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Submission + - Spectrum segment for medical devices opened by FCC (patexia.com)

Submitted by

sarfralogy

on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:21PM

sarfralogy writes: "The average doctor’s phone and computer are likely both wireless — and soon many of his or her patients can be as well.
The FCC announced on May 24 that it’s assigning 40 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum for wireless medical tracking devices, called medical body area devices, or MBANs. This will be on a shared basis with, would you believe test pilots in the defense and aerospace sectors? It’s true. The announcement caps several years of negotiations between the FCC; two major manufacturers of medical monitors, General Electric and Phillips; and the flight industry’s Aerospace and Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council."

Submission + - Microsoft going to release Microsoft Office for IOS and Android devices (dailytechspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is planning to release MS Office Mobile Suite very soon. Rumor has it that Microsoft is going to release Microsoft Office Suite for IPad and Android devices. This is great as it gives a much wider audience compared to just on the IPad.

Submission + - UN Takeover of Internet Must be Stopped, US Warns (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by

benfrog

on Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:07PM

benfrog writes: "In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are adopted. Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, the summit would consider proposals including "[using] international mandates to charge certain Web destinations on a 'per-click' basis to fund the build-out of broadband infrastructure across the globe" and allowing ""governments to monitor and restrict content or impose economic costs upon international data flows." Concerns regarding the possible proposals were both aired at a congressional hearing this morning and drafted in a congressional resolution (pdf)."

Comment Correlation and Causality (Score 3, Insightful) 278

by RalphWigum on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @05:04PM (#40080555) Attached to: Depressed People Surf the Web Differently

Yay! Another correlation != causality study. Everyone jump to conclusions in 5...4...3...2...1

Submission + - Microsoft Research Releases Cliplets Software for making "Harry Potter" photos (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08, 2012 @02:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Have you every wanted to create your own "Harry Potter" photos?, well one of Micrsosoft Research's latest projects called Cliplets, unveiled at Microsoft’s own TechFest 2012, is a free piece of software that video enthusiasts–consumer and professional–may enjoy.

Cliplets is video manipulation software and explores the space between still and video media. The software allows the user to take a moment in time from a home video, and focus on looping the action of one object, while all other actions surrounding that object remain frozen in time. For instance, say you took a video of a waterfall, but the camera is shaking and some hikers walked into your shot toward the end. You can isolate the waterfall as one object and make it loop, allowing you to create a dynamic photo; the waterfall still falling, but everything else standing still. Imagery like this (similar to cinemagraphs) typically take some difficult Photoshop editing to pull off, which makes Microsoft's new Cliplets software a cool point of entry for amateur photographers.

Submission + - Facebook Brand Timelines? Meh. (gabardine.com)

Submitted by Hieronymus.N on Friday March 02, 2012 @05:15PM

Hieronymus.N writes: Facebook launched their new Brand Timelines this week, and the tubes lit up with reviews and commentary about the new features. Reviews have been consistently positive and enthusiastic, with everyone from Mashable to Forbes verily gushing about the superiority of this latest advancement over the old way brands were able to use FB—better photos! Better layout! Private messages!

This latest ‘breakthrough’ may be better than what came before, but it’s still incredibly weak in comparison with what’s possible. In short, FB pages for brands, Brand Timelines and all, still suck.

Submission + - Fastest Ultrabook Yet: Dell's XPS 13 (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Friday March 02, 2012 @04:58PM

MojoKid writes: "The ultrabook onslaught continues with offerings from virtually all the major players. Dell's first effort in the new ultralight notebook category is the XPS 13. Built on a low power Intel Core i7-2637M mobile processor, backed with a 256GB 6Gbps mSATA SSD and 4GB of RAM, the XPS 13 is actually one of the fastest ultrabooks out there right now. Its display is nicely setup too, with a 13.3-inch LCD that has edge-to-edge glass. Dell actually managed to squeeze a 13.3-inch panel into what is essentially a 12-inch form factor. Finally, it appears ultrabooks could give the Apple MacBook Air a run for its money."

Submission + - Chrome to be deployed by US State Department (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01, 2012 @06:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: On January 26th, when Secretary Hillary Clinton was asked what could be done about the painfully slow update process for Internet Explorer on the US State Departments' computers. She announced that the Department would be deploying Google Chrome to their offices worldwide.

Submission + - Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by dcraid on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @08:54AM

dcraid writes: Microsoft's cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide.

A customer described the problem to The Register as an "admin nightmare" and said they couldn't understand how such an important system could go down.

"This should never happen," said our source. "The system should be redundant and outages should be confined to some data centres only."

Submission + - TouchPad to run Android thanks to TouchDroid (geek.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: By now, there’s a massive number of brand new owners of the HP TouchPad tablet. Compared to other tablets in the market, it's is still a major competitor when it comes to hardware, and yet it’s only $99 if you can find one. What happens when that “new gadget smell” wears off, and you’re left with a tablet that isn’t likely to get any better than it is right now? Eventually, you’ll be able to put Android on it.

Cell Phone Interception At Def Con 95

Posted by Soulskill on Monday July 26, 2010 @04:50PM from the can-i-hear-you-now dept.

ChrisPaget writes "I'm planning a pretty significant demonstration of GSM insecurity at Defcon next week, where I'll intercept and record cellular calls made by my attendees, live on-stage, no user-input required. As you can imagine, intercepting cellphones is a Very Big Deal in the eyes of the law; this blog post is an attempt to reassure everyone that their privacy is being taken seriously despite the nature of the demo. I'm not just making it up either — the EFF have helped significantly with the details."

Plagiarism Inc. 236

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 01, 2010 @01:09PM from the cheating-is-easy-money dept.

Here's an interesting article on the life and times of 24-year-old Jordan Kavoosi, who has made a business of plagiarism. His Essay Writing Company employs writers from across the country, and will deliver a paper on any subject for $23 per page. In addition, his company will get it done in 48 hours, and he guarantees at least a B grade or your money back. From the article: "'Sure it's unethical, but it's just a business,' Kavoosi explains. 'I mean, what about strip clubs or porn shops? Those are unethical, and city-approved.'"

Submission + - OpenDNS Hijacking Google

Submitted by nerdrew on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @01:49PM

nerdrew writes: My computer's (it's a Mac) default DNS (default, as in the DNS entries are blank in the Network settings) is OpenDNS. A few weeks ago, all of my normal address bar google searches in firefox started being redirected to an OpenDNS search page that looked strangely similar to a google search page. It seems OpenDNS is hijacking the URL below for users of their DNS service. I posted this to a forum, and was chased out by people claiming I shouldn't be using OpenDNS in the first place. As it was set as a default, I didn't have any choice. I had to change it. That's fine for me and I forgot about the problem, until today. I opened by dad's computer to fix something and fired up Safari. Typing "gmail" in the address bar, I expected safari to replace it with gmail.com. Instead, I was taken to an OpenDNS search page. The same thing happened in Firefox. Here is the URL that OpenDNS hijacks. Note, changing the address beyond the domain name takes you to google.com, but unmodified it goes to OpenDNS. http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sou rceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= . http://www.google.com/ still works though. Is this acceptable for OpenDNS to do?

Submission + - Tennessee Newspaper publishes searchable hit list

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @09:06AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Tennessean published a searchable hit list of all legal gun owners in the state. Where does the technological capability to do something cross the ethical lines where it violates one's privacy and safety? Is this any more or less ethical than publishing a list of women who've had abortions or a list of people who have been married multiple times? Just because we can make information easy to access, should we?

Submission + - What is the best open source collaboration tool?

Submitted by Mentalus on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @02:48AM

Mentalus writes: I'm working for a small company which specializes in writing custom software as a consultant service. We really need some tools for project tracking, some kind of wiki and also a calendar server. The problem is, the choices in this area are enormous! Which tools do you prefer? My former employer uses TRAC, but is there a better alternative?

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