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Once your car's connected to the Internet, who guards your privacy?
Once mobile devices are connected to car infotainment systems and cars are connected to the Internet, vehicles will become a rich source of data for manufacturers, marketers, insurance providers and the government. Oh, and they'll be a lucrative target for hackers, too. Unlike mobile device makers that use state-of-the-art technology to secure their devices, the automotive industry has generally been a technology laggard when it comes to privacy. The computer systems in automobiles, like so many other systems, may be built from years-old technology because of the three-to-five-year vehicle development cycle.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Meeting the Exploding Demand for New IT Services
Fueled by the explosion of mobility, the broad acceptance of cloud and tidal volumes of new data sources, the unprecedented demand for new and more efficient IT services is taxing IT managers to the limit. Learn More
Microsoft heads back to the desktop
After failing on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft is hoping it can find redemption back on the desktop. Read More
Beyond FLOPS: The co-evolving world of computer benchmarking
Benchmarks have been evolving along with the hardware they measure, and both are getting more complex. Read More
Why the entry-level iPhone 6 has just 16GB of storage
The eagerly awaited iPhone 6 announced last week offers a larger screen, more processing power and -- in the base model -- the same 16GB of storage as the two-year-old iPhone 5.While this year's preorders are in and the most popular models are out (of stock, that is), even the Mac faithful were left wondering why 16GB is Apple's de facto standard for entry-level smartphones.In 2012, the 16GB version of the iPhone 5 sold for $199 with a standard 2-year contract with a wireless provider. The base model of the new iPhone 6 also sells for $199 with a contract. So what gives?It's not like Apple thinks its customers don't care about more onboard storage capacity. The company also eliminated the 32GB model, which was available in the iPhone 5, and doubled the capacity of the mid-range iPhone 6 to 64GB. That version sells for $299 with a contract, and the top-end model, with 128GB, sells for $399.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
MIT's Cheetah robot is off its leash, running and jumping
Robots with legs should be able to go where wheeled robots cannot – over obstacles and crevices. The problem has been that legged robot have been ungainly and have needed a lot of energy to get around. A team of researchers at MIT may have figured out a way to make a four-legged, cheetah-like robot run and jump more gracefully and efficiently. To get there, they studied animals like dogs and cats and used that biological information to create a new algorithm for bounding. "Our robot is about 20 times more efficient than other quadruped robots," Sangbae Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, told Computerworld. "Our robot is as efficient as a real animal … and it can run much longer because it's efficient."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Integrating Mobility with Unified Access
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Amazon's new Fire tablets offer more features at lower prices
Amazon.com is providing more bang-for-the-buck with four new Fire tablets, with prices starting as low as $99 for a Fire HD with a 6-inch screen. The company also announced a 7-inch Fire tablet for $139, and a refreshed 8.9-inch Fire HDX 8.9, which is priced at $379 for a Wi-Fi version and $479 for an LTE version. Amazon has extended its tablet offerings as it tries to offer a range of devices through which customers can buy more products and services from its online store. Amazon already sells the Fire Phone and the Fire TV streaming media player. For the low prices, the Fire HD tablets have strong hardware features. The tablets have quad-core processors, and front and rear cameras. The 6-inch screen can display images at 252 pixels-per-inch (ppi), while the 7-inch screen shows images at 216 ppi. Amazon also said the Fire HD tablets provide three times the graphics performance than Samsung's entry-level Galaxy Tab 4 tablets, which have ARM's basic Mali graphics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple releases iOS 8, starts serving upgrade downloads
Apple today shipped the free upgrade to iOS 8 for existing iPhone and iPad owners, opening up the download floodgates at 1 p.m. ET, as expected.Computerworld immediately began retrieving iOS 8 and in the initial stages at least -- with a slow broadband connection, the upgrade was forecast to take more than hour -- the download proceeded. As of 1:30 p.m. ET, there were no reports on Apple's iPhone support discussion forum about download problems.The biggest issue seemed to be the size of the upgrade -- many reported that it was in excess of 1GB -- and the enormous free-space requirements, which were 5GB and up. For owners of 16GB iPhones, not to mention those with the even punier 8GB iPhone 5C, that could be a major problem.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
MIT-bred technology would let cars help each other avoid traffic jams
If you get stuck in traffic a lot, your next car may be able to talk to other vehicles and help keep you off jammed roads. MIT researchers used virtual tokens, cellphones and vehicle-to-vehicle wireless LANs to build a system for allocating the limited space available on major thoroughfares. It doesn't require any physical infrastructure, such as tollbooths, so it could be implemented quickly almost anywhere, they said. Instead of using cameras or electronic tollbooths by the roadway to detect cars passing a certain point, the MIT system, called RoadRunner, is based on GPS information from the driver's cellphone in each car. As more cars get connected to the Internet, the system may be able to go into the car itself, according to Jason Gao, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science who developed the system with Professor Li-Shiuan Peh.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
iPhone 6 review roundup: All you need in one place
One iPhone 6 review after another just hit the Web. Don't have time to digest them all? Instead, read Richi's review roundup.Of course, only "friendly" reviewers got early-access to the new shiny, so do enable your reality-distortion filters.In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't agree what they like best. Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. He's Walt Mossberg. Shutup: [Please stop repeating that gag -Ed.]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Samsung flexes enterprise muscles with Tab Active and Knox
Samsung promoted enterprise uses for its upcoming Galaxy Tab Active rugged tablet, its Knox security and management software, and even its Gear VR headset at its recent Super Mobility Week in Las Vegas.The Galaxy Tab Active, first announced at IFA, is a standard Galaxy 8-in. tablet but has some promising add-ons for rugged uses in warehouses and field work. It boasts 10 hours of use from a removable 4450 mAh battery. To get to the battery, a user snaps off the rugged case, then pops off the back cover.Samsung officials claimed it can withstand a 4-foot drop from waist height and is water resistant. The 8-in. display is WXGA LCD. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and has 1.5 GB of RAM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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