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Five Steps to Securing Internet-Enabled Devices

So far the most serious security breaches have been from PCs, but embedded system designers are working to prevent Internet-enabled consumer devices from being used as backdoors for future intrusions.

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Wind River suggests taking a five-prong approach to securing Internet-enabled devices.

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Channel Case Study: The Value of Cold Calls

Sure, being the trusted advisor is important. But first you need to get in the door. Here's a look at how a single cold call turned into a giant wireless networking deal at Dean College.

It was the cold call that turned into a half-a-million dollar business deal.

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Speed Bump on the Way to Exascale Computing

The next stop on the road to exascale computing is systems that perform in the 10-petaFLOPS or greater range. But a planned system to test many of the needed technologies to reach that goal has been put on hold.

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Argonne National Laboratory will use IBM's next-generation Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, a system touting a peak performance of 10 petaFLOPS.

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Quantum Tunneling Enables 3D Touch

Spiked nanoparticles ease quantum tunneling to allow the third-dimension to be sensed by touch-screen users.

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Spiked nanoparticles aid in quantum tunneling to allow Peratech's film to sense a continuum between feather-light and heavy touches, thereby enabling 3D gestures.

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VA spent $717 million on a drug deemed as effective as a placebo

Over the past decade, the Veterans Affairs Department spent $717 million for an anti-psychotic drug to treat post-traumatic stress disorder that a recent study shows is no more effective than a placebo.

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Era of the PC Waning

Personal computers were once considered a bottomless market, but the rise of tablets, smart TVs and other Internet-connected devices has finally established an anchor-point to vault over the PC.

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The PC market will be eclipsed by the Internet-enabled consumer devices by 2013.

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IBM Debuts Brainlike Cognitive Computer

By replicating the neural networks of the brain in silicon chips, IBM aims to create a cognitive computer that can perform tasks that are easy for people but difficult for traditional computers. These tasks range from playing games to making predictions about the weather.

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Principal investigator Dharmendra Modha in front of the brain-wall at IBM Research, where the operation of the neurons and synapses in IBM's cognitive computers are visualized.

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Obama and Chávez: The World’s Most Influential Heads of State on the Net

The Digital Policy Council’s latest research shows a doubling of the number of heads of state joining Twitter in the hope of better engaging their citizenry.

Analyses as of August 2011 reveal that 42%, or two out of five heads of state, have a presence the social media site Twitter. A total of 69 world leaders out of 164 countries have Twitter accounts set up in their personal name or through an official government office. The new figures represent a startling 100% increase in the number of heads of state and national governments employing Twitter from the fourth quarter of 2010 when only 33 countries were active.

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FBI-Related Spam E-Mails

Fraudsters are using a new version of spam e-mails to lure their victims. The threatening e-mails are purportedly from the FBI and its leadership.

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Beware of New E-mail Scam Requesting BBB Rating Verification

Your Better Business Bureau (BBB) is cautioning businesses and consumers about an e-mail that is purporting to come from BBB.

Your Better Business Bureau (BBB) is cautioning businesses and consumers about an e-mail that is purporting to come from BBB. The e-mail appears to come from a phony BBB address (BBBupdate@post.com) in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area and falsely requests verification and validation of BBB Ratings.