Top 10 tips for avoiding a costly security breach - 0 views
Hackers Could Remotely Manipulate Medical Devices Used By Diabetics - 1 views
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Insulin pumps are vulnerable to determined hackers who could also remotely mess up the readings of blood-sugar monitors, Jerome Radcliffe, a security researcher who has diabetes revealed at the Black Hat computer security conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. In other words, a hacker could cause a diabetic patient to receive either too much or too little insulin.
Protecting data on copiers - SC Magazine US - 1 views
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Recent news reports on copier security have brought to the forefront how information stored on a copier's hard drive may be accessible to would-be identity thieves and others. While this vulnerability is eye-opening to many, this concern has been important to manufacturers for quite some time. Just as you would install a virus scan on your laptop or PC, you need data safeguards for multifunction printers (MFPs).
A must to avoid: Worst practices in enterprise data governance - 1 views
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More and more companies are recognizing that they're accumulating ever-increasing amounts of data but not necessarily gaining business insights from it. The missing link is the transformation of data into information that is comprehensive, consistent, correct and current. That isn't a problem technology can solve for you
Where Is My Magical NFC Phone Wallet? | TechCrunch - 1 views
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According to Gartner Group report, there are 141.1 million mobile payment-ready devices in circulation and that the vast portion of the world's population (mostly in Asia) is actively using NFC and other techniques to pay for items via mobile. However, the US is lagging wildly in this regard, with nearly no activity in the space at present even though two-thirds of young people would be happy to wave their phones in front of a candy machine to grab a bite. Sadly, two-thirds of older folks would balk at the opportunity.
Using Facebook and Facial Recognition to ID Random People - Digits - WSJ - 1 views
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"Using Facebook and Facial Recognition to ID Random People : A professor at Carnegie Mellon conducted a study recently and found that about one third of people he took snapshots of on campus could be identified using Facebook and a facial-recognition technology recently bought by Google. Not only that, but 27% of those folks had information on their Facebook profiles - like birth date or birthplace - that enabled him to correctly predict the first five digits of their Social Security numbers (you know, the part of your Social Security number that's supposed to be totally secret)."
Don't Look Now: Classic Disruption Is Taking Place In Advertising | DigitalNext: A Blog... - 0 views
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Clayton Christensen first identified the concept of the disruptive innovation in the Innovator's Dilemma. The basic idea is this: a new technology slowly undermines an existing, dominant technology, by starting out cheaper and "worse," then slowly improving until it is a full replacement for the dominant one, but with newer, more flexible capabilities, and usually a lower cost basis. Classic examples of disruptive technologies include the PC (which disrupted mainframes and minicomputers) and desktop publishing (which disrupted the print industry).
MediaPost Publications Mobile Payments Growth Slower Than Expected 07/22/2011 - 0 views
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In advanced markets, the firm believes the promise of mobile payments driven by NFC technology is at least four years away from reaching mass adoption. "The biggest hurdle is the need to change user behavior by convincing consumers to pay with mobile phones instead of cash and cards," said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner.
MediaPost Publications While You're Here: Crafting the 'Following Salesman' 07/22/2011 - 0 views
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If done artfully and well, mobile media and technology is capable of reversing a century-old model of selling -- where salespeople went to people's homes or waited for interested consumers to come to them. In some ways, mobile replaces the traveling and in-store salesmen with the newer (albeit slightly creepy) model of the "following salesman."
Blogging Innovation » Innovation Champions Must Beat Devil's Advocates - 0 views
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In an organization, it's human nature to resist change and to stick with the status quo that's often more comfortable and safe. Some of your teammates in your company may be devil's advocates who claim they want what's best for the business while they oppose initiatives for Innovation. As a leader and innovator-in-chief of your company, it is critical to drive the culture of Innovation throughout the organization even in the face of opposition.
Facial recognition targets problem casino gamblers - 0 views
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In May, OLG began rolling out the new facial recognition system designed to keep tabs on the province's estimated 300,000 "problem gamblers." Cameras were mounted at casino entrances to digitally scan the faces of all visitors. Problem gamblers who voluntarily signed up for the selfexclusion list can be stopped by security staff from playing at the casino. But regular casino visitors will also be digitally scanned, although their facial photos are almost immediately discarded if their name is not on the list.
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