Security should be the first consideration for any IT department about to implement voice over IP on a local-area network, an executive with an equipment manufacturer says.
"When you're talking to your provider, ask them 'How am I going to protect myself from someone hacking in and listening to senior executives talking on the phone?'" said Steven Fair, executive vice-president with Phybridge Inc., based near Toronto, Canada.
Accessibility is a problem for the iPhone. With the device's lack of physical controls, it's virtually impossible for somebody who is vision-impaired to use the phone. Other touchscreen smart phones suffer from the same problem, so a few smartypants engineers at Google have come up with a clever way of dealing with the problem.
For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery, according to a study released on Thursday in the online edition of journal Science.
The new virus-produced batteries have the same energy capacity and power performance as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being considered to power plug-in hybrid cars, and they could also be used to power a range of personal electronic devices, said Angela Belcher, the MIT materials scientist who led the research team.
Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market -- even though they haven't been updated in eons. Or their names get slapped on new products that are available only outside the U.S. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they're obsolete -- long after the rest of the world has moved on.
Pretty soon, your bags may get scanned, just like your brain does.
Now, when you check your bag in at the airport, it gets zapped by X-rays in a CT (computerized tomography) scan, a relatively crude device. It takes an average of seven 2-D pictures, or "slices," of the bag, and from those images, the systems make guesses about what's inside.
French media behemoth Thomson has announced mp3HD, a new lossless 'hybrid' MP3 format, which not only offers the sound detail lost in a normal MP3, but remains compatible with your existing MP3 player or iPod.
It's called mp3HD and still uses the traditional .mp3 file extension. Simply put, it works by storing a conventional lossy MP3 track that standard players can play, alongside a 'lossless' version -- both audio streams are contained in one single MP3 file. It's similar to how hybrid SACDs work.
MIT researchers claim that an experimental material called graphene may be able to boost the clock speed of computer chips into the 500-GHz to 1,000-GHz range.
According to a report issued by the MIT news office last week, the research findings will be discussed in a paper in the May issue of Electron Device Letters. They also were described last week at the American Physical Society meeting by Tomas Palacios, assistant professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
The Internet Archive organization plans next week to announce the opening of a new data center to house two petabytes of information for its Wayback Machine, the digital time capsule that stores archived versions of Web pages dating back to 1996.
For example, this is what Computerworld's Web site looked like in 1997, what Google looked like in 1998 and what CNN looked like in 2000.
The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) has deployed NetApp’s FAS3140 storage solution to support the rollout of its Centre for Innovation (CFI) initiative.
The advanced unified storage system, combined with management software tools, provides a best-of-breed storage and virtualisation platform that allows OUHK to implement new intelligent learning programmes.
Since its first inception in 1989, OUHK has been offering high quality and flexible tertiary education to more than 150,000 people.
What’s the future? Is it Minority Report? Is it The Matrix? Depending on which futurist you talk to, it could be one or the other (or both).
The panel I attended early Friday afternoon showed compelling evidence that we’re living in a world of Minority Report meets Cyberpunk – if the realities of those fictional worlds aren’t here yet, they will be in a matter of moments. Why, then, are we still amazed by the things we see in HP commercials and Microsoft concept demos?
