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Submission + - Samsung: Apple wouldn't have sold a single iPhone without stealing our tech (bgr.com) 1

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: Another day, another Apple (AAPL) vs. Samsung (005930) trial. The two consumer electronics companies are preparing to do battle in San Jose, California next week, and now-public court documents shed light on the positions each firm is taking. On Tuesday, Apple told Samsung exactly what it thinks its technology patents are worth (spoiler: barely anything at all), and subsequent filings from Samsung reveal that the South Korea-based company has a few choice words for Apple as well...
Blackberry

Submission + - Will RIM survive the patent minefield? (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: BlackBerry maker Research in Motion – once the biggest force in enterprise mobility – is hanging on by the skin of its teeth. Not only are profits down and the BlackBerry 10 OS been delayed, but the company has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to pay $147.2 million in damages.

This may seem minor in the context of wider software patent wars underway in the United States, but the ruling is an expensive distraction at a time when RIM needs to put all its energy into perfecting the BlackBerry 10 operating system.
United Kingdom

Submission + - Wimbledon puts new topspin on 3D motion tracking (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Professional tennis players could soon be alerted to lower back injury before they feel any pain, thanks to 3D motion tracking technology that can monitor the movement of the spine during a serve. Sports engineers at Loughborough University have teamed up with the Lawn Tennis Association and Charnwood Dynamics, which develops 3D movement analysis solutions, to capture the service action of a number of high-level tennis players, including Junior Wimbledon finalist Liam Broady, during the Wimbledon qualifiers. It is thought that a service action with excessively high levels of back extension (bending backwards), lateral flexion (side stretching) and rotation (twisting), combined with high levels of acceleration, could contribute to an athlete’s risk of injury.
Science

Submission + - Mind-Reading Invention Let's You Type With Your Brain (gizmocrazed.com)

Submitted by Diggester
Diggester writes: A group of Researchers at Universiteit Maastricht's Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience Department of Neurocognition have had enough because they have invented a system that translates thoughts into letters.
This really is an incredible breakthrough for any type of handicap, from serious motor impairment to debilitating speech. The system has been in real-world testing and is an extraordinary success. The patients are set-up to looks at a screen of the alphabet, thinking about each letter for a period of time, then they should be able to think-type in real time. While it is not near the speed of actual typing, it is the only program of it's kind and can only get better.
Books

Submission + - UK company demos colour video animation on electronic paper (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Plastic electronics company Plastic Logic has demonstrated colour video animation on a flexible plastic display, which it claims is the first example of an organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) driving electronic paper at video rate. The demonstration proves that the potential uses of electronic paper extend far beyond monochrome text-based e-readers to more sophisticated tablet-style devices that can run colour video, while still keeping power consumption low.
Intel

Submission + - Intel turns London into testbed for smart technologies (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Intel has announced the launch of a new research institute to promote sustainable connected cities, in collaboration with Imperial College London and University College London. The research unit will be tasked with creating new technologies to make cities more sustainable and improve their inhabitants’ quality of life. Using London as a test bed, researchers will employ real-time user and city infrastructure data to improve efficiency, according to Intel.

Researchers will focus on applying computing technologies to enhance cities from a social, economic and environmental point of view. The institute will engage with local communities to understand how they want to live and involve them in designing technological innovations. Intel said these innovations will include making cities more “aware and adaptive” by harnessing data gathered through sensor technologies embedded in city infrastructure and data shared by communities. The institute will use this data to develop models for more sustainable behaviour, including community energy management or water conservation.
Cloud

Submission + - IBM dumps Siebel in favour of open-source SugarCRM (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: IBM is planning to replace its Siebel based customer relationship management products with software owned by open-source software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor SugarCRM. This is the second major contract loss for Siebel, as HP recently revealed that it too would be replacing the platform with products provided by SaaS vendor Salesforce.com. However, the changes are perhaps unsurprising given that Siebel was bought by Oracle in 2005 for £3.5 billion.
Privacy

Submission + - UK Tory MP calls for RIPA powers to be revoked (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Conservative party MP David Davis has said that the powers of unwarranted intelligence, surveillance and interception granted in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) should be revoked.

Speaking at the 'Scrambling for Safety' conference at the London School of Economics (LSE) yesterday, Davis slammed the government's plans to allow intelligence services to monitor all internet activity in real time, claiming that most ministers “do not know one end of a machine from another”.

At the same event, tech experts including Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, said that the government's proposal to separate communications data from content is impractical.
Security

Submission + - Tech experts rubbish UK gov't web snooping tactics (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: The UK government's proposal to separate communications data from content, as part of new plans to allow intelligence services to monitor all internet activity, is infeasible according to a panel of technology experts.

Speaking at the 'Scrambling for Safety' conference in London, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, said that the distinction between traffic data as being harmless and content as being sensitive is becoming less and less relevant.

“Now that people are living more and more of their lives online, the pattern of who you communicate with and in what order gives away pretty well everything,” he said. “This means that, in data protection terms, traffic data is now very often going to be specially sensitive data.”
The Military

Submission + - Dual-focus eyewear to make augmented reality battlefield-ready (gizmag.com) 1

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: The iOptik display system, consisting of modified contact lenses and glasses, promises to revolutionize head-mounted display-based augmented reality by allowing the wearer to focus on two planes at the same time. Innovega, the company behind the project, developed their ultra-small form-factor head-up display (HUD) setup in frames of DARPA’s Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC) program, and has now signed a contract with the agency to deliver a prototype.
Software

Submission + - Will DevOps be as big as Cloud and Big Data? (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: The notion of DevOps could become as prevalent as Cloud Computing or Big Data, according to IT process automation company UC4 Software, with IT departments striving to stay agile while still developing and releasing stable code.

Although developers are building applications at an ever-increasing rate, time and cost pressures mean they are no longer able to test each application in every conceivable environment. This means that when an application goes into production it often breaks, causing headaches for the help desk and operations teams.

UC4's Randy Clark describes DevOps as a “multi-function SWAT team”, with one foot in the development world and one in the operations world. By forcing the two departments to work together and implementing better planning, control and automation, the problems can be vastly reduced, said Clark.
Science

Submission + - Graphene Tooth Tattoo Monitors Oral Health (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: A graphene sensor effectively tattooed onto a tooth can be used to detect bacteria and so wirelessly monitor oral health, research has shown. Graphene printed onto water-soluble silk can be "bio-transferred" onto organic materials such as tooth enamel. By incorporating antimicrobial peptides and a resonant coil, individual bacteria cells can be detected without need of an onboard power supply or wired connections.
Cloud

Submission + - Cloud security... London Police moving 60% of IT systems to the cloud (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: Talk about cloud security, The Metropolitan Police is exploring the possibility of moving at least 60% of its IT systems to the cloud.

Stressing that the police force is only at the early "pre-approved business case" stage of its cloud plans, Roger Saint, head of strategic cloud in the Metropolitan Police Service's Directorate of Information, said: "We are looking to replace our existing systems with a series of services in the cloud."

"I've been looking at [moving] 60 percent of our systems," Saint told The 451 Research Group's HCTS conference in London yesterday...
Java

Submission + - Azul CTO: Java is not the new Cobol (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86
sweetpea86 writes: Java is the most successful development platform of all time, and is currently used by more than 17 percent of developers. However there is concern within the developer community that the Java platform is ageing, with some suggesting that Java could become the next Cobol.

According to Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems, however, this is not the case. While he admits that the Java Community Process (JCP) has been stagnant in standardisation over the last five years, activity has picked up in recent month, and work is being done to standardise not just the current version of Java, but also future iterations of the platform.

Tene also believes that Oracle is doing the right thing with Java, and claims it has helped to make the JPC much more active than it was before. It has also invited companies like Azul to join the JCP actively, to help guide the rules of licensing and engagement, and is looking to share power with stakeholders such as IBM.

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