42 million US TV homes connected to internet

During the first quarter of 2014 there were 42 million US households with a TV connected to the internet, either via a video game console, Blu-ray disc player, streaming media player or the TV itself. According to the NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Report, between Q1 2013 and Q1 2014 the number of homes with a TV connected to the internet grew by six million. The vast majority of this increase was driven by growth in the number of homes with Connected TVs and streaming media players. For the first time,…

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Cloud computing aka ‘The future is trying to KILL YOU’

The brutal tech truth that links the problems of Rackspace, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, SAP, others Analysis What do all ailing enterprise IT companies have in common? Trouble in their core businesses due to the rise of cloud computing. The repercussions that the technology is having on the IT business are all around us, and its effects on the industry are as inevitable as gravity on a dropped bowling ball. Cloud computing’s rise spells trouble for any traditional Western IT company you care to name, and has already started to bite…

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How the rich protect their online identity

You can’t always control what’s said about you on the Internet. But with enough money, you can influence what comes up in a search. “We can remove something that shouldn’t be there,” said Chris Dinota, the CEO and founder of Solvera Group. The cost for that service? Between $50,000 and $300,000, depending on the project, plus a monthly maintenance cost. While many less expensive services work to move negative content down and positive content up, Solvera will try to remove the negative links altogether and manage the search results. Dinota’s…

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Google gets over 1,000 requests to takedown links

ECJ ruling sees demand from paedophiles, stalkers and attempted murderers to remove links about them Google has received over 1,000 requests by people asking to have links to information about them removed. The influx of demand comes after a European Court of Justice ruling on Tuesday. According to reports from Sky News, the search company has had demands to take down information from “a man who tried to kill his family” to a convicted cyber stalker requesting a story about him to be removed. Also asking to be forgotten have been…

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Government opens accounts for assistance to flood victims

Belgrade, 16 May 2014 – The Serbian government has opened dinar and foreign currency accounts at which those who want to help victims of floods can deposit money. Foto: Tanjug The assistance to those in need can be paid to the dinar account 840-3546721-89, purpose of payment: removal of consequences of the emergency situation – floods. The number of the foreign currency account at which the assistance for the removal of consequences of the emergency situation can be deposited is 01-504619-100193230-000000-0000. Payment instructions from outside of Serbia are available here. Source:…

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5 Ways to Secure Your Web Browser

Which is the most secure Web browser? Google Chrome? Mozilla Firefox? Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? It’s a simple question—but the answer is a bit complicated. In a Fall 2013 poll, security-conscious browser users overwhelmingly voted Firefox as the most secure. But during the annual Pwn2own hacking contest in March 2014, Firefox was exploited four times with zero-day attacks, making it one of the least secure browsers. To complicate matters further, a 2013 comparative analysis of five popular Web browsers by NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer outperformed its competitors. Even so, the NSS Labs research…

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IDC Lowers IT Spending Forecasts Due to Emerging Markets and Mobile Device Slowdown

According to the just released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book (Document # 248617), worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%.  According to the new report, IT spending has been volatile since the beginning of the year, with macroeconomic wild cards including the crisis in Ukraine and the slowdown in China adding to the general sense of uncertainty which continues to impact business confidence and investment. Pent-up demand should, however, drive…

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Will Elon Musk fund a Nikola Tesla museum?

Inventor Nikola Tesla may have died alone and broke, but he has powerful friends who want to preserve his legacy. Cartoonist Matthew Inman, the brain behind “The Oatmeal,” is one. Using his popular web comic, Inman launched an effort to turn Tesla’s former laboratory in Shoreham, New York, into a museum. Tesla, who lived from 1856 to 1943, developed the basis for AC power, among other ideas and innovations that have shaped our lives. He obtained more than 100 patents, according to the Tesla Memorial Society of New York. Inman…

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SPA publishes position on Tokenization and Protection of Card Data for Online Payments

Tokenization in payments has been around for years. However, in recent months tokenization has once again become a buzzword within the financial industry which is looking to add tokens to the list of alternative payment methods using card data (cloud-based accounts, mobile wallets, Google HCE). The SPA considers that what’s different this time round is the standardization efforts taking place for online payments using tokens (for example, EMVCo, US Clearing House and new ANSI X.9 standard, PCI-DSS) and the fact that these efforts are being aligned with upcoming legal frameworks…

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Anti-DDoS servers used to launch DDoS attack

The attack threw around 25 million packets of data at the victim’s server per second Infrastructure designed to protect organisations against DDoS attacks has been subverted and used carry out out the attacks it was trying to stop on an unnamed online gaming company. The attack was launched from servers based in Canada and China. the servers themselves were part of an anti-DDoS protection system. The attack, discovered by IT security company Incapsula, was mounted on an online gaming company. At its peak, the attack threw around 25 million packets…

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