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Intel Links Many Screens Into a Giant, Wireless Display
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Intel Links Many Screens Into a Giant, Wireless Display

The Display as a Service (DaaS) wireless technology enables a single screen image to be shown on a wall of displays all working as parts of a large display. 

NASA Issues Grand Challenge, Calls for Public, Scientific Help in Tracking Threatening Asteroids
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NASA Issues Grand Challenge, Calls for Public, Scientific Help in Tracking Threatening Asteroids

NASA announced two programs that call on organizations around the world to help spot, track, and possibly alter the direction of asteroids headed for Earth. 

Nasa Explores Network to Sustain Large Data Dumps, Space Travel
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Nasa Explores Network to Sustain Large Data Dumps, Space Travel

NASA is studying what technology will be needed after 2022 in order to support future space communication and navigation.

Looking Forward to a Future Internet
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Looking Forward to a Future Internet

The future of the Internet was in doubt heading into December and the World Conference on International Telecommunications.  Neither those who want to control the...

Toyota Testing Smart Cars That Talk to Each Other and to the Road
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Toyota Testing Smart Cars That Talk to Each Other and to the Road

Toyota is testing smart cars that talk to each other and to the roads on the 700 MHz band with the goal of reducing traffic accidents.

Prototype System Goes After Dns-Based Botnets
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Prototype System Goes After Dns-Based Botnets

Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed Pleiades, a prototype system that can better detect Domain Name...

DARPA Seeks Holy Grail: Quantum-Based Data Security System
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DARPA Seeks Holy Grail: Quantum-Based Data Security System

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently launched the Quiness program, which aims to demonstrate that quantum communications can generate secure...

Ieee Fellow: Don't Expect Nfc Payments to Have a Major Mobile Impact
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Ieee Fellow: Don't Expect Nfc Payments to Have a Major Mobile Impact

Although many companies are hoping that mobile payments enabled by near-field communications technology will catch on among consumers, the technology's impact will...

Cisco, Juniper Among New Software-Defined Networking Research Center's Founders
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Cisco, Juniper Among New Software-Defined Networking Research Center's Founders

A new research center is developing a comprehensive intellectual framework for software-defined networking.  

Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud
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Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud

The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering approving the Simple Cloud Identity Management scheme, which manages user identity in cloud-based applications...

Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud
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Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud

MIT researchers are studying how to build a cloud computing infrastructure that recognizes and eliminates a cyberattack under normal operating procedures.  

Microsoft Researchers Say Anonymized Data Isn't So Anonymous
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Microsoft Researchers Say Anonymized Data Isn't So Anonymous

Data routinely gathered in Web logs, such as IP address, cookies, operating systems, browser type, and user-agent strings can threaten online privacy because they...

Five Major Changes Facing the Internet in 2012
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Five Major Changes Facing the Internet in 2012

The Internet will face several milestones this year as it undergoes a major technical upgrade, moving from IPv4 to IPv6. This transition could result in major...

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Gartner: 10 Key It Trends For 2012

If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will affect your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization...

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Faq on Son of Stuxnet

What is Duqu? Duqu (pronounced dyu kyu) is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...

Software Upgrades Could Produce Self-Tuning Wireless Access Points, Researchers Say
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Software Upgrades Could Produce Self-Tuning Wireless Access Points, Researchers Say

University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers have developed Airshark, software that enables wireless access points to automatically detect radio-frequency interference...

Linux Foundation Releases Specification to Ease Licensing Headaches
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Linux Foundation Releases Specification to Ease Licensing Headaches

The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazaar have  released the Software Package Data Exchange, a data exchange specification that tracks license information in a standardized...

Microsoft Researchers Find Spammers By Graphing Social Networks
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Microsoft Researchers Find Spammers By Graphing Social Networks

Microsoft researchers are studying how to differentiate spammer email accounts from legitimate users' accounts, and have found that attacker accounts do not have...

At&t Researchers Call For Smartphone Apps That Won't Suck Your Battery Dry
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At&t Researchers Call For Smartphone Apps That Won't Suck Your Battery Dry

AT&T researchers are calling on developers to build more energy-aware apps to conserve battery life in smartphones. 

Vint Cerf on the Internet and Out-of-This-World Communications
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Vint Cerf on the Internet and Out-of-This-World Communications

Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking...
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