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EU court's SAS ruling conflicts with Oracle v Google.

May 11, 2012 by David Smith
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The case has implications beyond SAS and WPS. In Europe, at least, it implies that developers of both proprietary and open-source software have the right to duplicate the functionality and exposed interfaces (in this case, the structure of SAS procedure calls) of a proprietary language provided they don't copy the source code of the implementation itself. [read more]

Big Brother 2.0 – Will Privacy Concerns Stop the Mobile Movement?

April 25, 2012 by Annisa Farese
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The flood gates have opened and mobile innovation is at a point where it seems to change and advance daily. It’s no surprise that even the savviest mobile users are feeling overwhelmed by an infinite variety of privacy settings. The idea that certain media monarchies now have a direct, mobile link to you and your life has been a hot topic of concern lately – but smartphone sales, app downloads, and GPS assisted search numbers continue to rise. Which begs the question… do we really care about privacy? [read more]

CTO Security Report

April 24, 2012 by Bryan Halfpap
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Photo credit: Schuilr

A 15-year-old Austrian boy was discovered to be the culpit behind the web-based attacks on the web presences of over 250 companies. The boy, using attack software, techniques, and anonymization services and programs he found on the internet, mounted a successful campaign in order to win the favor and attention of his hacker peers and garner points on a hacker scoreboard. [read more]

Musings on Watson: Why Healthcare?

April 10, 2012 by Neil Raden
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Watson is a marvelous invention by IBM, but its application to healthcare seems a little misguided. By engaging with one of the premier for-profit health insurance companies, one wonders if the desired outcome is better healthcare or just tighter control over claims costs. [read more]

The Connected Evolution

February 3, 2012 by Maggie Fox
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Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in January provided preview of the new direction of major electronics manufacturers, and how they plan to design devices that not only provide value by leveraging smart capabilities, but also solve problems in an intuitive way. According to the GSMA, 90% of TVs at CES, 70% of automotive devices, 44% of health devices, and 30% of cameras were Internet connected. [read more]

Prepare for the Big-Data Labor Shortfall

January 26, 2012 by Rick Sherman
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Where are all the big-data people? A recent front-page article in the Boston Globe raised this very issue. The article, “Mass. firms see riches, jobs in charting oceans of data”, discussed reports on Big Data by the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MTLC) and McKinsey Global Institute regarding the role Massachusetts plays as a hot bed... [read more]

'Trustworthy Cyberspace': Federal R&D Priorities

January 8, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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In December 2011, the Executive Office of the President’s National Science and Technology Council  released Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program, a set of R&D priorities for U.S. government agencies. The White House released Trustworthy Cyberspace to guide... [read more]

E-commerce Doesn’t Stop for Christmas

December 29, 2011 by Jack Mason
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For the holiday season to date, $35.3 billion has been spent online, marking a 15 percent increase versus the corresponding days last year, according to new figures from comScore released today. [read more]