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Google Brings Free Public Wi-Fi to New York City
Google has announced a further expansion of its plans to connect the world, with the launch of free public Wi-Fi services in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York that will become the city’s largest unified network. The project, which Google is carrying out with local non-profit organization Chelsea Improvement Group, will bring free Wi-Fi access ...
Intel Outlines Strategy at CES: More Mobile, Higher Performance, Less Power
Intel was all over the place at CES yesterday, despite the fact that it didn’t have much by the way of ‘new’ news to offer us. However, what the company did provide was a comprehensive look at its products, initiatives, and most importantly, its strategy for the year ahead. Much has been made of the ...
Qualcomm CEO: New Snapdragons Will “Crush” The Competition
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs took to the stage at CES yesterday for his keynote in order to discuss the company’s two new processor core architectures, the Krait 300 and Krait 400. The chipmaker unveiled its newest products yesterday, announcing that Krait 300 will be used on Snapdragon 600. According to Jacobs, Krait 300 represents the ...
Toshiba’s Self-Encrypting Drives Give Enterprise Users Peace of Mind
Toshiba has announced a line of high-security drives for enterprise that will help businesses to better manage sensitive information in cloud computing, data centers and client computing applications. The Japanese firm unveiled four new SATA and SAS drives packing the enhanced security features at CES on Sunday evening. The drives boast embedded self-encrypting and cryptographic-erase ...
CES 2013 Innovations: Smart Forks, Android-Powered Ovens and Throwaway Tech
The first few hours of CES 2013 have dazzled us with a deluge of delicious devices so far, with dozens of new Android tablets weird and wonderful Smart TVs stealing the show so far. But while the big guns have given us plenty of tech to chew over so far, a number of smaller companies ...
Verizon & Delphi Team Up With Car Connect Remote Tracking & Controls
Delphi and Verizon have teamed up to offer a new Car Connect device that delivers a host of control and information options to car owners, allowing them to control, monitor and track their vehicles by remote. Packed into a small, black box about the size of a pack of playing cards, Car Connect seems to ...
Lenovo Storms The Show With 8 New Devices at CES 2013
Apparently whoever said that interest in the CES was on the wane forgot to inform Lenovo – the Chinese manufacturer has just unleashed a deluge of new hardware to demonstrate that the world’s largest consumer electronics show has lost none of its excitement, no matter what the detractors might say. The likes of HP, Microsoft ...
Hackers Exploit Security Lapse to Impersonate Google+
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all rushed to update their web browsers after it emerged that cyberthieves were exploiting a security loophole that allowed them to impersonate the Google+ social network.
French ISP Free Says “Au Revoir” To Online Ads
There’s a bit of a storm brewing in France this morning after it was revealed that one of the country’s leading ISPs quietly released a firmware update this week, throwing in an ad-blocking option and apparently switching it “on” by default. Rude Baguette says that “Free” pushed out the update on Wednesday morning but it’s ...
Fake Big Data: Deceiving Hackers With Tons of Crap
We’ve seen some interesting ideas to thwart cybercrime in our time – for example Kaspersky’s supposedly ‘unhackable’ operating system comes to mind – and most of them inevitably involve the use of super-complex algorithms, ciphers and other encryption methods. So given this technological trend, it’s a bit of a surprise to learn that a number ...