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The One Thing Computers Will Never Be Able to Do

October 19, 2014October 19, 2014 enews

The most creative innovations of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences. They believed that beauty mattered. “I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,” Steve Jobs told me when I embarked on his biography. “Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.” The…

Microsoft’s ‘Skype Qik’ Takes On Mobile Video Messaging

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 enews

Skype launches a free mobile messaging app for users to send and receive short videos. Microsoft’s Skype joined the hot mobile messaging market Tuesday with the launch of a simple and straightforward video messaging app called Skype Qik. The app is available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone and doesn’t require a Skype account to use. Skype Qik was born out of the mobile video streaming website Qik, which Skype acquired in 2011 for $150 million and shuttered in April. The stripped-down and reimagined service combines a hodgepodge of characteristics from other…

Infected ATMs give away millions of dollars without credit cards around the globe

October 15, 2014October 15, 2014 enews

Kaspersky Lab’s experts performed a forensic investigation into cyber-criminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, the company’s researchers discovered a piece of malware infecting ATMs that allowed attackers to empty the cash machines via direct manipulation, stealing millions of dollars. INTERPOL alerted the affected member countries and is assisting ongoing investigations. They work at night – only on Sundays and Mondays. Without inserting a credit card into the ATM slot, they enter a combination of digits on the ATM’s keyboard, make a call…

What Is a Single-Instance ERP Strategy?

October 15, 2014October 15, 2014 enews

How much money could a company save if all of its systems worked from a single, consistent system that operated the front end of the business—for example, if enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, customer relationship management, and all of the other systems that a business needs all came from one place? How much better would it be if all of the elements of that one system could draw from a single source of data, across the organization, no matter how diverse the system or how geographically spread out company might be? That’s the…

Getting the Most out of Mobile ERP for Growth Management

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 enews

Business management tools such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) software were created to assist businesses in expanding their operations. ERP has helped various businesses increase their revenue flow by increasing production, improving flexibility and continuity, and increasing their visibility among their current market share. Mobile ERP helps businesses expand beyond their local and regional areas to nationwide and global operations through wireless connections. Mobile ERP makes a huge impact on warehouse productivity beyond a standard ERP system, improving billing, time management, tracking updates, and more to produce higher profits and minimize waste.…

Google rejects 58% of ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 enews

Turns out it’s not so easy to be “forgotten” on Google after all. Google (GOOGL, Tech30) released data Friday on the link-removal requests it’s received in Europe following a ruling on the so-called “right to be forgotten.” The European Court of Justice ruled in May that people worried about their privacy can ask Google and other search engines to remove sensitive links from their search results. But search engines can decline the requests if they believe the links in question are in the public interest. Google said Friday that it…

New Alliance: Lenovo-VMware

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 enews

Lenovo Announces a New Alliance with VMware to Deliver Purpose-Built Software-Defined Data Center Solutions. BARCELONA,– October 14, 2014: Lenovo, the world’s third largest x86 server business since its acquisition of IBM’s System x server business, today announced plans for broad collaboration and partnership with VMware to help clients fully realize the benefits of a software-defined data center by delivering compelling new IT infrastructure solutions for private and hybrid cloud, end user computing, and virtualization. This alliance extends the 16 year development relationship between System x and VMware which has produced a…

Samsung reveals five-times faster Wi-Fi

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 enews

Samsung has revealed new technology making Wi-Fi speeds five-times faster for devices than the current norm. Samsung Electronics has developed new Wi-Fi technology that allows devices to transfer data up to five-times faster than the current maximum. The company revealed the new technology in a statement over the weekend, which stated that the 60 GHz Wi-Fi will allow faster high-definition video streaming than ever before. This translates to up to 4.6Gbps and 575 MB of data per second. Kim Chang Tong, Head of DMC R&D Centre of Samsung Electronics, said:…

A dedicated network for the Internet of things

October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 enews

Technology supporting smart devices comes from French startup Sigfox Photo credits: Matthias Pastwa/Flickr The challenges of connecting all devices Sigfox patent reduce maintenance costs for the internet of things According to Cisco, 25 billion devices will be connected to the internet by the end of the next year. As this wasn’t already an impressive figure, the company adds that the number of interconnected gadgets will double already by 2020. But being able to receive and send data from our watches, smartphones, TVs, refrigerators, alarm systems and cars is harder than it seems at first sight.…

Why TCP/IP is on the way out

October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 enews

The now-aging TCP/IP protocol might not be around for much longer. That’s if a bunch of researchers promoting network coding have their way. If there’s one protocol that networkers are saturated with on a daily, if not minute-by-minute basis, it’s TCP/IP. Well guess what? The now-aging TCP/IP might not be around for much longer. Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it Researchers at Aalborg University in Denmark, in association with MIT and Caltech, reckon that the Internet can be made faster, and more…