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Cloud sync: email, calendar, contacts & more
TriSys Recruitment Software, started in Cambridge in 1994 is one of the most eagerly willing to sell you anything in Business Softwarewhich has released its latest version of email, calendar, contacts synchronisation tool connecting to cloud-based email services. If you visit the site, an energetic popup window suggests you can fill in your name to text and communicate NOW!
Livewires for IP Digital Sparks
The Digital Spark conference, held this week September 1-2 has never been lacking an audience, since Abertay University raised the wow! factor of its speakers, but a late reminder points out what you will miss by not attending and offers a registration point.
List-it, lost-it, ghost-it
Gaberlunzie is in one seriously horrible pickle and could be skinned by his editor for having downloaded some wonderfully interesting experimental software two years back called List-it, played with it quite a bit as it sat on the Mozilla browser, then in one or other Mozilla update, lost it. Only to discover now that he is severely ghost-it by the pop-up window!
Intel locks down on software
Intel has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 bn in cash, as the chip giant seeks to expand its presence in security services. Which should see Microsoft, AVG, Kasperski, Zone Labs, Norton, F-Secure et al looking to polish up their own niche acts.
Large = vulnerable = security compliance
A recent survey on information security breaches reported that 68% of large respondents had been asked by their customers to demonstrate their compliance with security standards. Some 92% of large respondents had a security incident in the last year, with the average cost of a large respondent’s worst incident being £280k - £690k.
BAE Systems HEADS up in health sensors
A recent $17m award from the US Army for BAE Systems’ Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems (HEADS) Generation II sensor, designed to better monitor soldiers and assist in the identification and diagnosis of combat-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) was followed by a public first look at the Gen II HEADS device at Farnborough International Airshow, while BAE Systesm also showed off its Ultra Lightweight Warrior (ULW) equipment Deliveries on the HEADS order are expected to begin in April 2011, and completed by July 2011.
Satellite funding: location, location
The 3rd call for proposals for Satellite Navigation research and development (R&D) under the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7) makes available €38m in funding and is open to companies and research organisations in various areas such as ICT, Transport, Mobility, SME, Security, Electronics and Aerospace. Closer to home and high technology, ADS Scotland is organising a Workshop at Strathclyde University in September.
Safety critical software: Chinook Mk 2
Lord Philip, who retired from the Scottish bench in 2007, will lead the Independent Review of evidence into the crash of an RAF Chinook Mk II on the Mull of Kintyre on 2nd June 1994, with the loss of all 29 on board. That review has more at stake than attributing the crash blame accurately, important as that is. It will also help focus attention on safety critical software at a time when the Centre for Automotive Embedded Security Systems reports its 'wake up call.'
Software monitors ship lubrication
Researchers at the University of Sunderland Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) have developed a software programme for a sensor based processing unit - the Progressive Oil Sensor System for Extended IDentification ONline ( Posseidon) system - that can continuously monitor a ship's lubrication system, allowing crews to predict any deterioration or contamination in the oil, anticipating tribology problems and taking action before damage or failure.
Overhauling building and estate data bases
The National House Building Council in the UK is to use Trillium Software System to manage its multiple databases containing millions of records of registered homeowners, house builders and housing plots. Its news breaks just as The National Audit Office declared that one of the UK largest landowners , the Ministry of Defence , lacks a proper database on its estate and is struggling to cut costs as a result.
Some positive growth in security appliances
IDC's Western European Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, 1Q10 revenues for the Western European security appliance market reached $399.5m in factory revenue, a 0.8% increase over the same quarter a year ago. Shipments increased 1.3% over last year's 1Q with 133,913 units shipped.
Armadillo security approach & cyber climate change
The improvement of security and safety on the internet is of paramount importance but if climate scientists are correct then this is perhaps a more urgent task than might otherwise be apparent argues Australian Louis Leahy who sees security as the biggest stumbling block in remote working. His approach may be an extreme in simplification, but the arrival of his armadillo approach is intriguing. Leah, who invented the Variable Proprietary Character Set Multi-layered (VPCSML ) authentication technology and is director of the technology vendor Australian based Armorlog International Ltd, will talk at the July 12-15 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing at Las Vegas, Nevada.
The US markets circuit breaker at work
The experimental circuit breaker for stock markets that was put in place after last month’s so-called 'flash crash' kicked in for the second time after an erroneous trade caused a sudden plunge in the price of Citigroup shares.
Profoundly unbalanced data requests
The EU Commission has announced that the adoption of a draft agreement on transferring EU banking data to the US as part of counter terrorism measures has been agreed. But a UK privacy law experts say the plan gives US authorities freedom to make sweeping non-reciprocal demands for data.
EU forecast critical raw mineral shortages
The European Union is facing shortages of 14 “critical” raw materials needed for current emerging technologies such as such as mobile phones, thin layer photovoltaics, Lithium-ion batteries, fibre optic cable, synthetic fuels and wireless networks among others, notes a recently released European Commission study.
Data Centre auditing
As Scotland's data centre sector continues to grow, could be time to take a look at other takes on the subject of data centres. This month a Dublin exhibition and conference organised by Florida based professional association BICSI will be the launching ground for a new data centre design and implementation: best practices standard. It is believed to join around 40 different standards already in circulation.
Watch the phone morph again
As HP fans know, the Hewlett-Packard HP-01 LED calculator watch complete with its tiny pen stylus was really a marvelous device in 1977 when HP first had them on show with customers and staff. Now HP is to cap the trick by developing a solar powered wristwatch for the military, capable of showing maps and other strategic information and doubtless including a calculator.
Model for automating software compliance
Automated applications for scanning software to determine its composition, the pedigree of its components, and the status of compliance to licensing and copyright obligations are key elements of effective software IP management, urge Mahshad Koohgoli, CEO of Ottowa-based Protecode Inc and executive consultant, Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu. The present the following cost model for assuring software legal compliance – using automated tools correctively and preventively, and are in the news as having been named Cool Vendor for 2010 by Gartner.
Stable Isotope Analysis & new Digital Forensics degree
Dr Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, one of the new BBC 2 History Cold Case series stars, is also the author of the a mainstream book on the forensic tool being used in applications ranging from food analysis to human identification and counter-terrorism. Suitably, the book and the lBBC programme coincide with the launch of a new BSc (Hons) degree in Digital Forensics at Abertay that will teach students how to unravel complex evidence held by mobile phones, computers and databases – including messages users were confident were deleted.
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