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U.S. warns gas pipeline companies of cyberattacks
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Natural gas pipeline operators in the United States have reportedly been the target of sophisticated phishing attacks since last year, and the Department of Homeland Security has been helping firms deal with incidents since March. “DHS’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has been working since March 2012...
Cybercriminals Hack Into Factory
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The Homeland Security Department disclosed a strange incident in which cybercriminals took over a New Jersey factory's building management software in 2012 thanks to a security flaw. In one of the strangest smart grid hacker attacks ever, cybercriminals managed to penetrate the thermostats of a state government facility and...
At peak of Apple patent war, Samsung names a new CEO
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The new chairman comes from the semiconductor side, the old from mobile phones New Samsung CEO Kwon. Photo: techweb.com.cn FORTUNE — With an Apple (AAPL) patent trial set to begin July 30 and no settlement in sight, Samsung replaced its chairman Thursday. According to Reuters, the new CEO is Kwon Oh-hyun,...
GE's industrial internet is really (mostly) about energy efficiency
gigaom.com
GE put out a substantial report this morning on what it’s calling the opportunities for the industrial internet, which will be followed up by an event on the same subject in San Francisco later this week. As my colleague Barb Darrow wrote, it’s not a big shocker, and the move...
Goodbye, Exynos: Benchmark Points To Dual-Core Processor For Verizon’s Galaxy S III
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Samsung confirmed well in advance of the Galaxy S III’s official announcement that their new flagship Android handset would sport the company’s new Exynos 4 Quad chipset, but it seems even clearer now that we Stateside phone geeks may have to live without it. Droid-Life reported over the weekend that...
What Happens To Nokia If Windows Phone Dies? (NOK, MSFT)
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Nokia chose Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system over its Symbian platform for its newest smartphones. However, the company’s board chairman Risto Siilasmaa recently said that the company has a backup plan, just in case Windows Phone doesn’t work out. What is it? Forbes briefly suggested the backup plan could be Android, and we agree,...
★ The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design
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Dave Wiskus, in a thoughtful piece for Macworld, “Apple and the Future of Design”: It’s curious how Apple’s hardware and software have taken such divergent paths. Looking at iOS hardware and software separately, one might think they were produced by different companies. The drop-shadows and textures of iOS stand in...
'Middle Eastern' Hackers Attempt To Hijack Functions Of US Energy Companies
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A series of recent attacks aimed at hijacking U.S. industrial systems and energy networks is making the Department of Homeland Security nervous. David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report in The New York Times today that two senior U.S. officials believe the attacks likely originate from the Middle East. Unlike Chinese-based...
Cybercriminals Hack Into Factory
www.fastcompany.com
The Homeland Security Department disclosed a strange incident in which cybercriminals took over a New Jersey factory's building management software in 2012 thanks to a security flaw. In one of the strangest smart grid hacker attacks ever, cybercriminals managed to penetrate the thermostats of a state government facility and...
HP VP of Industrial Design: Apple doesn't own silver
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Hewlett-Packard's industrial design chief dismisses a claim that the company's newest notebook looks like Apple's MacBook Air, arguing that form follows function. [Read more]...
Why Britain needs an innovation economy
www.guardian.co.uk
Radical thinking is needed if UK industry is to seize the opportunities provided by technological changeSomething is stirring in the boardrooms of British industry. You heard it at Davos. Peter Mandelson is onto it, and last week Vince Cable joined in. The scale of the structural economic crisis facing the...
Apple Fulfills Patent with the iMac's New Fusion Drive
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Three years ago we called for an ultrathin iMac and today Apple delivered it. The new thinner iMac design was mainly accomplished by eliminating the optical drive as they did with their MacBook Air and other MacBooks over time. Yet to be fair to Apple's industrial design team lead by...
Watch Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield explain the iPhone 5′s industrial design and hardware engineering
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Apple has just posted its Introducing iPhone 5 video on its YouTube channel, letting you watch it directly rather than on Apple’s site. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s worth a watch. There are a host of interesting details about the way that the iPhone 5 was designed and...
Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives
www.computerworld.com
Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT)....
Google's Sergey Brin Calls Smartphones 'Emasculating'
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We get that smartphones can be inconvenient and annoying. But "emasculating"? That's what Google cofounder Sergey Brin said Wednesday in a presentation at TED, a technology conference in Long Beach, Calif., CNET reports. He was making the case for Google Glass, Google's Internet-connected headset, which can snap photos, record video,...
China Launching National OS
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The Chinese government is partnering with Canonical to produce a new "national operating system" based on open-source favorite Ubuntu. China's government is building its own operating system in hopes of weaning hundreds of millions of users off Microsoft products... and they're using Ubuntu. Canonical, the world's largest commercial Ubuntu...
EA closes PopCap studio in Dublin
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Electronic Arts is closing its in-house developer PopCap’s Dublin office. The shut down of the Dublin office results in 96 people losing their jobs. PopCap associate producer JP Vaughn confirmed the closure in a tweet this morning. Last month, PopCap let go 50 employees across its North American branches and...
A New Apple Magnet Design Points to iPhone, Remote Control
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An exciting new coded magnetic fastening component design from Apple has surfaced in Canada's Industrial Designs Database this morning. The database states that it was publically published on March 22, 2012. The new design is listed under classifications that cover such consumer products as a remote control ......
You're having trouble finding a new iPhone 5 due to its design
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The president of Foxconn, the company that builds Apple’s mobile devices, told reporters in China on Wednesday that the iPhone 5 is so hard to put together that his normally speedy, cutting-edge factories cannot build the devices at the rate expected of them. And it’s not the first time someone...
DHS Report: Energy Sector Now a Bigger Target for Cyber Attackers
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The energy sector is reporting an enormous increase in the number of attempted cyber attacks in 2013, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security. Some of the new attempted attacks have included the industrial control systems of gas compression stations across the Midwest. There were 111...
For Apple, Microsoft, and Google, mobile convergence means executive consolidation
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Android has left Andy Rubin’s purview and entered Sundar Pichai’s, Google’s senior VP of Chrome and apps. The Web has been echoing with questions of what this means for Google and its products, with rumors of Rubin joining the Glass team and Pichai moving to combine Chrome OS and...
TC@MWC: Hands-On With The HTC One X
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Ah yes, the One X. It’s been shrouded by rumors and half-truths for so long now that it’s quite a thrill to get one in my hands. I won’t go into the Sense 4.0 bits too much since I explored my feelings in my One S hands-on, but suffice it...
Steve Jobs' Opportunity: Apple Products are for Humans
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Shared by Bud I think Louis hits the nail on the head here. Apple's industrial design is just superior. Google, at heart, is an infrastructure play. They're making progress in the last user interface mile, but it's not their forte by a long shot. At 10 a.m., Apple CEO Steve...
Meet Members Of Apple's Elite Industrial Design Team (AAPL)
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Christopher Stringer, a longtime member of Apple's industrial design team, had one of the most memorable moments of the ongoing patent trial when he revealed that most Apple products are initially designed by a small group of just 15 or 16 employees sitting around a kitchen table. While Stringer didn't...
Top 10 Windows 8 Features #7: Client-side Hyper-V
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Server-side virtualization is a modern-day fact of life. Today's data centers pool their processing, storage and even network resources to create macrocosmic virtual-machine entities that transcend the boundaries of hardware. We call that "the cloud." With Windows 8, Microsoft extends its server-class hypervisor platform to the desktop. And no,...
Inside TechShop: Where Entrepreneurs Get Their Hands Dirty And Build Million Dollar Companies
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When Jack Dorsey came up with the idea for his payment startup, Square, he offered his partner, James McKelvey a pretty sweet deal. McKelvey, who helped Dorsey come up with Square, could build the prototype credit card reader for Dorsey and get co-founder credit in the company, but he...
Malware infects US power facilities through USB drives
www.pcworld.com
Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). In one case, the industrial control system at a...
GE's WattStation electric car charging app to use PayPal exclusively
gigaom.com
GE’s long awaited WattStation electric vehicle charging stations will rely on PayPal as the exclusive payment provider, the two companies told GigaOM. PayPal will be embedded in the WattStation Connect mobile app, available now for iOS and Android, and will also soon power an RFID payment card. In April, GE launched...
Hands-On With The Surprisingly Solid, QWERTY Keyboard-Packing LG Mach
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Sprint finally joined the phone announcement fray earlier this morning and added a handful of new devices to its official roster. While LG’s Optimus G may garner all the love, the newly-revealed LG Mach deserves its share of attention, and I got a bit of hands-on time to do just...
Inside the Brooklyn Nets' Barclays Center, the most high-tech stadium in sports
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The most high-tech stadium in sports. That's the pitch line for Brooklyn's new Barclays Center, new home of the Brooklyn Nets. It took nine years and some 35 court battles to build the billion-dollar stadium, which is wrapped in a sci-fi grid of tarnished metal plates that vary in...
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