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• Samsung commercialises 60GHz Wi-Fi
• Apple destroyed Santa’s home
• Sandworm team uses Microsoft bug
• Chip price war unlikely
• Governments and businesses harvest voices
• Councils snoop on employees, residents

Samsung commercialises 60GHz Wi-Fi Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:22 AM PDT Samsung is developing 60GHz Wi-Fi technology that it says can manage  data transmission speeds of up to 4.6Gbps, or 575MB per second. This is a five-fold increase from 866Mbps, or 108MB per second which is the maximum speed possible with existing consumer electronics devices. more»

Apple destroyed Santa’s home Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:21 AM PDT The fruity cargo cult Apple should be declared public enemy number one in Finland for the damage it caused to the nation's economy. The country’s Prime Minister Alexander Stubb said that Apple’s products have affected its mobile device and paper industries to such a level that it caused an economic downturn. more»

Sandworm team uses Microsoft bug Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:19 AM PDT For the last five years, Russian hackers have conducted a single operation to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors. Cyber intelligence firm iSight said it did not know what data had been found by the hackers, though it suspected they were seeking information on the Ukraine crisis, as well as diplomatic, energy and telecom issues. more»

Chip price war unlikely Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:19 AM PDT Samsung does not expect a price war to break out in the semiconductor industry next year even though it is ramping up capacity. CEO Kwon Oh-hyun said that he will have to "wait and see how things will go next year, but there definitely will not be any game of chicken”, Memory chip makers have reported strong profits this year thanks to better-than-expected demand for PCs and servers.  more»

Governments and businesses harvest voices Posted: 14 Oct 2014 01:18 AM PDT Businesses and governments around the world increasingly are harvesting voiceprints for future biometric based security systems. Mike Goldgof, an executive at Madrid-based AGNITiO said companies like his have helped enter more than 65 million voiceprints into corporate and government databases. The system is starting to be used. more»

Councils snoop on employees, residents Posted: 13 Oct 2014 04:40 PM PDT Hard evidence shows that UK councils behave far worse than Google and employ cameras to check whether their own employees and residents follow the made up rules council officials operate. It has emerged CCTV cameras follow every movement of the binmen as they pick up wheelie bins, and binmen are called to task if they get a tiny iota wrong. more»

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