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California may outlaw 3-D printed guns

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:48:24 +0000

Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.

Silicon Valley tech incubator hosts Norwegian royals

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:32:29 +0000

Norway's Crown Prince Haakon and Princess Mette-Marit tried touchless gesturing systems and other technologies developed by Norwegian startups at a tech incubator in Palo Alto on Wednesday afternoon .

Microsoft releases fix-it for Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:03:12 +0000

Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website.

Researchers find hundreds of insecure building control systems

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 01:37:28 +0000

Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation.

X1 desktop search tool now indexes SharePoint, cloud email

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:56:51 +0000

X1 has released the biggest upgrade of its desktop search tool in four years, adding the ability to query SharePoint sites and tap webmail accounts.

Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:24 +0000

Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps Coordinate and Chrome OS devices.

San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:01:24 +0000

San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.

Facebook to design an open source switch

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:57:14 +0000

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

New boot firmware a step toward 64-bit Windows RT

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:54:49 +0000

A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT.

More support for Windows RT, this time from Nvidia

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:41:16 +0000

Nvidia will stay on board with making Tegra ARM-based processors for Windows RT tablets despite sluggish early sales of the devices, making the same commitment that Qualcomm has made, an Nvidia executive said

VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:33:52 +0000

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.

Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:33:17 +0000

Testing company Ixia launches high-volume DDoS tests against F5 firewalls.

Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:05:32 +0000

The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:57:36 +0000

Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data analysis after his FiveThirtyEight blog accurately predicted 2012 presidential election results in all 50 states.

EMC lays off more than 1,000 as restructuring continues

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:27:59 +0000

As part of its ongoing restructuring, EMC today announced its latest round of layoffs, which are expected to include 1,004 positions.