#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."
including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
which it will start test running on its in-house intranet. It will later expand it to Samsung affiliates and clients,
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Arbor networks said the attack had traffic of up to 334 Gbps, accounting for tens of thousands of connections, targeting one Asian network operator.
activists and hackers often target a website or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt.
During the three-month period there were just 25 attacks larger than 100 Gbps in size
#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,
Google analytics and Google search and is described by the company as designed for large ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads.
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."
Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."
For Bigtable you're literally going to pop into a website and the UI and you're going to say,
Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable. We know very well how to manage it."
whether it's web data or sensor data. They have these instances, they have these databases
"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.
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,
Data can be imported into the new service through an offline disk-based service or via an online transfer,
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."
"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,
The beta is available initially in Google's central US region, Europe and APAC, with others geographies to follow."
But even after general availability, this is something that Google believes is tremendously valuable and the features will not stop before GA
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in
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,
or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,
Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
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.
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."
TRU-D's system analyzes the variables of the room and floods the space (both line-of-site and shadowed spaces) with the proper dose of UV LIGHT energy.
and simultaneously uploads the information to the hospital's web portal, meaning it integrates well into a new health care paradigm centering around data collection and analysis."With rising issues around health care-associated infections,
#Google shuffles leadership structure with new CEO, Alphabet company Google made waves on Monday afternoon with the surprise announcement of a new CEO and leadership structure.
First, Google's product chief Sundar Pichai has been promoted to the top gig at the Internet giant, replacing cofounder Larry page as CEO.
or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
"We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations,
and is the core of how we index with Google search, "Page exclaimed.""We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark),
"Google crafted Alphabet to both consolidate and scale its multiple businesses, according to the 8-K form.
Basically, the top leaders of Google have shifted over to the new Alphabet leadership structure, with some overlaps.
For example, the 8-K noted Porat will also be CFO at Google. Other product leadership roles will remain the same, such as Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity. All Google shares will automatically convert into the same number of shares for Alphabet with all of the same rights.
However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Pichai is slated to takeover the company when the deal goes through. Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.
But the decision to promote Pichai is perhaps the least surprising bit of news in all of this as his status at the tech behemoth has risen dramatically in the last two years.
Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,
who then moved elsewhere within Google to work on more innovative, moonshot-like projects. He was promoted eventually to oversee Google's entire product portfolio, encompassing Google maps, research, search, commerce and ads and infrastructure on top of his prior existing duties.
Page highlighted the recent launches of Google Now and Google Photos as examples of Pichai's success during his tenure thus far."
"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google
and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations, "Page wrote.
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
as well as incubators tied to Google Ventures and Capital. Acknowledging that the entire shift overall--let alone the new name--might be asserted puzzling,
#Windows 10 Mobile preview 10512 goes to testers It's been a month since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile test Build on August 12,
Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512, which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring."
"Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality, "said Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program,
Among the list of what's new in today's new Windows 10 Mobile test build:
Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
#inuxone: IBM's new Linux mainframes SEATTLE--At Linuxcon, IBM launched Linuxone, a new pair of IBM mainframes along with Linux and open-source software and services.
IBM will also create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVS) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing,
With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but, like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use.
and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits cracks open
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
and cellphones are sold each year. We want to lower the odds of a battery fire to one in a billion or even to zero.
You might get a message on your phone telling you that the voltage has dropped to zero so the battery needs to be replaced Zhuo said.
and off has limited their use as a light source in light-based telecommunications. In an LED atoms can be forced to emit roughly 10 million photons in the blink of an eye.
Modern telecommunications systems however operate nearly a thousand times faster. To make future light-based communications using LEDS practical researchers must get photon-emitting materials up to speed.
#Computerized surveillance system quickly detects disease outbreaks among preschoolers A web-based system that allows preschools
#Sensor invented that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries.
The copper strips act like radio antennas. The rubber serves as an insulator. The technology involves beaming radio waves through this simple antenna-and-rubber sandwich.
When the device comes under pressure the copper antennas squeeze the rubber insulator and move infinitesimally closer together.
Radio waves passing through the two antennas slow down in terms of frequency. When pressure is relaxed the copper antennas move apart
The engineers proved that this effect was measurable giving them a way to gauge the pressure exerted on the device by tracking the frequency of radio waves passing through the device.
In experiments on laboratory mice Tse used radio waves to probe Bao's wireless sensor allowing him to monitor changes in intracranial pressure continuously.
By putting this pyramid-shaped rubber layer between the copper antennas this team of engineers was able to exploit the subtle interactions of radio waves
To assess the durability of this intervention the researchers followed antibiotic prescribing across intervention and control sites after termination of audit and feedback.
We've already learned that the histone proteins found at the sites of genes can be modified chemically with a variety of small chemical tags that either promote
"The sensor is connected to a modem using radio frequency systems. The processed information from the elder's movement pattern may include factors such as temperature, heart rate and deviations in the usual activity path,
The research team carefully selected 30 different grassland sites--three of which are used already for small-scale bioenergy production--and 11 cornfields in southern Wisconsin.
The team found that the presence of grasslands within one kilometer of the study sites also helped boost bird species diversity and bird density in the area.
But the rash persisted and a few years later a rare form of skin cancer known as Marjolin's ulcer developed at the surgical site.
The researchers showed that contact allergy brings inflammatory cells and molecules to the site of the allergic reaction.
and molecules become active at the site of the reaction. The new mix of cells and molecules promotes the development of skin tumors.
This could affect how they incorporate into cellular networks for example leading to the clinical symptoms that we see in kids with these diseases s
Using a technique known as Chia-PET the researchers focused on how these proteins interact. y knowing which of the Cohesin/CTCF bound sites are coming together in physical proximity we started to go from a linear view of the genome to sets of looping interactions
#Smartphone understands hand gestures Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures.
This development expands the range of potential interactions with such devices. It does seem slightly odd at first:
they are for controlling your smartphone. By mimicking the firing of a pistol for example a user can switch to another browser tab change the map's view from satellite to standard
Intelligent programming uses computer memorythe program uses the smartphone's built-in camera to register its environment.
and is thus ideal for smartphones. He believes the application is the first of its kind that can run on a smartphone.
The app's minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented reality glasses.
He is convinced that this new way of operating smartphones greatly increases the range of interactivity.
so that users can operate their smartphone effortlessly. But will smartphone users want to adapt to this new style of interaction?
Otmar Hilliges is confident they will. Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it.
Guan notes that the site-specific analytical capabilities of this technique should give researchers finer control over selective surface vaporization of alloying elements for enhanced, high-tech applications."
Together with telecommunications businessman Kaj Juul-Pedersen, he established the company Dencrypt, which sells dynamic encryption to businesses
so they can safely exchange confidential information over the telephone.""Today, all telephone conversations are encrypted --i e. converted into gibberish
--but they are encrypted not all the way from phone to phone, and if a third party has access to one of the telephone masts through which the call passes,
they can listen in, "explains Lars Ramkilde Knudsen.""And even if the conversation is encrypted--in principle--it is still possible to decrypt it provided you have sufficient computer power,
This is in no small part due to the fact that the vast majority of telecommunications operators use the same encryption algorithm--the so-called AES,
The clever thing about it is that your phone can decrypt the information without knowing which system you have chosen.
and encryption method--and both are thrown away by the phone after each call and replaced by a new combination--the conversation is extremely difficult to decrypt
budgets and secret plans using phone tapping, for example. In the USA alone, the phenomenon costs businesses around USD 100 billion every year according to a 2014 report on the subject by security firm Mcafee.
Researchers noted that stricter guidelines for exit site management wound care and antibiotic therapy could reduce that risk in future studies.
and fog while retaining their transparency to radio frequencies (RF). The technology was introduced this month in the American Chemical Society journal Applied materials and Interfaces.
when exposed to high-powered radio signals.""At extremely high RF, the thicker portions were absorbing the signal,
but also be transparent to radio frequencies. It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
This could help alleviate that problem.""Tour noted future generations of long-range Wi-fi may also benefit."
"It's going to be important, as Wi-fi becomes more ubiquitous, especially in cities. Signals can't get through anything that's metallic in nature,
but these layers are so thin they won't have any trouble penetrating.""He said nanoribbon films also open a path toward embedding electronic circuits in glass that are both optically and RF transparent.
and divide and could reveal binding sites for future cancer drugs. A team from The Institute of Cancer Research London and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge produced the first detailed images of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/C). The APC/C
The new study could identify binding sites for potential cancer drugs. Each of the APC/C's subunits bond
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
His group sampled the waters in dozens of sites from New york to northwestern Minnesota; they found 83 sites that were infested.
The scientists checked out Lakes Michigan Superior and many interior lakes and lingered two years in Voyageurs national park on Minnesota's border with Canada to examine Bythotrephes'long-term effect on the native zooplankton.
Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.
offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
and that excites the quartz tuning fork.""The tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
Rus group has shown an important step forward in multirobot cooperation by demonstrating how three mobile arms can figure out how to assemble a chair,
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
The new study presents a solution to a longstanding roadblock to increasing data transmission rates in optical fiber:
which in turn extends how far signals can travel in optical fiber without needing a repeater, said Nikola Alic, a research scientist from the Qualcomm Institute, the corresponding author on the Science paper and a principal of the experimental effort.
The frequency comb described in this paper ensures that the signal distortions called the rosstalkthat arises between bundled streams of information traveling long distances through the optical fiber are predictable,
In this study, we present a method for leveraging the crosstalk to remove the power barrier for optical fiber
In an optical fiber information is transmitted through multiple communication channels that operate at different frequencies. The electrical engineers used their frequency comb to synchronize the frequency variations of the different streams of optical information,
called the ptical carrierspropagating through an optical fiber. This approach compensates in advance for the crosstalk that occurs between the multiple communication channels within the same optical fiber.
The frequency comb also ensures that the crosstalk between the communication channels is reversible. fter increasing the power of the optical signals we sent by 20 fold,
when it is sent through the optical fiber. With the frequency comb, the information can be unscrambled and fully restored at the receiving end of the optical fiber. e are preempting the distortion effects that will happen in the optical fiber,
said Bill Kuo, a research scientist at the Qualcomm Institute, who was responsible for the comb development in the group.
and Google Inc. for support of this work through a Google research grant. The University of California has filed a patent on the method and applications of frequency-referenced carriers for compensation of nonlinear impairments in transmission.
vercoming Kerr-induced capacity limit in optical fiber transmission, Science 26 june 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6242 pp. 1445-1448;
#MIT Chemists Develop a Quantum dot Spectrometer Researchers from MIT have designed a quantum dot spectrometer that is small enough to function within a smartphone, enabling portable light analysis. Instruments that measure the properties of light,
but MIT scientists have shown now they can create spectrometers small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera,
and placed on top of a photodetector such as the charge-coupled devices (CCDS) found in cellphone cameras. The researchers created an algorithm that analyzes the percentage of photons absorbed by each filter,
or smartphones, the researchers say. They may also be useful for other applications where high power is needed in small volumes
for example using Wi-fi, over a long distance. At the moment, the coin-sized batteries used in many small electronic devices have limited very ability to deliver a lot of power at once,
which is what such data transmissions need. ong-distance Wi-fi requires a fair amount of power,
#How 3g technology is improving HIV patient care in Kenya Kenya has an extensive population that infected with HIV and until very recently,
3g wireless technology. And it appears to be working. ART treatment is very laborious with a tremendous administrative burden.
The 3g technology has allowed clinics to computerize much of their administrative work, streamlining the submission process and saving time.
since patients need close supervision to ensure they are taking their medications on schedule. 3g technology is making a difference People in developed countries may think that 3g is outdated technology for smartphones,
Its effort is called Qualcomm Wireless Reach and so far has touched 40 countries through more than 100 projects.
Masabi is known for its comprehensive mobile ticketing platform already in use by 22 transit agencies worldwide.
A travel website article that provides step-by-step instructions for using the buses there is longer than most blog posts.
The Mastercard/Masabi partnership allows riders to buy their tickets with a quick tap on their smartphone.
With the Mastercard/Masabi partnership, the smartphone is the common platform. The rechargeable contactless cards used by many transit systems also create two lines:
their smartphone is the kiosk. So far, the partners have announced only their joint work in Athens. On its own,
Nanjing, China implemented a social media program that engaged more than two-million people for the 2014 Youth Olympic games.
###Kevin Ebi is a staff writer and social media coordinator for the Council. Follow@smartccouncil on Twitter.
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use social media, work with police and get help from the general public. The digital guide is the outcome of O'Keeffe's collaboration with Studio Thick
The MPAN guide has proven so effective that the police are now directing the public to the site.
This action-oriented site helps apartment owners and renters implement energy efficiency in their shared property with templates
Before creating the site, the Melbourne studio conducted design research among the user group which included in depth interviews and mapping the user journey,
Tech brings project filing mentality to email For now, at least, email remains one of the most widely methods of business collaboration and communication--for sharing business intelligence in its truest form.
But, oh, the pain of keeping it organized over time and over multiple projects. Addition of search tools and folders,
Enter Recommind's Decisiv Email, an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that manages messages from a collaborative perspective.
Decisiv Email offers more than a carbon-copy of what's going on it works behind-the-scenes to analyze
That's what makes Decisiv email different from the rules that you can add to your individual email system.
whether or not you were copied on the email. How automatic that tagging process winds up being is up to your individual organization:
to make sure that critical emails are accessible to all important personnel, mainly for operational purposes but also useful from a compliance standpoint.
said the idea behind Decisiv Email is to help make it simpler for organizations to find
Recommind is working on tablet and smartphone integration. What about privacy, you ask? A tool like Decisiv Email will definitely make you think twice about what you write in an email or about
what you decide to exclude.""Everything that you send in corporate email will be available for people to see
if it is relevant for the business, "Schueren said d
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