Confusion About the Forthcoming Apple iPad

Just in case you’re thinking of buying one, and doing some Complex Event Processing with it, or a network of them, the “Jobs confusion” is already out there!
Read the WSJ article by Walter S. Mossberg:
“For the past week or so, I have been testing a sleek, light, silver-and-black tablet computer called an iPad. After spending [...]

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How spam filters dictated Canadian magazine’s fate

by Jude Sheerin, BBC News
After 90 years, one of Canada’s oldest magazines, The Beaver, is changing its name.  Its publishers say it was only natural that a Canadian history journal should have been named in honour of the industrious dam-building creature which is the country’s national emblem.
But in recent times the [...]

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Mobile that allows bosses to snoop on staff developed

by Michael Fitzpatrick, BBC News, Tokyo
Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff.  Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back [...]

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The BBC’s Hi-tech Crime Glossary

by Mark Ward, Technology Correspondent, BBC News website
Like many subjects, information security comes with its own terminology and the jargon can be opaque to outsiders. Below is the list of terms in the Glossary that helps shed light on the murky world of cyber crime.
DCL: I thought it might be interesting to compare it [...]

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Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring

by Declan McCullagh cnet news

The Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official told CNET on Wednesday that the department may eventually extend its Einstein technology, which is designed to detect and prevent electronic attacks, to networks operated by the private sector. The technology was created for federal networks.
Greg Schaffer, assistant [...]

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Apple’s Patently Absurd HTC Suit

by Dan Costa, PCmag.com
“If Apple’s target is Google’s Android, why is the company going after HTC? Because HTC brought a knife to a gun fight.”
Apple’s claim that HTC’s Android phones violate at least 20 of its patents seems, at a glance, like simple corporate maneuvering. Android is, arguably, the iPhone OS’s strongest competitor, [...]

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