Archives : March 2011

Cyber espionage: the risks are rising

published on 2011/03/21 by Stewart Baines

Enterprises are not taking the threat of cyber espionage seriously enough and many have not taken adequate steps to prevent an attack, according to a new study from Ovum, Protecting against cyber espionage....

Cyber espionage: the risks are rising

Printing in the cloud

published on 2011/03/17 by Anthony Plewes

For the long time, printing was a local affair. The machine that you printed your documents on may not have been situated right next to your PC, but it was probably in the office somewhere on the LAN. A revolution is coming, though; cloud-based printing services promise to let you print documents anywhere in the world, via the Internet. ...

Printing in the cloud

Far from elementary, my dear Watson

published on 2011/03/16 by Stewart Baines

Watson, IBM's latest supercomputer project designed to showcase its hardware and software smarts, won a competition against two human competitors while playing the game show Jeopardy in February. The machine, which interprets natural speech, processes questions against a huge database of information to produce a probability of a correct answer. The machine constantly refines its understanding of the various categories within Jeopardy using feedback on which answers were correct and which were not....

Far from elementary, my dear Watson

Hacking the future

published on 2011/03/11 by Stewart Baines

Microsoft's Kinect, initially designed purely as an add-on for its Xbox 360 games console, is fast becoming a platform for a variety of software developers' 'hacks'. Now, the company is publishing a Software Development Kit for academics to use the device in their research-and it promises to revitalise everything from robotics through to advanced computer interface design....

Hacking the future

Interview about Security

published on 2011/03/08 by Virginie Tran

I have recently interviewed Marcel van Wort, Senior Consultant in sales and marketing at Orange Business Services in the Netherlands, about security......

Interview about Security