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Can this startup kill off the supermarket?

August 10, 2014August 10, 2014 enews

Farmigo, a small farm-delivered food service, has an audacious dream: It thinks it can help wipe out the likes of Kroger and Albertsons. Benzi Ronen thinks that the supermarkets’ time is up. And his company is just the thing to speed up its demise. “Our goal is to make the supermarket obsolete from a fresh perspective,” Ronen says. Farmigo, his five-year-old 30-employee startup, sells produce and other products like milk and cheese purchased directly from farmers for 10%-20% less than equivalent grocery store items. He does it by shrinking the…

The 0-day Vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet still threatens users, Kaspersky Lab study finds

August 10, 2014August 10, 2014 enews

Kaspersky Lab presented its “Windows usage and vulnerabilities” research conducted in the summer of 2014. According to it the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability was discovered back in 2010 at the same time as the notorious Stuxnet worm. Even today malware program exploiting this vulnerability remains widespread and poses a threat to users: 19,000,000 users encountered it in an eight-month timeframe from November 2013 to June 2014. CVE-2010-2568 is a shortcut handling error in Windows, allowing attackers to load an arbitrary DLL without the user’s knowledge. This vulnerability affects Windows XP, Vista and…

Consumers want to stream content to their TVs

August 10, 2014August 10, 2014 enews

Consumers’desire to stream video content on TV screens will drive content device purchases, Council For Research Excellence studies suggest. The most important determining factor among consumers in purchasing a new TV or video device is the ability for it to connect to the internet and stream content, a just-released study has found. Smart TVs were selected by the majority of households participating in the qualitative study, an acceleration ethnography designed to help determine consumers’ likely future video-device purchases, conducted for the Council for Research Excellence (CRE) by GfK. The acceleration…

Who’s Watching Your ERP Solution?

August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 enews

Storing enterprise resource management (ERP) data in the cloud can raise some serious questions about security. Decision makers have to look at each vendor to see how it protects data from the myriad of threats that try to access confidential information. They ask questions about what type of firewalls and intrusion prevention or detection technologies are used, they make inquiries regarding testing for common vulnerabilities, and they might even discuss the security of the physical location. But it is also important to talk about who, from the cloud vendor’s side,…

‘POWER from AIR’ backscatter tech now juices up Internet of Stuff Wi-Fi gizmos

August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 enews

Researchers who last year demonstrated they could harvest stray RF signals to power RFID tags have scaled-up their technology to power Wi-Fi devices. The University of Washington team is pitching their ultra low-power “backscatter harvesting” technology with the inevitable Internet of Things (IoT) tag, since if it could be commercialised the technology would help remove the battery from the battalions of sensors that IoT advocates imagine will one day rule our world. In previous research, the group got RFID tags to represent binary 1 and 0 states by either absorbing…

How Technology is Shaping the Next Wave of Journalism

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 enews

Glass, sensors, and drones are changing the way people tell stories. Advances in technology mean advances in all forms of communication, which mean changes in journalism. With a plethora of gadgets and high-end technology hitting the market so rapidly, it’s more important than ever for journalism curricula in higher education to evolve with the times. In a recent post published on Nieman Journalism Lab, Texas State University Associate Journalism Professor Cindy Royal wrote: If you are a journalism educator or media professional, I have news for you: We work in tech.…

EMC Joins Puppet Supported

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 enews

Disclaimer: EMC is a proud member of the Puppet Supported Program. These are my thoughts and not necessarily those of my employer. I work at EMC which is a federation of well-known brand names; VMware, RSA, Pivotal & EMC II, and they all have the same goal: the Software-Defined Data Center. It’s become a real buzzword these last two years where anyone who’s anyone within the IT industry is embracing the SDDC; all our competitors and partners, and our joint customers, and I’d like to explain my take on it.…

Gartner Says Service Providers Hold the Key to Their Success in the Digital Era

August 5, 2014August 6, 2014 enews

Digital Business Incompetence Will Cause 25 Percent of Businesses to Lose Market Position As enterprises move to become digital businesses, opportunities are arising for service providers to play a crucial role in the digital era, according to Gartner, Inc. Service providers should begin to align and adapt their organizational structure, capabilities, offerings, and engagement and delivery models to thrive in this new digital environment. “All signs suggest that organizations have just begun to tap into the potential of digital business; however, organizations that don’t accelerate their digital business transformation will…

SCARY! New Website Reveals Google Forgotten Search Results

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014 enews

Not all that long ago it was announced that Google was to comply with the right for people to “be forgotten” within search results. As soon as the form was released, Google was flooded by an overwhelming response and thousands of people had some or other page or result that they wanted removed. It should also be noticed that other search engines are following in Google’s footsteps by designing a similar method to “be forgotten”. However, a new website has already surfaced in an effort to reveal these hidden results!…

Best Windows Phone apps for 2014

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014 enews

We round up the best and most popular Windows Phone apps to help you decide what’s hot and what’s not for 2014 While not quite matching Android or iPhone when it comes to dominating the mobile market, Windows Phone has a loyal following, and is certainly popular within the business community. Of late, Microsoft has made the OS much more business-focused than it used to be, helping it wrest market share from one-time rival BlackBerry, and it has also been designed to work with Windows-based IT infrastructures. 1. iTelMobileDialer URL: http://www.revesoft.com/…