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Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo It has a probe which locates a vein in the arm and a vacuum syringe which then taps the vein and draws up the blood. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic prototype developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, part of... [15 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
News Oracle isn't letting the EU investigation stand in the way of its plans for the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Larry Ellison, the software giant's chief executive, is joining Sun's server chief, John Fowler, to show off some new Sun... [15 Sep 2009]
US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News On one hand, regulators are expected to probe whether advertisers will be harmed by the loss of an outlet for their ad dollars, as well as whether Google has less incentive to compete for searchers now that there's only... [14 Sep 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal to go under the EU's microscope
News ZDNet UK has more on the EC's planned probe into the Oracle-Sun deal here. On Thursday, the European Commission said it will take a closer look at Oracle's planned $7.4bn purchase of Sun Microsystems. [04 Sep 2009]
Was £26bn IT savings claim sexed up?
News Claims that £26.5bn has been slashed from public spending under the Gershon programme to cut Whitehall costs have been called into doubt by a parliamentary report. The Gershon Review into government efficiency, published in 2003,... [29 Jul 2009]
Ensemble of One-Class Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection System
White Paper Empirical results show an improvement in detection accuracy for all classes of network traffic; Normal, Probe, DoS, U2R and R2L. To achieve high accuracy while lowering false alarm rates are major challenges in designing... [20 Jun 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment Carter has cash up his sleeve for research: £120m for the first three years for a Digital Economy Programme, which includes the funding for three (previously announced) research hubs that will probe the societal benefits... [19 Jun 2009]
A Geometric Approach to Improving Active Packet Loss Measurement
White Paper While active probe tools are commonly used to measure packet loss on end-to-end paths, there has been little analysis of the accuracy of these tools or their impact on the network. Their tests show that loss... [29 May 2009]
Biometric scanners to delve inside your brain
News Scanners that probe brain activity and heart rate are among the next generation of biometric security sensors being developed by the EU. As part of an EU-backed trial, volunteers were sat in front of a camera and... [12 May 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The government has announced £36m in funding for a trio of research centres that will probe the societal benefits and pitfalls of emerging digital technologies such as Twitter. The universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and... [29 Apr 2009]
Optimizing the Performance of Handoff Management in Wireless LANs
White Paper This MAC-layer-based approach consists of minimizing the total number of scanned channels during handoff, and reducing the probe-waiting time for each examined channel. As the radio range of Access Point (AP) in a... [01 Apr 2009]
Techout Partners With rPath and Amazon to Scale Its Monitoring Solution
White Paper Techout.com also uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store individual, detailed probe results as .xml files and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to support its alerting functionality. Techout.com, an internet... [01 Apr 2009]
Spam Spikes: A Real Risk to Your Business
White Paper See how changes in spam duration, frequency and intensity among others reveal the spammers' attempts to probe for weaknesses. A close look at MessageLabs own data - derived from processing 1.5 billion emails a week -... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: Tech cracks the Arctic frontier
Photo Here holes are drilled into the Arctic ice to insert a custom made SeaCat probe, which measures temperature, depth and salinity up to 300 metres below the surface. Explorers are relying on cutting edge technology to map... [16 Mar 2009]
Monitoring Your Network
White Paper Covered tools include: WS_Ping_ProPack, XploiterStat Lite, Windows Event Viewer, Sophos Anti-Virus for NT, Sophos Anti-Virus ADMIN Tool, Software Firewalls, eTrust Intrusion Detection (Sessionwall), 3Com Network Supervisor, GFI LANguard... [16 Mar 2009]
