Battle begins in business-software square-off
A battle between two of the world's biggest makers of business software hinges on the value of a trove of millions of stolen customer-support documents.
Business
Nov 2, 2010
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Virginia Tech computer scientist, student design award winning software to combat hacking
One of the serious threats to a user's computer is a software program that might cause unwanted keystroke sequences to occur in order to hack someone's identity. This form of an attack is increasing, infecting enterprise ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 1, 2010
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Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles
In scientific publishing, how much reuse of text is too much? Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and collaborators have shown that a computer-based text-searching tool is capable of unearthing ...
Other
Oct 25, 2010
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Preventing crashes before they happen
A new median on busy Brigham Young University Parkway in Orem limits the number of places where drivers can turn left.
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2010
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'Fabric' would tighten the weave of online security
(PhysOrg.com) -- As we become increasingly dependent on computers to manage our lives and businesses, our money and privacy become less and less secure. But now, Cornell researchers offer a way to build security into computer ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 1, 2010
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Multicore may not be so scary: Linux will keep up with addition of more processing units
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. To keep improving chips’ performance, manufacturers have turned to adding more "cores," or processing units, to each chip. In principle, a chip with two cores can run twice as ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2010
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Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup
Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated new Twitter-based ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 28, 2010
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Looking for loopholes in microchip security
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to making sure our information is secure, sometimes researchers have to think like hackers. This is true of Avishai Wool, a professor at Tel Aviv University. Along with Ph.D. student Yossi Oren, ...
Google Releases DIY Android App Inventor (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has announced a new software development program that lets anyone develop an application for Android devices; it’s called the App Inventor for Android. Google says the software is intended to allow ...
Scientists Develop World's Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks
(PhysOrg.com) -- As social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube and Twitter increasingly make it possible to access appropriate information within their networks, a whole host of new applications become possible. For individuals, ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 29, 2010
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