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New alliance aims to unify malware fight
News IEEE's Industry Connections Security Group aims to formalize sharing of malware data among security players, but an analyst says its focus may be too narrow.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Malware, Ovum, Security, Sophos Plc., Trend Micro Inc., antivirus, principal analyst
Printer makers mum on new security standard
News New security standards for devices such as printers, copiers and multifunction systems have emerged, but details on hardware compliance are scant.
Tags: Storage, Standard, Security, Device, Risk, Singapore, Access Control, Standards, Environment, e-mail
Will Intel and USB make fiber optics mainstream?
News Chipmaker hopes its Light Peak project will bring fiber optic speeds to ordinary computer users, and USB could be logical path to get there.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Connector, Fiber-optics, Fiber, Video, Storage, USB, Cable, USB 2.0
Intel to host smart-grid standards confab
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will hold its first smart-grid standards meeting bringing together people from the power, IT and communications industries in June.
Tags: Green IT, Intel Corp., Standards, Grid, IEEE Standard, electricity grid, network, industry, information technology, solar energy
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
Chink in encryption armor discovered
News An underlying flaw in the OpenSSH encryption protocol has been revealed by academics.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, OpenSSH, SSH, IT Professional, Encryption, Information Security, Flaw, Server, Attacker, RFC
IEEE pact to foster development of patent pools
News Technical standards developer IEEE is collaborating with Via Licensing to encourage intellectual-property holders to form patent pools.
Tags: Patents, Patent Pool, RFID, IP, IEEE Standard, intellectual property, business development, News.com, blog, collaboration
Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation
News Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers approves a specification that gives support for bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps.
Tags: Peripherals, Standards, Network standards/protocols, Apple Inc., Mobile, Specification, Storage, USB, multimedia, industry
IBM shrinks SRAM cell for future chip generation
News The new static random access memory cell could be used in chips based on a 22nm manufacturing process, according to IBM.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, IBM Corp., SRAM, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cell, Semiconductor, Chip, STMicroelectronics, San Francisco
Researchers cut costs of quantum cryptography
News A method to lower costs and improve the security of quantum cryptography has been developed.
Tags: Security, Cost control, NIST, Quantum Cryptography, Cryptography, theory, researcher, blog, technique, IEEE
Researchers build 'flying' micro-robot
News The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
Tags: Hardware, Ontario, Micro-robot, magnetic field, Environment, laser, robot, researcher, University of Waterloo, camera
802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved
News After seven years, the new, faster standard for wireless networking finally makes it past the draft stage.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Wireless, wireless networking, IEEE 802.11n, Draft-N, WLAN, Wi-Fi, blog, Mobile/Wireless
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by Web users, according to Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Tags: Web sites, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Semantic Web, data mining, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, photograph, desktop, built-In
HP ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl Module
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Adaptec DuoConnect
Reviews A great way of adding the latest high-speed interfaces to your PC or Mac.
