Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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Geeks chase women out of game conference

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:02 AM PST

frankenstein-villagersLeading women game designers have been chased away from the PAX East convention in Boston with threats of rape and death.

Brianna Wu, cofounder of the Boston video game studio Giant Spacekat, has pulled her company off the exhibition floor at next month's event because of safety concerns for the five other women who work with her. more»

Samsung starts trading in Chinese currency

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:01 AM PST

samsung-hqSamsung Electronics has announced that it will start trading the Chinese currency directly with the South Korean won.

The news came as the South Korean government announced that it hoped to sign a final free trade agreement with China within the first half of the year, in a further sign of strengthening relations between the countries. more»

Apple has to pay troll toll for use of iTunes

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:01 AM PST

trollFruity cargo cult Apple has gone up against the Troll Gods of East Texas and ended up having to pay $532.9 million.

A federal jury found Apple's iTunes software infringed three patents owned by Texas-based patent licensing company Smartflash. Smartflash wanted $852 million in damages. more»

5G boffins break 1Tbps speed limit

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:00 AM PST

speed University of Surrey researchers working on  5G mobile broadband claim to have broken the transfer speed limit of 1Tbps (Terabits per second).

Normally when people talk about 5G they are happen to hint at speeds of 10Gbps to 50Gbps (Gigabits per second). more»

Peak Google is the latest daft rumour

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 02:58 AM PST

Google's Eric "Google Glass" SchmidtThe US tech press is full of a bizarre story that Google might have hit its peak.

According to NPR, some tech industry observers aren’t sure that Google will be ready for the next big thing and there is talk of something called "Peak Google". more»

Freescale warns of insecure Internet of Things

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 07:28 AM PST

Internet of ThingsChip company Freescale said that people are facing "the most dire challenge" the internet of things (IoT) has faced so far – the lack of guidelines for security.

Freescale said that US agency DARPA had managed to hack into a car manufacturers braking system, while the US Federal Trade Commission raised concerns about the security of interconnected systems and devices. more»

Chinese net users amount to 648 million

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 06:51 AM PST

chinaflagMainland China's Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) released figures of the number of people on the internet in the country, as well as the devices used to access the web.

By the end of 2014, 648.75 million people using both cable and mobile were able to access the web, that's practically 50 percent of the population. more»

Google’s blog platform acts to block porn

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 06:41 AM PST

Google the OgleSearch giant Google said that after March 23rd this year, people using its Blogger platform won't be able to show images or videos that are sexually explicit.

However, in a statement it said that Blogger will allow nudity "if the content offers a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, documentary or scientific contexts". more»

Enterprises fail to act on cybersecurity

Posted: 24 Feb 2015 06:34 AM PST

William Blake: War - WIkimedia CommonsIt won't be until 2018 that large enterprises will have proper plans to protect themselves from cyber attacks causing business disruption.

And, even then, only 40 percent of these organisations will have such plans.

That's what a report from Gartner says, which warns that chief information security officers need to set their priorities/

Gartner thinks the frequency of a cyber attack on a large scale is low, but if it does happen, the implications are sever. more»

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