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GoDaddy wins against Oscar people

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:56 AM PDT

Kate Blanchett - Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Eva RinaldiThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) accused GoDaddy in 2010 of selling names which the maker of Oscars claimed caused incidents of cyber squatting.

But a US district judge in LA turned down the law case brought by the Academy in 2010 and said GoDaddy had acted in good faith selling domain names including academyawards.net, according to Reuters.

The Academy wanted GoDaddy to pay $100,000 for 293 alleged infringements but Judge Andre Birotte told it to get on its bike.

The good judge took just 129 pages to dismiss the Academy's law suit and said GoDaddy had acted in good faith over domain names registrations.

Reuters said it had tried to talk to the Academy about an appeal but they were closeted in a place where they couldn't take calls.

People can hack into smart watches

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 06:51 AM PDT

WatchScientists at the University of Illinois said they've conducted an experiment which shows that – like all computing devices – hackers can break into smart watches.

The researchers used an app they built on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch sand said they could guess what a user was typing because of data "leaks" originating from the motion sensors built into the device.

They believe that the project shows that smart watches have security implications because an app that purported to be, for example, a pedometer could harvest data from emails, search queries and documents.

Romit Roy Choudhury, associate professor of electrical and computing engineering at Illinois said these devices give invaluable insightsinto human health but "also make way for deeper violation into human privacy".

The app Illinois University made uses an accelerometer and gyroscope to track micro motion of keystrokes. The scientists then ran the data they'd harvested using a keystroke detection module which can measure the net 2D displacement of the watch as a person types.

One way to prevent this type of security breach is for designers to reduce the sample rate of sensors from the current 200 Hertz to below 15, making it very difficult to track the movement of the wrists.

Microphone is one sixth the size of a bed bug

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 06:41 AM PDT

Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 14.40.19Engineers at ABI Research have torn apart a high end smartphone and discovered that one of its components, a MEM microphone made by Cirrus Logic is the smallest made yet.

The Cirrus MEM microphone is 30 percent smaller than other devices and includes an amplifier/interface integrated circuit as well as the MEM sensor.

Jim Mielke, VP of engineering at ABI, said: "Rather than simply shrinking the typical MEM microphone, Cirrus Logic's WM1706 MEM microphone is the first to integrate an amplifier/interface IC and the MEM sensor."

ABI did not say which phone the engineers took apart to examine the device but as a hint includes a Qualcomm MSM8949 chipset, a Skyworks power amplifier, Qorvo RF switches and a Broadcom NFC component.

Flash is no flash in the pan

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 06:31 AM PDT

EMC logoThe use of flash memory in external storage systems grew by 113 percent year on year in the European Middle East and Africa (EMEA) territories, according to figures released by IDC.

IDC said that although economic instability held back sales a little, but the rise, which accounted for revenues of $1.63 billion, indicates that enterprises are steadily moving to public cloud adoption by European enterprises.

While EMC remained at number one in the second quarter, followed by HP, Netapp, IBM and Dell, the original development manufacturers (ODMs) which sell directly, had a 23.9 percent share of the market, outselling all these vendors but EMC, which had a 26.4 percent share.

IDC believes that in Western Europe, adoption of flash, and in particular all flash arrays rather than hybrid devices, will continue to grow with enterprises and organisations going towards software defined and flash based datacentres.

IBM buys cloud company

Posted: 11 Sep 2015 06:13 AM PDT

Cumulus clouds - Wikimedia CommonsAnother day and another cloud announcement from IBM.

Today it said it has bought software company Strongloop. Strongloop, San Mateo company, specialises in providing application programming interfaces (API) for enterprises.

IBM said it bought it because it has an important role in connecting enterprise apps to mobile, the internet of things, and web applications in the cloud.

IBM didn't say how much it paid for the privately held company.

IBM will seek to weld its Node.is product into IBM Bluemix.

Big Blue will provide worldwide support for the Strongloop family by the second half of next year and will create support for Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
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