Travelers in and out of Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport are getting a helping hand to their destinations, thanks to a new backend system installed by CDW Government (CDW-G).
The government division of the product and service provider said Monday that it has equipped Vegas' main airport with a ClearCube blade computing system that speeds up how departure and arrival information is displayed in the airport's terminals.
The quivering images and militant writings are frightening: an exploding Humvee blankets passing cars with dust; a lab technician makes explosives, step by step; hatred oozes from "A guide to kill Americans in Saudi Arabia."
Tens of thousands of Web pages are now devoted to terrorist propaganda designed to attract followers. On the surface, the messages and videos reveal little about their creators. But programmers and writers leave digital clues: the greetings and other words they choose, their punctuation and syntax, and the way they code multimedia attachments and Web links.
Diebold released its new Advanced Skimming Detection technology for automated teller machines. This fraud-deterrence technology engineered into Diebold's Opteva ATMs is the most effective method to guard against card skimming, the act of retrieving consumers' account information from their ATM card magnetic strips via a fraudulent device illegally attached to an ATM. According to Celent research analyst Red Gillen, total skimming losses account for about $1.2 billion a year worldwide.
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to take server virtualization technology into war -- literally -- as part of an effort to improve its IT deployments on the battlefield.
"The Marine Corps has always packed stuff up and taken it to the field – that is not new," said Major Carl Brodhun, the USMC's project officer for enterprise virtualization. "The ability to cram 35 applications into five or six physical hosts is relatively new."
An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster.
University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections.
Most ADSL services around the world are effectively limited to speeds between 1 to 20Mbps, but if Dr Papandriopoulos's technology is successfully commercialised that speed ceiling would be closer to 100Mbps.
All stolen or missing handphones will be deactivated and can no longer be used even with new SIM cards by December.
This is when the mobile phone service operators introduce a new service to curb mobile phone theft, which has escalated to an alarming level. Last year alone, statistics showed that some 100,000 handphones were reported lost but the authorities said the real figure could be much higher.
New developments in chip technology should allow a mini-computer that fits in your pocket to be available as soon as next year, letting you surf the Web, search for friends or record and upload video.
Speaking at the Intel Development Forum in Taiwan, Intel vice-president and Ultra Mobility Group assistant general manager, Gadi Singer, demonstrated a range of mobile Internet devices (MID) and ultra mobile personal computers (UMPC), which he believes will provide the full Internet experience in your hand.
From clothes riddled with sensors to name tags that detect our moods, computing's next wave could unleash small devices that increasingly augment everyday activities with digital intelligence.
That was the predominant vision at a conference on "wearable computing" held recently in Boston, where researchers showed off prototypes and discussed ideas.
Some attendees took wearable computing to its extreme, donning cyborg-like miniaturized displays attached to eyepieces. But most of what was on exhibit seemed much closer to jumping into a mainstream commercial product.
BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.
Two telecom veterans on Thursday unveiled a plug-and-play USB phone jack called MagicJack, which turns a PC into a communications hub.
The MagicJack is a device the size of a matchbox that acts as a phone jack for the PC and lets consumers or small businesses plug in their existing phones to make cheap local and long-distance calls.
