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Motorola's first enterprise tablet (ET1) gives sales, marketing, servicing, warehousing and delivery personnel a ruggedized alternative to consumer-grade tablets.

However, data breaches aren't the only way criminals get SSNs. A network of cyber-criminals has figured out how the Social Security Administration generates its numbers and is using that to come up with valid Social Security numbers around the time that a child is born. Because the first three digits of a Social Security number reference the region where the number is issued, it's only the last six numbers that are really tied to identity, and those are issued in a predictable sequence.

Organized cyber-criminals have taken what used to be a minor domestic crime and turned it into a global ID trafficking ring. In these cases, the data that's so valuable are the Social Security numbers of young children because they can easily be matched with any name and date of birth and used to create fraudulent identities, obtain credit or even dodge residency rules for getting work in the United States.

Corporate servers often consist of scores of processors and connections.

NPP inside a clean room at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

SAFEPED could help researchers identify causes of fatal accidents and prevent future crashes before they occur.

FEARING LOSS OF CONTROL

One of the challenges many companies considering SaaS face is a loss of control. Jeff Muscarella, executive vice president with spend-management consultancy NPI Financial, says this manifests itself initially during contract talks. The way to avoid being disappointed, he says, is to be very specific about your company’s needs.

Sometime last year, it became clear that ClearChoice had a problem. The company’s chain of dental-implant centers was at 29 and counting, testing the elasticity of its disparate IT systems. Each location had its own database fed by site-specific instances of applications—most notably Great Plains ERP software—making it difficult to get any visibility into whether the company was operating at peak efficiency.

Proteins are incredibly complex, yet tiny — so tiny that conventional imaging techniques often can't capture them.