because the lasers can encode data much faster than white LEDS. In the future, the scientists plan to explore
high-energy photon has potential applications in biological imaging, high-density data storage, and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDS) L
#Google s Unified Privacy Policy Draws Threat Of $15m Fine In The netherlands The national data protection authority in The netherlands has warned Google that it could be fined up to $15 million
to comply with Dutch data protection law. Google January 2012 decision to combine the privacy policies of some 60 different products in order for it to be able to gather more intel on webs users for targeting ads quickly triggered a data protection review in October 2012
led The french data protection watchdog. That action was followed by individual investigations by multiple data protection watchdogs in Europe with six member states,
including The netherlands, launching probes into Google handling of personal data in April last year. The Dutch data protection authority, the CBP, has evidently run out of patience with Google.
In a statement earlier this week, the CBP said it requires Google to gain unambiguous consent from users to combine multiple privacy policies across its products specifying that this consent cannot be gained by a general agreement to a privacy policy
but must be done ia a clear permission screen Google must also clearly explain what personal data is being obtained by which of its services and for what purpose,
and this information must be clearly and consistently conveyed in its privacy policy, it said.
The CBP is concerned also that Youbube be labeled clearly as a Google service albeit the Dutch DPA notes that Google seems to have taken already action on this point.
The CBP does add that Google has sent a letter to the six data protection authorities which launched reviews namely France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
ee disappointed with the Dutch data protection authority order, especially as we have made already a number of changes to our privacy policy in response to their concerns.
what shaping up to be one of the largest corporate data breaches to date.?Every news outlet that did the bidding of the hacking group Guardians of Peace is morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable,
but there is data in the breach that worth reporting to the public but not the social security numbers, private and personal information,
but that alone does not mean all the data needed to be revealed in detail by the press if that Sorkin critique,
and o Write Love on Her Arms, alongside large data dumps from inside Sony corporate network.
but corporate IT policies are meant to protect those mistakes from becoming publicly shared data. Sony Pictures, one of the U s. largest studios, has now,
but for legitimate reasons like backup, archiving, or transfer to a new hire). But more importantly, employees dealing with sensitive information seem not to understand that email is not a place where an HR employee needs to be detailing a child medical treatment,
SOPA efforts failed by working with state attorneys general and major ISPS like Comcast to expand court power over the way data is served.
Only a small number of documents have been revealed so far the hackers reportedly captured over 100 terabytes of data.
But also, more generally, that this happened, that this level of private data can be revealed, and that it can be revealed with ease can help us all.
so Baidu is licensing our map data, but we can give any further info unfortunately,
But it less good on that data outside of its domestic market. Mapping and navigation have long been hot areas for platform companies looking for strong positions in mobile.
the first data provider to deliver open access to the commercial real estate marketplace. If you ask a member of the business-tech community about the benefits of closed systems versus their open counterparts,
Once concerned primarily with keeping hackers and other utsidersfrom accessing sensitive data consumers are now more aware of the importance of maintaining personal security and privacy from corporations, governments and other powerful nsiders.
and financial data being up front about long-term goals (or your more agile, wait -and-see approach,
Collaboration Leads to Innovation Some of the most talked-about startups in recent years would not exist if not for open data.
Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route, which adjusts in real time as the user drives.
if Waze tried to generate this data by itself instead of tapping into the free, unlimited power of collaboration.
The largest data providers have served as arbitrary gatekeepers for the world commercial real estate listings by asking brokers and agencies for info on their available spaces,
and businesses built around proprietary data have an expiration date. If your startup is basing its business model on data that another company could feasibly gather
and give away for free, you can expect that very thing to happen in the near future.
one of the local mental health authorities participating in the Utah Smartcare initiative. his data will allow us to better assess how our clients are doing between appointments
Nielsen data also revealed the impact of streaming video: TV viewing was down 7 percent year-over-year as of October among the 18-49-year-old demographic.
and sends the data back to your home office via Wi-fi. It is powered self and can be removed in minutes.
Fueloyal is unique in that you don have to modify the tank in order to gather the data.
with consistently updated content databases of makes and models currently in use, allows companies to reference the power consumption of each device,
which will have many similarities to existing U k. policies the government is proposing that enterprises be allowed to utilize data from other schemes,
#Following Numerous Data Breaches Dashlane And Lastpass Apps Can Now Reset Passwords For You Data breaches like the ones at Target, Neiman Marcus, Staples, Home depot,
however, that it makes the password changes locally on your machine so it never has access to your data.
The company hopes to do that by combining low-powered wireless connectivity and a smart distribution network for data coming from those devices.
That because the big idea behind Helium is to use unlicensed wireless bandwidth to transmit small amounts of data from various connected device
To do that, the company is developing its own wireless data protocol and wireless modules that can be inserted into devices that manufacturers want to be a part of its network.
since the devices in question would be delivering bytes of data rather than megabytes, it could create its own connection to them in a cost effective manner without relying on existing cellular or Wifi networks.
and transmit small amounts of data from those devices seamlessly. While Helium hopes to build out its own network for devices to connect to
it not ruling out letting devices add data through other networking solutions. After all, as Chandhok told me,
or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.
This will enable users to segment##activity on their##device by creating multiple##secure spaces for particular apps accounts or data.
That s presumably why Blackphone is##combining the launch of an app store with the addition of virtualized secure Spaces#to offer another sandboxed layer to help safeguard data on the device.
Mobile management of data and apps are important areas that enterprise IT groups are still grappling with.
Uber doesn reveal data for China, but it is almost certainly seeing far, far less interest in its services in the country.
and data that is scattered across different cloud services.##This is where Chatgrape comes into its own.
but the files and data you work with every single day.##Meanwhile the company is working with SAT (Research Studios Austria)
This same API will also allow outside developers to integrate their tools and data to the#autocomplete.
A large hardware reseller obviously handles different internal data than say a large furniture manufacturer. We aim to have at least five large enterprise customers by summer 2015
#Mesosphere Announces First Data center OS And $36m In Funding Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project,
what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.
Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS.
This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine,
the operating system sits on top of the data center and enables administrators to treat all of the resources in the data center as a single, virtual entity.
This allows for much simpler management and lets administrators spin servers and software up and down as needs require much more quickly than with current methods.
and allow you to apply that same principle to the entire data center. Because today applications tend to work across multiple servers,
By applying this virtual machine concept across the entire data center, you create a single pool of resources that you can manipulate any way that you like
What more, this ability to virtualize the entire data center dramatically speeds up the time it takes to spin up server clusters from days or weeks to hours or even minutes
Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes, or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,
What more, administrators can take advantage of the API to build applications against the single pool of data center resources available from Mesosphere DCOS.
The new high-tech store Minkoff launched in Manhattan Soho neighborhood aims to capitalize on that kind of big data knowhow
The amount of data gleaned from this kind of real-world tracking has implications not just for the costumer,
While the original idea behind SDN separating the control from the data plane in network switches has turned out to be just one of many architectural approaches that have emerged
The Open vswitch Database Management Protocol. OVSDB was conceived to handle management tasks on network devices not originally included in the Openflow protocol.
#Data From Alibaba E-commerce Sites Is Now Powering A Credit-Scoring Service Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial services has unveiled a new credit-scoring system that uses data from the e-commerce giant sites to gauge userscreditworthiness.
Sesame Credit scoring system which is currently in beta looks at data gleaned from the 300 million registered shoppers
Data used from shopping websites indicate how often a buyer or vendors follow through on transactions and the quality of their interactions with other users.
Ant Financial says that it will supplement data collected from Alibaba sites and Alipay with information from public agencies financial institutions and other merchants.
In a press statement Sesame Credit chief data scientist Yu Wujie said the service is targeted toward users who ay have obtained never bank loans
and other factors into consideration when assessing consumerscreditworthiness. esame Credit says it will protect user privacy by collecting an individual data only after they sign up for the service.
The credit-scoring system is an example of how the user data collected by Alibaba Group e-commerce business can be used to power other verticals.
In addition to financial services Alibaba hoard of data is used by its cloud computing subsidiary logistics and even health tech that organizes patient information for hospitals f
#Datameer Heads To The Cloud With Latest Big data Product Datameer launched a new cloud service called Datameer Professional today that offers customers a Big data solution without the hassle of installing,
Datameer, which launched in 2009, offers big data and analytics running Hadoop for a range of applications.
which uses its own big data tools to analyze sales, started to see a decline in IT interest in the product in 2014.
especially when you consider a Hadoop installation can take up to 12 months to implement. The Datameer project could be faster
what they call data lake or data hub. They were hearing not every company wanted to take that long
and eventually move that sale to IT to build a centralized data hub to bring all of the data together,
Both services are a good fit for the company as they each specialize in Hadoop offerings in the cloud.
and data when it comes to theft, given its early pioneering of phone tracking tech via Find My iphone.
the company is looking into tricks like hiding pixels in images that would prevent them from being copied,
and also send messages via wireless data transfer opened the doors for a new type of expression.
The low profile keys have a top electrification layer that allows them to generate charge from typing friction (aka contact electrification) so the keyboard is able to register individual keystroke data
So it is evidently a more energy-efficient alternative to tracking typing via capacitive data that could be harvested from typing on a touchscreen keyboard.
#Amazon Invests In 150mw Indiana Wind farm To Power Its Data centers Amazon today announced that it is working with the Pattern Energy Group to construct
but the mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) that the full name of what was called previously the owler Ridge IV Wind Projectwill only be used to power Amazon AWS data centers.
we will start to see them transmitting data from some highly unlikely intelligent devices, while tracking everything from road conditions to building health to cars to industrial equipment.
The Internet of things in actuality involves a network of smart sensors collecting data. As the sensors grow ever cheaper,
the more data we can collect to make ever more intelligent decisions (at least in theory). On The Edge Of A major Shift Nils Herzberg, global co-lead for Iot at SAP says the beauty of sensors that they bring real-time data to applications. ustomers run applications for business critical processes,
which could run better with real-time awareness, Herzberg said. He says when sensors provide real-time information,
What he means that the same sensor data may used differently, depending on the industry. t driven by the business case,
Making Use Of The Data But once, we collect the data, we have to do something.
We have to use it to take actions to improve our business processes, or it doesn really help us at all.
Sensors can feed a company data to make highly inefficient processes much more efficient, but SAP Herzberg says the proliferation of that data has become so massive that companies are overwhelmed
and humans can keep up with it. Then software takes over the task of finding correlation,
and software that can begin to make better use of the data the sensors are collecting.
once you have been able to collect the data from a sensors, you can begin to build increasingly complex sets of predictions. ou can start modeling
all of them feeding data to apps and to the cloud. So is that Apple Watch,
a new startup that has created a smart employee badge to help track employee movements and social interactions throughout the day and correlate the data to company goals.
The toothbrush uses Bluetooth and a mobile app to capture data about your tooth brushing habits.
You can even share your toothbrushing data with your dentist or hygienist and an Oral B spokesperson told me me at an event at Mobile World Congress last week,
that you own your toothbrushing data, so youe not even sharing it with the company.
and transmits data to the cloud, where it can warn other drivers coming down the same road about the impending danger.
These sensors will add information to an ever-growing network of connected devices producing mountains of data.
But if you consider what Tim Oeilly once said, he guy with the most data wins,
The self-signed certificate is suspected to be from CNNIC (China Internet Network Information center) which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft
Turning iphones Into Medical Diagnostic Devices Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes and inconsistent data collection.
Users will decide how to share their data and Apple won see it. And to advance its evolution,
and instantly start recording data. Tests designed with Researchkit use the iphone sensors to record data.
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
Since medical data is obviously sensitive, Apple won see anything you put into Researchkit apps and you can give permissions for how data is used by researchers.
The question will be how many developers jump aboard the Researchkit. While it obviously holds potential improvements,
as a way of sending data from one Lifi-equipped device to another. Today the startup is disclosing that it raised £1. 5 million in a new round of funding led by Scottish-based angel group London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP), with additional funding from the Scottish
Putin government has put in place measures for tracking data on websites and restrictions on certain types of content.
This ingests spectrumof real-time data signals from electronic medical records, to staffing systems and outpatient numbers,
and emergency call button data, to external factors gleaned by scraping public data such as weather info, disease seasonality and even local events
which might have an impact on hospital admissions looking for patterns to generate its demand predictions.
feed the machine enough data and the learning algorithms will find the patterns, or at least be able to predict likelihoods with decent accuracy.
which just plug multiple data signals into a dashboard view for hospital staff to interpret themselves.
The problem with the dashboard approach in healthcare operations is staff simply don have time to be triaging all this data themselves.
And while Analyticsmd does offer its own real-time dashboard view too its added layer of data processing helps hospitals achieve greater operational efficiencies by providing a nudge ahead of time.
and then decide what the best data-driven decision, based on that is really hard, says Garg. e started with a real-time dashboard at firstand realized that,
based on analyzing a combination of data signals such as when a patient presses a call button for help,
because the platform provides the data overlap as human staff come and go. But what about the other humans in this equation the patients?
In its current rollouts Garg says is only utilizing data elements that hospitals were already capturing,
if a hospital started asking for additional decisions that maybe required additional data elements to be captured then the team would efinitely want to have a conversation with the patients to make sure they are comfortable with that Newhouse also points out that Analyticsmd makes a point of not capturing personal data such as patientsnames
which have silos of data derive benefit from each other as well. m
#Signal Keeps Your iphone Calls And Texts Safe From Government Spies Don want someone else handing your text messages, pictures, video or phone conversations over to the government?
The Dutch SIM CARD manufacturer Gemalto is just one company among many of the alleged government hacking operations.
Meanwhile, several tech companies have decided to take privacy measures into their own hands after the revelations from Edward Snowden that the NSA was capturing the private data of U s. citizens from several Silicon valley tech giants.
Adding to the frustration of the NSA in its fight to get at your data, Signal code is open source. This means anyone can go to Github
according to Crunchbase data. The 17 deals recorded in 2015 average $23 million each, compared to a $14 million average deal size in 2014.
post-financial crisis, they want more data and more transparency about what theye investing in, and the marketplace platform allows investors to do their own analysis,
detect obstacles and make sense of terabytes of data they collect. This is the golden age of drones,
and capture a lot more data than a DJI-like quadcopter. Jay Bregman, the former CEO of Hailo, is verified developing database of drones,
that will allow people to know where you can and cannot fly a drone. Saving Lives Many of you will have seen the defibrillator drone
I heard not only once people shy away from the idea concerned with the thought of Facebook wningyour data
and a cloud-based database of items to quickly scan and identify items based on their molecular structure.
and big data the financial sector is a relatively new battleground for the two companies. Tencent first financial services product a fund called Licaitong was launched in January 2014
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The apps draw relevant data from a car computer via the OBD port letting you do things like feed the exact mileage from a particular drive into Concur to expense a work trip
but now with data from Automatic, drivers will have exact numbers on the fuel burning while waiting for another fare.
though the few apps that offer real-time data to your phone will require the new model,
#Push For Greater State Surveillance Powers Could Have Chilling Effect On U k. Tech Sector The U k. government is lining up a new piece of legislation to expand the state digital data capture powers.
and volume of captured comms data. The U k. Prime minister has appeared even to suggest that strong encryption should be outlawed.
While that is certainly true for some digital services with a sloppy attitude to security (or with business models that rely on data mining their users), others,
That really will be a*gets popcorn*momenthe Tory prior attempt to expand the state data capture powers,
the Communications Data Bill widely criticized as a nooperscharter on the grounds that it would have required ISPS to retain detailed data on web usage failed to pass through Parliament owing to the lack of support from the Conservative Lib dem coalition partners.
but was a prominent critic of the Communications Data Bill, tells Techcrunch he has concerns about the surveillance powers that the government will be pushing for. el have to see how much theyl try
When they were trying to push the Communications Data Bill, initially, the first version was incredibly broadbrush
and afforded powers to do any data collection. They then admitted, during the process of our parliamentary committee enquiry,
another reason to oppose more expansive state data retention is that it makes the intelligence agenciesjob harder given it increases the noise to signal ration,
if you demand more things you have more data, and if you believe that the problem the intelligence services face at the moment is a shortage of data then it would address the problem.
I think the problem is they don know what to do with all the data that they have.
If you look at the killing of U k. soldier Lee Rigby for example the problem isn that they have no idea.
The problem is they have so much data they couldn prioritize it properly, he argues. o unlike IP ADDRESS matching where there really was a strong case,
I think the word we used was isleadinge also notes that the Joint Committee report on the draft Communications Data bill was hugely critical about the lack of data ministers were able to provide to support assertions that expanding data capture powers for counter-terrorism purposes would save lives.
e need more data but we can tell you whyand where the U k. Parliament Intelligence and security committee should be playing a robust role in holding the government to account in such a sensitive area,
where when the security services take the ability to look at private data, they do it in a way where it goes through a court,
so my personal data is not going to be snooped on and when people do have snooped their data on it only used in a very serious process of tracking down organised crime and terrorism?
he Investigatory Powers Bill is one of a series of initial bills announced in the Queen speech,
so shoring up and expanding state surveillance and data capture powers is evidently front of mind and a clear priority for the new U k. government.
Imagine the power of state surveillance tapping into an expansive Internet of things infrastructure that ceaselessly gathers real-time data on every point of human intersection public
and rivatewhen it comes to surveillance of digital comms data, this same outsourcing modus operandi used with CCTV is being applied by governments to Internet companies with the U k. government now preparing to push one of the most hawkish data retention agendas in the Western world,
and that despite the censure that has been directed at systematic digital dragnets in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
where their user data is then subject to systematic mining by the state as a byproduct of citizensdigital participation,
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