Acer Takes on Apple With Its High-Res Iconia Tab A700 Android Tablet
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Jam-packed 10.1-inch model has more memory, and a lower price, than Apple's third-generation iPad[...]
Continue ReadingClosing the academia-startup gap
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The high-tech industry — heck, industry in general — would be better served if academic researchers did more to bring the fruits of their labor to market faster. Or at all. That’s an old argument brought up anew by Matt Welsh, a software engineer at Google who, in a recent�blog on the topic,�asserted that universities should act as VCs to bring the best of their projects to market.
Welsh said academics spend their careers working on prototypes that never see the light of day. “I sure never built anything real until I moved to Google, after nearly ten years of college and grad school, and seven years as a faculty member,” he wrote. That, in his view, is a huge wa[...]
Continue ReadingWelsh said academics spend their careers working on prototypes that never see the light of day. “I sure never built anything real until I moved to Google, after nearly ten years of college and grad school, and seven years as a faculty member,” he wrote. That, in his view, is a huge wa[...]
Microsoft Scrambles as It Patches 26 Bugs, Warns Users of Active Attacks
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Microsoft on Tuesday patched 26 vulnerabilities, including one in Internet Explorer (IE) that's already being exploited. The company also warned customers of a new zero-day attack and quashed yet another instance of a bug that the Duqu intelligence-gathering Trojan leveraged.
The software maker also ditched one security update at the last minute and substituted another in its place, probably because the second was more serious.
Of Tuesday's seven security updates, three were rated "critical," Microsoft's top-most threat ranking, while the other four were marked "important," the next-most-serious label.
The 26 vulnerabilities -- one more than Microsoft last week told users to expect -- includ[...]
Continue ReadingThe software maker also ditched one security update at the last minute and substituted another in its place, probably because the second was more serious.
Of Tuesday's seven security updates, three were rated "critical," Microsoft's top-most threat ranking, while the other four were marked "important," the next-most-serious label.
The 26 vulnerabilities -- one more than Microsoft last week told users to expect -- includ[...]
Oracle Employee Named in Singapore Sex Corruption Case
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A sales manager with Oracle's Singapore subsidiary allegedly exchanged sexual favors with a former public official in order to obtain business, according to court charges released on Tuesday.
The former director of Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau, Ng Boon Gay, was charged with corruptly obtaining "sexual gratification" from Cecilia Sue Siew Nang, twice as an employee with Oracle in December, and two times before when she was employed with Hitachi Data Systems.
The sexual favors were made so that Ng would help "further the business interest" of the companies, the court documents said, without elaborating.
Oracle declined to comment on the charges, or on whether Sue is still employed at t[...]
Continue ReadingThe former director of Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau, Ng Boon Gay, was charged with corruptly obtaining "sexual gratification" from Cecilia Sue Siew Nang, twice as an employee with Oracle in December, and two times before when she was employed with Hitachi Data Systems.
The sexual favors were made so that Ng would help "further the business interest" of the companies, the court documents said, without elaborating.
Oracle declined to comment on the charges, or on whether Sue is still employed at t[...]
U.S. Congressmen Back Microsoft Before ITC
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An import ban against the Xbox 360 console could threaten high-paying U.S. jobs, and continued economic growth in the U.S., as the device is one of three[...]
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