When football players hit the field for Nike According to Performance Director Lance Walker, an athlete’s “Zero Step” is a pivotal point that can make or break an athlete’s 40-yard dash time. In the moments before that first step hits the turf, his propulsion and acceleration speed are determined. At that point, it’s all about geometry, Nike said.
Russian Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as primary developer and distributor of the SpyEye bank fraud Trojan, the U.S. Department of Justice said last week. Panin, known as Gribodemon and Harderman, was primary developer of SpyEye, a sophisticated, malicious computer Trojan designed to automate the theft of confidential personal and financial information, including
Windows XP’s disappearance and Windows 8’s march toward some kind of success were both put on hold in January, after a December when XP’s user share plunged and Windows 8’s swelled, a Web analytics company said Saturday. Neither are good signs for Microsoft, which has bet the future on According to Aliso Viejo, California company Net Applications, Windows XP increased its share by a quarter of a percentage point in January, ending the month at 29.2 percent of all desktop and notebook computers worldwide, the first time it had meaningful growth since March 2012.
Refrigerators might hold spam to keep it cold in the meat bin. But in the Internet of Things world, can fridges connected to the Web blast malicious email as part of a botnet? And how about TVs or other smart devices? In the stranger side of the The phrase
The legal fraternity has made it first foray into the use of Bitcoin as payments for services rendered. LegalVision, an Australian legal service provider, is the first to allow its customers to pay for legal services with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a LegalVision installed Bitcoin support on January 21. LegalVision chief executive Lachlan McKnight said he was interested in using the crypto-currency because it fitted with the online firm’s emphasis on efficiency and innovation.
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As they have for the past few years the In what the feds called “Operation Team Player,” special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and officers from Customs and Border Protection worked with the National Football League (NFL) and other sports leagues along with law enforcement agencies to identify illegal shipments imported into the U.S., as well as stores and vendors selling counterfeit trademarked items.
Payments made with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rose 55 percent over last year, reaching a total of 19.5 percent of all transactions processed worldwide in December by Amsterdam’s Adyen. Apple iPads and iPhones were the most used devices for mobile payments, according to Adyen’s tally, with the iPad accounting for 41 percent of mobile transactions during the busy September to December holiday shopping period. The Apple iPhone took the second spot with 31.6 percent of mobile-payment transactions, while Android smartphones stood at 20 percent and Android tablets at just 6.6 percent. Microsoft Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices each accounted for less than 1 percent.
Now that Google has “Selling off Motorola frees Google to focus on new areas of growth and they are focused on quite a few,” said Jeff Kagan, an independent industry analyst. “GoogleX is the part of the company that focuses on the future. Some of the most recent ideas range from the Nest system for home automation to robotics, driverless cars, elevators to space, pharmaceuticals, cancer treatments and other medical and health-related business.”
Samsung Electronics is joining forces with retailer Carphone Warehouse to create 60 dedicated Samsung stores in Europe, hoping that will help keep the growing competition in the Android smartphone market at bay. The stores will be opened in the next three months across the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The 60 stores will be a mixture of new locations and of existing Carphone Warehouse locations that will be converted to sell Samsung products, according to a Carphone Warehouse spokeswoman. About a third of the stores will be in the U.K. making it the largest market, she said. The stores will sell smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables, according to Samsung. With the European economy improving, the company sees an opportunity to increase sales with this push. Also, while consumers knows its smartphones and tablets, the dedicated stores will draw more attention to its laptops and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, Samsung said.
A vision of digital services nationwide in Britain, home of the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, should be a priority as the web approaches its 25th year, an official told her countrymen last week. Baroness Martha Lane Fox urged the government to fulfil Berners-Lee’s vision for the World Wide Web, but has warned that this may be a bumpy year for the government’s digital service (GDS). It is approaching the 25th year since Berners-Lee first created the World Wide Web and Lane Fox told delegates at a digital government event this week that if GDS is successful in transforming services for citizens, this would be a good way to honour the British inventor.
Criminals are once again using Java’s cross-platform design to add Linux and Mac users to their usual Windows target list, Kaspersky Labs researchers have discovered. The malicious Java application recently unearthed by the firm, Once on the target system after hitting Java flaw CVE-2013-2465 (SE 7 Update 21 and earlier), patched last June, the malware sets up its command and control using IRC. According to Kaspersky, one of the targets on the receiving end of a DDoS attack might be an unnamed bulk email service.
If you had any doubts about the popularity of smartphones, new numbers suggest they’ve notched a significant milestone. The global smartphone market topped 1 billion shipments for the first time in 2013, covering about one-seventh of the world’s population, according to research by IDC. Smartphone shipments were up 38.4 percent in 2013 from 725 million units in the previous year, according to data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In 2013, there were 1.82 billion mobile phones shipped, which includes smartphones, an increase of 4.8 percent from 1.73 billion in 2012. Samsung
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Facebook will celebrate its 10th birthday on Tuesday, an occasion likely to spur an outpouring of reflection on its past and speculation about its future. Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook” from his dorm room at Harvard University on February 4, 2004. The site was conceived as a way to connect students, and let them build an online identity for themselves. It has since expanded to cover a large swath of the planet, with more than 1.2 billion people—one-seventh of the world’s population—using its site on a monthly basis, according to the company’s own
In an effort to wiggle free of its pre-existing search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is fast-tracking an effort to develop search technology, according to a report. What Curveball and Fast Break are isn't known. But what's been much more obvious is how Yahoo has chafed under the terms of its contract with Microsoft.
Satya Nadella has been offered the Microsoft CEO job and is currently negotiating a contract with the company’s board, according to The Microsoft’s board is scheduled to meet early next week to ratify the contract, at which point an official announcement will follow, the Journal
Over the past several months security researchers have found serious vulnerabilities in many mobile advertising libraries that could be exploited to abuse the permissions of Android apps or to execute unauthorized code on users’ devices. The risks resulting from those vulnerabilities would be significantly lower if those libraries would use HTTPS, security researchers said. Researchers from security firm FireEye
BlackBerry may still have a presence in the enterprise, but among consumers it's a non-starter. At least there's nowhere to go but up.
Being an Amazon says it is considering bumping up the price for Prime, blaming the price hike on rising transportation costs and higher usage from Prime members.