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New Wi-Fi spec approved

News The most significant feature of the 802.11i standard is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a strong encryption standard supporting 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit keys, said Robin Ritch, Intel's director of security industry marketing.

28 June 2004, 14:30

Vista to hit security markets

News However, the BitLocker disk encryption feature and tools to manage devices such as USB keys will work only for some, he said in an interview. New security features in Windows Vista will largely eliminate the need to run separate antispyware or...

8 May 2006, 8:56

IBM tool helps the blind watch YouTube

News The multimedia browsing accessibility tool from IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory will provide predefined shortcut keys to control multimedia on any given Web site. IBM has made a tool for Web browsers that will help the blind and visually impaired...

13 March 2007, 9:48

Camera phones to get search tech

News We keep trying to simulate that with 12 keys on the phone," said Lauren Bigelow, chief marketing officer at Mobot, a mobile visual search company. By early next year, cartons of milk sold by a European dairy manufacturer will have images of CD art...

23 November 2005, 9:54

Antispam spec hits road to becoming standard

News The specification calls for email domain owners to create a pair of public and private cryptographic keys. An antispam technology that focuses on identifying forged email addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco Systems, Yahoo and partners.

12 July 2005, 9:58

Photos: In tune with the robot guitar

News Housed entirely in the body of the instrument, the Performer is programmed with 336 preset tunings, and can accommodate 96 programmable tunings and sort them into one of four tuning libraries (open tunings and keys, chords, modals and dissonant...

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27 November 2007, 9:29

Motorola unveils Bluetooth sunglasses, not iTunes phone

News Rokr: a family of music phones that offers dedicated music keys, music player interface, extensive memory and long battery life. Motorola announced a new range of wireless products on Monday, ranging from a BlackBerry-like keyboard phone to a pair...

26 July 2005, 9:01

Stronger Wi-Fi security spec nearing approval

News The most significant feature is Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a strong encryption standard supporting 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit keys, said Robin Ritch, Intel's director of security industry marketing.

24 June 2004, 8:00

Seagate thinks small with portable storage

News USB keys have -- to some degree -- acclimatised the public to carrying around large files. Seagate wants to lighten the load for customers who need all their data with them -- but not necessarily their computer.

5 January 2007, 10:39

SanDisk brings flash hard drives to laptops

News SanDisk got the bulk of its expertise in these drives when it acquired Msystems, an Israeli outfit that was an early pioneer in USB flash keys. SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in laptops with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin...

4 January 2007, 9:13

Perspective: Goodbye Apple security?

News While Microsoft's vulnerabilities might let intruders into the castle, Apple is giving them the keys to the kingdom and rolling out the welcome mat. The initial reviews were very favourable. Mac lovers -- arguably the eclectic hippies of the...

4 May 2006, 8:44

IBM hard wires security into processors

News Millions of laptops already contain a chip called a Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption keys, passwords and digital certificates. Researchers at IBM have come up with a way to hard wire encryption...

10 April 2006, 9:36

IBM's rent-a-supercomputer comes to Europe

News When it comes to data transfer, IBM provides hardware encryption keys, and the data is sent through an IPSec virtual private network, though the company is also considering software encryption. IBM has opened its first supercomputer-for-rent...

13 May 2004, 16:40

Toshiba makes entangled photon breakthrough

News Combining this with statistical techniques, it's possible to send encryption keys to a remote location and to be sure they haven't been intercepted. Researchers at Cambridge University and Toshiba have announced a new quantum device that produces...

12 January 2006, 9:42

Security breaches drive customers away

News The way many UK businesses handle IT security is the equivalent of leaving a brand new Ferrari unlocked with the keys in the ignition," said Seagrove. Companies whose IT networks suffer a security breach risk losing a large slice of revenue as...

5 May 2004, 16:45