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NEC goes ultra-thin with 0.3mm-thick batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- NEC, which has been working on what is called "organic radical battery" (ORB) technology for some years, has announced its latest ORB breakthrough, the 0.3mm thick ORB. According to Geek.co ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Childhood self-control predicts adult health and wealth

A long-term study has found that children who scored lower on measures of self-control as young as age 3 were more likely to have health problems, substance dependence, financial troubles and a criminal record by the time ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Attacking the edges of secure Internet traffic

(AP) -- Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Digital 'wallets' proliferate at cellphone show

Cash, coins and credit cards are so Twentieth Century. At least, that's the opinion of the electronics manufacturers, phone companies, banks and credit card issuers that expect cellphones to be the main way consumers pay ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Smartphones wallets going mainstream: survey

Using smartphones or tablets as digital "wallets" will be common within a decade, largely replacing cash and credit cards, according to a Pew Research survey released on Tuesday.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Visa, MasterCard scramble after massive data breach

Credit card giants Visa and MasterCard were scrambling on Friday to thwart cyber crooks who looted a massive trove of precious account data, evidently from a payment processor in New York.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

New surveillance camera can search 36 million faces for matches in one second

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new surveillance camera by Hitachi Kokusai Electric can look at footage that contains an image of someone, either still or video, and then search other video or still images on file for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Cryptographic attack highlights the importance of bug-free software

A padlocked icon in a web-browser or a URL starting with https provides communication security over the Internet. The icon or URL indicates OpenSSL, a cryptography toolkit implementing the SSL protocol, or a similar system ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Google users warned of threat to smartphone wallets

Users of Google smartphone wallets were being warned on Friday that there is a way to crack pass codes intended to thwart thieves from going on illicit shopping sprees.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

US, British officials victims of Stratfor hack: press

Email addresses and passwords belonging to British, US and NATO officials were posted online following the hacking of a US intelligence analysis firm over Christmas, the Guardian daily reported Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Citibank turns rewards into 'social currency'

Credit card rewards are the new social currency. Citibank customers can now use Facebook to pool their rewards points online.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment (Update)

Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, said Thursday that it will start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

'Anonymous' hackers target US security think tank

Hackers with the loose-knit movement "Anonymous" claimed on Sunday to have stolen a raft of emails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor, promising it was just the start of a weeklong, ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 96

Unauthorized access hits Sony PlayStation accounts

Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Former US official to head cybersecurity at Sony

Japanese electronics giant Sony, which suffered a huge data breach this year, named a former top US Department of Homeland Security official on Tuesday to lead its cybersecurity efforts.

Technology / Business

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1