Friday, March 27, 2015

Oculus's chief scientist: VR will succeed because your vision sucks

Flaw in common hotel router threatens guests' devices.

Goodbye GPS? DARPA preparing alternative position-tracking technology.

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March 27, 2015

Oculus's chief scientist: VR will succeed because your vision sucks

The fact that our eyes can't even tell what color that dress is? That's great for Oculus. READ MORE

 

Issue highlights

1. Flaw in common hotel router threatens guests' devices

2. Goodbye GPS? DARPA preparing alternative position-tracking technology

3. Google embraces Internet Explorer tech to help improve Chrome's scrolling

4. Facebook's iOS UI development framework goes open source

5. Microsoft wants to make Powerpoint more Web-friendly, buys LiveLoop

6. Now Samsung is rumored to have AMD in its sights

7. Google for Work vs. Microsoft Office 365: A comparison of cloud tools (via CIO.com)

8. Will embedded OS and middleware help save Blackberry?

9. The things end users do that drive security teams crazy (via CSOonline.com)

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Flaw in common hotel router threatens guests' devices

Corporate travelers should be warned that a vulnerable Wi-Fi router commonly used in hotels is easily compromised, putting guests passwords at risk and opening up their computers to malware infections and direct attacks. READ MORE

Goodbye GPS? DARPA preparing alternative position-tracking technology

Finding GPS unreliable in certain situations, the U.S. government is placing a high priority on developing a more reliable real-time position tracking technology whose signals won't disappear in blind spots and can't be jammed. READ MORE

Google embraces Internet Explorer tech to help improve Chrome's scrolling

Google is building a Microsoft technology into Chrome that should help improve browser scrolling. READ MORE

Facebook's iOS UI development framework goes open source

ComponentKit framework, now offered for general use, reduces the complexity of writing code. READ MORE

Microsoft wants to make Powerpoint more Web-friendly, buys LiveLoop

The software giant continues to buy companies to strengthen its Office apps and services. READ MORE

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HP ArcSight ESM Solution Helps Bank to Combat Fraud

Turkey's Finansbank needed a way to spot potential fraud among millions of electronic transactions. But implementing a commercial fraud management application would take 18 months. Based on their experience using HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) for IT security operations, they decided to adapt HP ArcSight ESM for fraud management. Learn More

Now Samsung is rumored to have AMD in its sights

The deal would make a certain amount of sense from Samsung's viewpoint, giving it crucial inroads into CPU and GPU markets and a line of attack against Qualcomm. READ MORE

Google for Work vs. Microsoft Office 365: A comparison of cloud tools (via CIO.com)

The former packs all the familiarities of the Google Apps suite, including Gmail, Hangouts, Drive and Calendar, while the latter comes with the longer legacy of tried-and-true Microsoft Office apps, such as Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Here's how they measure up. READ MORE

Will embedded OS and middleware help save Blackberry?

The financial news for Blackberry is potentially quite bad this week, as it has been for most of the past few years. READ MORE

The things end users do that drive security teams crazy (via CSOonline.com)

To protect users from public embarrassment their identities have been withheld in these true stories of failures to follow security protocol. READ MORE

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