#Samsung to launch fingerprint mobile payment service Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Group, has announced that it is launching a new fingerprint mobile payment service with local payment gateway firms KG
Mobilians and KG Inicis within South korea, with global expansion planned for later. The South korean tech giant has signed also a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA), a government-backed certificate licenser,
and will later launch other authentication services based on biometrics, the company said.""Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones,
but to instead provide our biometric solutions to online service and security companies,"said a Samsung SDS spokesperson."
"We plan to offer clients that need biometrics solution with various business models and offer differentiated authentication services."
"Samsung's self-developed biometrics authentication solution has received certification from the Fast IDENTITY Online (FIDO) Alliance, an international standard setter for online authentication,
the company said, which will allow it to expand the business globally. The certification is called FIDO Ready.
The FIDO Alliance has around 190 members, including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
and OTP will be replaced by FIDO-approved methods. FIDO-backed biometric authentications will become the de facto standard of the future,
"said the spokesman. The firm is forming a global integrated certification center, which it will start test running on its in-house intranet.
It will later expand it to Samsung affiliates and clients, so that all clients can use a unified certification platform.
Samsung SDS did not elaborate on how its biometrics solutions work, but said it includes the use of fingerprint-,iris,
-and voice-recognition technology for authentication. Security will be boosted by using biological information as a key
the company said. Meanwhile, Samsung last week announced that it aims to become one of the top 10 global IT service companies in the world,
with the aim of boosting revenue to 20 trillion won by 2020. Source: ZDNET Kore e
#Roche diagnostics & SAP Team to Fight Diabetes In 2014, diabetes took 4. 9 million lives worldwide.
That's one death every seven seconds. 52 million Europeans are living with diabetes, and in Germany alone, there are 6 to 8 million documented cases.
That number is projected to grow. German-based Roche diagnostics is dedicated to driving personalized and preventative medicine,
and with the severity of diabetes on the forefront of focus, Roche, in partnership with SAP, created new preventative care package.
The bundle, called Accu-Chek View, includes a blood glucose monitor, a wearable fitness tracker and an app developed by SAP that are integrated all together.
With Accu-Chekview, the patient can monitor glucose levels at home and transmit the information to the doctor's office via the app.
All data transferred is stored securely and processed via the SAP HANA Cloud platform. The app allows the doctor to monitor the patient remotely
and allows the patient to communicate with the doctor's office. This eliminates unnecessary trips to the physician, saving time and money.
This strengthened patient-doctor relationship facilitates a supportive and empowering psychological effect on patients. Slip ups in lifestyle can be caught quickly
because the app will red-flag the issue, the doctor can intervene, and the doctor and patient can work on solutions together.
Even pre-diabetics can benefit from this preventative care app. By using the app to detect the early signs of diabetes,
individuals can make the changes necessary to live a normal life. This Wednesday April 29th, Dr. Oliver Haferbeck, Head of Diabetes Care at Roche diagnostics will be part of a live panel on the Coffee break with Game Changers Radio.
Listen to the discussion titled, MD in the Palm of your Hand-Connected Care, and tune in live at 11 AM EST. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter via#SAPRADIO o
#Lifesaving research in the cloud Using the power of the cloud to improve organisational efficiencies is one thing,
but the potential benefits that can come from adopting on-demand IT in medical research are truly life-changing,
creating the potential for great advancements in patient care and long-term life prospects. What the cloud provides is a platform to store,
analyse, and compare huge information data sets. This means the types of detailed investigations that might have seemed impossible a decade ago can now be performed on a grand scale.
The results can be remarkable and a number of key use cases stand out. One example is Virginia Tech computer science professor Wu Feng and his team,
who have developed tools to help other researchers and clinicians in their quests to find cures for cancer, lupus and other diseases.
The team used a preexisting next-generation sequencing toolkit, made it run faster, and pushed the system to the cloud.
The resulting software, called Seqincloud, allows researchers to sequence and analyse a genomic data set in seconds.
Just a few years ago, sequencing a human genome cost $95m. Now, the price is $1 000.
And, by 2020, with the power of cloud and advanced computing, it may be a matter of pennies.
Feng and his team are part of a select group participating in a research programme called Computing in the Cloud (Cic),
which is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The aim of the NSF initiative is to provide science communities with the opportunity to conduct research and education activities on applications running in the cloud.
Healthcare research is also moving beyond the lab. Motor vehicle manufacturer Ford is working alongside other organisations to investigate how connected devices can help people monitor
and maintain health and wellness. The system would capture information from blood pressure monitors, activity monitors, and behavioural data shared by users.
The results would then be processed in the cloud. Use of the cloud is confined not just to the cutting-edge areas of healthcare
though. The American Cancer Society uses cloud-based office and collaboration technology to improve organisational efficiencies.
The Society expects to save $1. 5m every year in technology costs as a result. Whether used for progressive research or increased productivity,
cloud technology is vital to the medical world. On-demand IT cuts costs and increases healthcare options,
meaning more money can be directed to lifesaving initiatives s
#'Largest'denial-of-service attack hit Asian datacenter this year The largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack happened earlier this year, according to a threat intelligence and monitoring service.
Arbor networks said the attack had traffic of up to 334 Gbps, accounting for tens of thousands of connections, targeting one Asian network operator.
DDOS attacks are commonplace nowadays: activists and hackers often target a website or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt.
But it's rare to see an attack driving so much traffic. These attacks leverage a technique that amplifies the traffic attackers generate through hijacking computers'bandwidth,
while at the same time masking the source of the attack. These attacks are typically shorter in length--around 90 percent last less than an hour.
But they pack a punch. These kinds of attacks are increasingly common, the company said.
During the three-month period there were just 25 attacks larger than 100 Gbps in size
marking an increase in how these kinds of attacks occur. But the company said that the majority of these attacks could be mitigated with network filters,
which block traffic from spoofed addresses.""Attacks that are significantly above the 200gbps level can be extremely dangerous for network operators
and can cause collateral damage across service provider, cloud hosting and enterprise networks, "said Arbor networks'Darren Anstee in remarks s
#Google's Bigtable goes public as a cloud managed Nosql database Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings,
as a fully-managed cloud Nosql database service. Set out by the search-to-cloud giant in an influential 2006 paper, Bigtable powers applications such as Gmail,
Google analytics and Google search and is described by the company as designed for large ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads.
To date, Bigtable has not been explicitly available to the public, although it is the technology on
which Google's schema-less Nosql Cloud Datastore is built. Now available in beta Google Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the open-source Apache HBASE API,
making it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem, the company said.
Cloud Bigtable integrates with other Google big data products, such as messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software Bigquery."
"It has a tremendously low, single-digit millisecond latency compared with other options out there
and great price-performance, meaning the amount of data it can ingest, store and then write per dollar per month is extremely high,
"Cloud Bigtable product manager Cory O'connor said. Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."
"There's just this enormous amount of businesses that have these huge amounts of data and right now-we've talked to many of them-they're throwing away data
or they're expiring it after a certain amount of time. They simply don't have the time horizon.
They can't store enough data to be able to make these determinations, "O'connor said."
"All of this is being packaged in a product that you don't have to manage. Even if you had a piece of technology that could live up to these data sizes,
managing has always been a challenge.""Creating or reconfiguring Cloud Bigtable is carried out through a simple user interface,
with backing storage scaling automatically.""When we say fully managed, this is not fully deployed or managed deployment.
This is essentially an API that you provision with a guaranteed amount of server processor throughput behind it
and unlimited flexible storage behind that as well, "O'connor said.""What you have to do now, first off researching what database you want,
getting licences for that database, getting support contracts for it, figuring out which VMS to use
and prototyping the VM sizes and choosing memory-there are so many choices you have to make and so many numbers to research."
"According to O'connor, with storage, network, backup, and VMS to think about, conventional configurations are a complex business even without reckoning with deployment."
"That involves spinning up the VMS, deploying the software, configuring all the nodes-a ton of work going in there.
For Bigtable you're literally going to pop into a website and the UI and you're going to say,
'I want a new cluster, '"he said.""It will ask for your name and essentially how much performance you want out of the cluster.
You click the create button and within about two to three seconds, you've got the green little check box in the UI
and you've got your cluster that's ready to do 100,000 reads and writes per second
and scale the data to whatever you want immediately. Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable.
We know very well how to manage it.""O'connor said the new service could, for example, be used by companies to move from an HBASE
or Cassandra cluster on premises or in the cloud.""A lot of people in the Hadoop ecosystem say HBASE is hard,
even if they're experts at it. There are a lot of advantages that this has over running your own HBASE or Cassandra cluster,
"O'connor said.""We see customers with multiple petabytes of data, reading and writing from the database a hundred thousand times a second and all sorts of various data,
whether it's web data or sensor data. They have these instances, they have these databases
and it's very hard to manage them.""The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.
Pricing is 65 cents per Bigtable node, which is the unit in which performance is provisioned.
Each node delivers up to 10,000 reads and writes per second, or about 10mb/s of throughputs for scans where there are no individual reads
and writes. Storage is billed on a pay-as-you-go basis at 17 cents per GB per month for SSD-based storage.
There will soon be a lower cost alternative based on hard-disk storage at 2. 6 cents per GB per month
the same price as Google Cloud platform object storage.""That's amazing because what you have is a very hot high-performance database running on a storage tier that's the same price as slower, colder, blob-based storage,
"O'connor said. Data can be imported into the new service through an offline disk-based service or via an online transfer,
where the data is scooped into an object store and from there into a Bigtable cluster. O'connor said the role of the HBASE API in Cloud Bigtable will help reassure companies over potential fears about finding themselves locked into Google."
"Since this is delivered through the standard HBASE open-source API and because we're providing easy services to import
and export in standard formats, it makes it very easy for someone to say, 'You know what?
I'll buy this. I know that if there's a reason why I don't like this,
it's easy to get the data out into exactly the same system that was running it before,
"he said.""Many people have said that's one of the main reasons why they're ready to take petabytes of data
and dump it into this-because they have that assurance. They feel good about that open-source nature of the interface."
"For security, Google is providing replicated storage and encryption of all data in flight and at rest.
The company has worked with a number of partners, from Sungard for financial data platforms, Pythian for monitoring, CCRI for real-time geospatial analysis, to Telit Wireless Solutions for data ingestion,
to help firms build applications on Cloud Bigtable. The beta is available initially in Google's central US region, Europe and APAC,
with others geographies to follow.""We've got a long future of betas that we're going to be releasing-different types of storage, different features running management,
But even after general availability, this is something that Google believes is tremendously valuable and the features will not stop before GA
#SAP and Heidelberg University Hospital Personalize Pregnancy Care This Sunday is International Women's Day,
In line with women's health, connected care plays a crucial role in keeping the world's XX-chromosomes healthy.
Eminently preventative in nature, connected care helps health providers stop illness before it starts. Through mobile innovations and sensor technologies, today's doctors can report on key health indicators to prevent illnesses altogether
or detect it early, saving lives and thousands in reactive care costs. Heidelberg University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in all of Europe
is a perfect example of connected care working to improve women's lives. In partnership with SAP and abcmedien, the University Hospital developed an app to provide pregnant women all information needed along their pregnancy and beyond.
However, unlike the typical pregnancy app, which only pushes consumer product information, the healthcare experts at Heidelberg University Hospital created this app to serve as a dual resource for both mothers and physicians alike.
Because pregnancy doesn't require frequent doctors'appointments, it's difficult to gather feedback from pregnant moms.
To maintain a close relationship with mothers during pregnancy the app asks users discrete and subtle psychological questions purposed to gather information to identify
and prevent health issues like depression. During pregnancy, hormones change and can affect brain chemicals, inducing antepartum depression and/or anxiety.
According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, roughly 14-23 percent of women will struggle with symptoms of depression at some point during their pregnancy.
Luckily, antepartum depression is 100 percent treatable, but in many cases, the pregnant mother assumes that the mood changes are nothing more than normal hormonal imbalances (similar to PMS).
At Heidelberg University Hospital, doctors can analyze the answers obtained through the app, and proactively identify mothers at risk for such illness
and provide them with the necessary resources to treat the depression before it takes effect.
because research suggests that children of women who experienced depression during pregnancy have a higher risk of becoming depressed as adults (JAMA Psychiatry).
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
In the future, Heidelberg University Hospital hopes to expand the app to help treat and monitor cancer patients as well as other diseases.
By engaging with pregnant women and monitoring their health via this mobile application, Heidelberg University Hospital can reduce immediate and long-term risks for mother and for baby.
The traditional relationship between patient and doctor still exists but now, with connected care, society is transitioning to a more proactive and preventive patient/doctor relationship leading to healthier lives and lower healthcare costs s
#Italy's#6bn broadband plan: Spread 100mbps far and wide, fill in the rural notspots Summary: The government has laid down#6bn to give Italy better broadband,
and it's hoping local telcos will do the same. On Tuesday, the Italian government approved a plan to boost broadband connectivity in the country
'The strategy includes#6bn of investment to modernize the country's network infrastructure, increase fibre broadband coverage,
Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in
and with the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti bank to act as a guarantor, the Italian national press agency ANSA reported.
The government has dismissed also the rumour circulating recently that it would force Telecom italia to replace its copper network with fibre."
#Yahoo launches password-free logins Yahoo If remembering passwords is too much of a chore, Yahoo will make them for you.
During a session at the South by Southwest festival hosted in Austin, Texas, as reported by sister site CNET,
the tech giant launched"on-demand"passwords, which takes remembering your security password to access accounts of the equation.
Yahoo's vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said during the event that the service is the"first step to eliminating passwords."
"Available now in the US, on-demand passwords work by users first logging into their Yahoo accounts normally.
The next step is to register your phone and connect it to your account. When you next login,
A password containing four characters will then be sent to your phone, verifying your identity through the linked device
While Casey said the service was designed after Yahoo put itself"in the shoes of the people using our products"
which is slowly being adopted by web services worldwide. Two-step verification services rely not only on the traditional password--which is often easily crackable,
--but also often involves an additional code being sent to a linked mobile device to heighten account security.
which makes breaking into accounts far more difficult without an attacker having physical access to your mobile device.
While users may enjoy the convenience of on-demand passwords --as long as their devices are lost not
or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,
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Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
Encryption will be offered via a plugin, developed by Yahoo and Google after the Edward Snowden US National security agency (NSA) revelations.
While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,
the tech giant has been forced to backtrack on its decision across the board due to compatibility and performance issues in older devices.
#South korea to invest $300m in biotech The South korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy,
and other local agencies have announced plans to invest $300 million in fostering biotechnology over the course of 2015
with South korea planning to secure 2 percent share by 2017 and 3 percent by 2020 with the new investments.
As of 2012, it controlled just 1. 3 percent share in global biotechnology, the ministries said.
Fresh investments will be placed annually, with the amount of funding and the projects chosen each year depending on promising areas,
though it will increase overall. Single projects will be able to get up to $16 million this year,
Biotechnology is quickly gaining popularity in South korea, the government said, with startups working on the area accounting for 13.7 percent of listed companies on the KOSDAW based on market value.
In comparison, it accounted for only 3. 6 percent in 2004. Venture capitalists invested a total of $225 million in biotech last year
more than IT manufacturing's $150. 8 million and IT services'$131 million. The government expects the global biotechnology market to see rapid growth,
and expects it to dwarf the semiconductor, chemical, and automotive industries by 2024--the three major sectors that South korea is currently most profitable in.
The government will also help companies gain certification abroad, and provide the medical standards of 37 countries.
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#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft
mobile apps and services on Android tablets. The Android preload deals, announced March 23, cover both consumer and business Microsoft apps and services.
Samsung, for its part, will preinstall Microsoft services and apps on its"portfolio of Android devices.""Samsung committed to offering Microsoft office 365
and Samsung Knox Business Pack on Android tablets, as well. Samsung announced last month it would preinstall Onenote,
Onedrive and Skype on the Glaxy S6 and S6 Edge in the coming months--some time in the first half of calendar 2015,
Samsung also will preinstall Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on"select"Samsung Android tablets,
Samsung announced today. Users who purchase new Android tablets via Samsung's business-to-business sales channels will have the option of purchasing a bundle of one of three versions of Office 365--Businesss
Business Premium or Enterprise, coupled with Samsung's Knox security offering. Microsoft also announced today it has expanded bundling deals with Dell,
as well as regional OEMS including Trekstor of Germany, JP Sa Couto of Portugal, Datamatic of Italy, DEXP of Russia, Hipstreet of Canada, QMOBILE of Pakistan, Tecno of Africa,
and Casper of Turkey, and Pegatron. These hardware partners will preinstall Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on Android devices coming to market later this year.
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
who reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella.)If the rumor mill is right, Android distribution startup Cyanogen might be next up to forge a similar bundling relationship with Microsoft.
A recent Forbes report claims Cyanogen is"close to finalizing a wide-ranging partnership to incorporate several of Microsoft's mobile services,
including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."
"Microsoft originally was rumored to be considering making a minority investment in Cyanogen, but supposedly the Redmondians have decided against that, at least for now
#Electronic voting will eventually replace postal ballots: NSWEC CIO The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is looking to replace postal votes,
and believes the solution is the ivote platform. NSW Electoral Commission CIO Ian Brightwell outlined during recent state elections 283,000 people relied on ivote to cast their votes, many of
whom were living overseas or were travelling interstate.""They were using it because postal voting isn't working anymore,
"he said, speaking at the Technology in Government Summit in Canberra on Wednesday.""As you know Australia Post is having a few problems...
and they're going to be struggling in the future and we don't know where they're going,
but we believe in an election or two, postal is not really going to be an option for us."
"Brightwell added there is a level of integrity "when it comes to electronic voting because of the"controls and checks"."
""If you think about paper voting, you just simply trust us. The scrutiny in the polling place is not that high
He went on to say that relying on two large warehouses of 500 contractors to manually count the paper ballots is not often always the best method."
because we can't guarantee everyone is going to work like a machine. So what we get in the end is an approximation,
"There was no fault on the computer systems per se; it was a human error in data entry,
"Brightwell told ZDNET at the time.""Unfortunately, at the time of going live, we didn't have an opportunity to view the ballot paper."
"But this particular problem is a human error in data entry. To wrap it up as an ivote error is a little bit misleading
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