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iHome's iPL23 is compatible with iPhones 5, 6 and 7 (including Plus models), features premium speakers, a Lightning charging dock, FM radio, and alarm clock in one compact device. This handy radio clock charges Lightning-capable iPhone and iPod devices, while letting you wake or sleep to your favorite songs, podcasts, audio books or FM radio station. Gradual wake/sleep function slowly increases or decreases volume as you drift off, or come to. A USB port allows for simultaneous charging of your iPad or Apple Watch as well. Читать дальше...

Forget PCs and servers: D-Wave Systems is looking into the future with its quantum computer, up to 1,000 times faster than an earlier model.

If you’re worried that your data might end up in the hands of a hacker, one site is offering a free service that can give you a head’s up.

The internet in North Korea is an unsurprisingly small and circumscribed place – there are just 28 TLDs on the entirety of the country’s .kp domain, compared to almost 335 million globally.

Black Friday 2016 is still about 2 months away, but the first ad leaks touting bargains on everything from the latest iPhones to tablets, TVs and PCs could surface by the end of next month. Look for Amazon to once again push the definition of Black Friday, with sales starting at the beginning of November (hey, they've already had Prime Day).

Apple today released Sierra, 2016's edition of the Mac's operating system.

Larry Ellison made a splash this week when he said that Oracle would give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud. Then, the company outlined the pillar of the tech titan's infrastructure offering: beefy, bare-metal servers running in the cloud. 

Summer 2016 was not a good time for data breaches.

First, news broke that the Democratic National Committee was hacked, leading to the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and driving a wedge between Democratic Party members.

Later, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that Russian hackers had illegally accessed its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database, leaking confidential medical information for U.S. athletes, including Simone Biles and Serena Williams. Читать дальше...

Website security and performance vendor CloudFlare has made the newest version of the TLS secure communications protocol available to all of its customers.

Engineers at Stanford University have invented a new technology that would give broadband customers more control over their pipes and, they say, possibly put an end to a stale net neutrality debate in the U.S.

Get ready for a Google hardware-palooza.

The company is set to not only unveil a pair of smartphones during its just-announced Oct. 4 event in San Francisco, but we also may also see some other gear that will surely make it onto the holiday wish list of anyone that’s a fan of Google services.

The story behind the story: Late Monday, the company sent out a press invite and a playful tweet that takes you to a not-so-subtle teaser site. It’s clearly a phone and the URL of madeby.google.com... Читать дальше...

SanDisk today showcased its upcoming 1TB SDXC card prototype at a European trade show for photo and video professionals.

The spin-in culture that developed some major innovations and once shaped a ton of advanced technologies at Cisco isn’t dead but it sure is unrecognizable.

A site that's been warning the public about data breaches might actually be doing more harm than good.

Zuznow is a little-known vendor that offers a mobile development platform. Essentially Zuznow is focused on enabling businesses, even those businesses without technical development resource on staff, to create mobile applications. It’s a busy space, and it's getting busier—large vendors (Salesforce, BMC), smaller vendors (Caspio, Mendix) and standalone mobile application development platforms (Xamarin) are all trying to solve this problem.

Businesses large and small are under the gun to satisfy network access for varied constituencies: not only centralized and remote workers, but outsiders ranging from consumers to partners. Typically, that means supporting multiple access technologies such as a secure virtual private network (VPN) and any number of Wi-Fi guest access devices.

The military knows how to operate in chaotic situations.

Where should resources be deployed? How should isolated platoons be managed? How should field units and central command coordinate activities when communication lines are broken? How can communications be secured? How can systems be made more resilient?  

Many military techniques can be adpated to enhance IoT resiliency.

Lessons from the Art of War

Military communications or “comms" are activities, equipment and tactics the military uses on the battlefield.

When I started focusing on the security market 14 years ago, the SIEM market was burgeoning market populated by vendors such as CA, e-Security, Intellitactics, and NetForensics. 

Tesla Motors is considered one of the most cybersecurity-conscious car manufacturers in the world -- among other things, it has a bug bounty program. But that doesn't mean the software in its cars is free of security flaws.

If you’re in the Wi-Fi network installation business in Europe, you might be about to get extremely busy. The head of the politico-economic union said its member states will be investing dramatically in Wi-Fi connectivity. The reason: to “empower” its subjects.

Jyväskylä, Finland -- The 11th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship was held last week at this picturesque university town in the central Finnish “Lake District.”

If you believe the reviewers on Amazon, you may not find a better sounding pair of earbuds at this price point, which at the current 59% discount is just $11.99. The ErgoFit earbuds from Panasonic are designed to fit comfortably and securely in your ear, isolating outside noise while delivering great sound with a wider frequency range than most comparable buds. The earbuds come in various colors and features a generous 3.6 ft. cord that easily fits through or around your clothes, coats and bags. Читать дальше...

With the release of the iPhone 7, I was hoping to get a bargain on the iPhone 6 Plus. There was nothing in the 6S that appealed to me, and the 6 would be cheaper. So, I checked out the iPhone offerings on Glyde, where I have done business before to my satisfaction. 

Chinese researchers from Keen Security Lab of Tencent announced that they could chain multiple vulnerabilities together which allowed them to remotely hack the Tesla Model S P85 and 75D from as far as 12 miles away.

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday released an overview of the federal government's automated vehicles policy, which includes a checklist for makers on various aspects of the cars they are developing, as well as guidelines to states on evolving a common framework for regulating the new technologies.