the Cybersecurity Act of 2012...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

FBI Looking to ‘Friend’ Terrorists

Such confusion over an alleged cyberattack on the infrastructure isn't unusual, according to Joe Weiss of Applied Control Solutions. "Control system engineers just don't have the tools that IT has to say, 'yea and verily, a cyber attack occurred,'" he told TechNewsWorld....

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