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Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo Among the devices on show was this Quanta smartbook prototype (pictured above and below) which runs the Google Android OS. Different hardware form factors were also on show - including a prototype that... [20 Nov 2009]
Usability Study of Windows Vista's Firewall
White Paper The goal of this paper is to address the lack of a complete and validated prototype of improved Vista's firewall interface. By providing a high-fidelity prototype that could be evaluated against Vista's... [12 Nov 2009]
Revealing Hidden Context: Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
White Paper The paper investigated changes to those mental models and their understanding of the firewall's settings after working with both the VF basic interface and the prototype. The prototype was designed to... [12 Nov 2009]
An Interval Decision Diagram Based Firewall
White Paper This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to predicate logic, then implementing a prototype which is used in an empirical evaluation. This paper explores the use of Interval Decision Diagrams (IDDs) as... [12 Nov 2009]
An MTIDD Based Firewall: Using Decision Diagrams for Packet Filtering
White Paper This is done by first relating the packet filtering problem to predicate logic, then implementing a prototype which is used in an empirical evaluation. This paper explores the use of Multi-Terminal Interval Decision... [11 Nov 2009]
Challenges in Supporting End-User Privacy and Security Management With Social Navigation
White Paper The paper has developed two prototype systems to explore how social navigation can help users manage their privacy and security. Social navigation is a promising approach for supporting privacy and security management. [11 Nov 2009]
Crossing the Valley of Death
White Paper Manufacturers, on the other hand, would prefer to see a manufacturing prototype, fully working with materials specified. Death Valley in California is the desert that finished off many of the early pioneers heading for... [26 Oct 2009]
Software Self-Healing Using Collaborative Application Communities
White Paper This paper explores the concept of an application community and determines its feasibility through analytical modeling and a prototype implementation focusing on software faults and vulnerabilities. Software monocultures... [09 Oct 2009]
A Decentralized VPN Service Over Generalized Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper Through the development and operation of a prototype system the paper implemented, it found that the proposed architecture makes the VPN service applicable to each instance of Generalized MANETs, and that the VPN service... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo This prototype medical device was developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, part of the University of Pisa in Italy. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
News The Ribbit team recently showed off their prototype widget, which lets Wave users quickly set up a conference room inside a "wave" message on the service. It's becoming clear that Google Wave, which is slowly emerging... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo This datacentre is also testing a prototype of another cooling system called Side Car. Well, not exactly. This is one half of IBM's Green Innovations Datacentre in Southbury, Connecticut, where Big Blue's internal IT... [22 Sep 2009]
CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks
White Paper Although programmable forwarding devices are available, it is difficult to use them to prototype these DCN designs, especially when self-defined headers are introduced. Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has... [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: Medical tech of the future, from robo-pills to cyber-surgeons
Photo Another prototype developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna on show at the Hunterian is this swimming camera capsule, which is also designed to be used in the stomach. This is the legged camera pill, a robotic... [15 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News While the demonstration used a prototype handset from Texas Instruments, Krishnamurti says VMware is working closely with handset makers now, but says the initiative may be two or three years from becoming mainstream. [03 Sep 2009]
