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Cyberforensics is a new genre of detective work that presents immense technical challenges.

After a long delay, Sling Media's SlingPlayer Mobile app for iphone and iPod touch has been approved for release in the App Store, albeit with a very high price tag and more restrictions than originally planned. First unveiled in January, the approved app works only on Wi-Fi-not on 3G as planned, suggesting Apple and/or AT&T had issues with the bandwidth used by the app-and will support the SlingBox Pro, Pro-HD, and Solo,.

Rob Griffiths dives into the sizable OS X 10.5.7 update to see how well it works, and what areas of the OS may have been updated, beyond those that Apple covered in its release notes.

mjasay writes 'Mozilla's Asa Dotzler points to some interesting long-term trends in browser market share, noting that 'browser releases aren't having any major impact on the macro trends,' which suggests that a better IE will likely have little impact on its sliding market share. The most intriguing conclusion from the data, however, is that Firefox could surpass IE market share as early as January 2013 if Firefox continues to gain 5 percent every year, even as IE drops 5 percent each year. In the past, microsoft might have fought back by tying IE to other products to block competition, but with the EU keeping a close antitrust eye on Microsoft and the US Obama administration keen to make an example of an antitrust bully, Microsoft may have few good options beyond good old fashioned competition, which doesn't seem to be working very well for the Redmond giant, as the market share data suggests. microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the compan

Trailrunner7 writes 'Threatpost.com reports that security guru Bruce Schneier says not only should the NSA not run cybersecurity for the federal government, no one should. 'Really what I think is it shouldn't be anybody. We do better without a top-down hierarchy. Our economic and political systems work best when there isn't a dictator in charge, when there isn't one organization in charge. My feeling is there shouldn't be one organization in charge. Not only shouldn't it be the NSA, it shouldn't be anybody,' Schneier said.' of this story at Slashdot.

Kristina at Science News writes 'The RNA world hypothesis proposed 40 years ago suggested that life on Earth started not with DNA but with RNA. Now a team of scientists bolsters this hypothesis, having assembled RNA in the lab from a mixture that resembles what was likely the primordial soup. 'Until now,' Science News reports, 'scientists couldn't figure out the chemical reactions that created the earliest RNA molecules.' The new work started the RNA assembly chemistry from a different angle than what earlier work had tried.' of this story at Slashdot.

r0nc0 writes 'My company (a Fortune 15 company) has recently required everyone that accesses the company portal to accept or decline an 'agreement' that governs the use of social networking. It basically states that any discussion of the company or any of the work that you do, whether at the office or at home, must be governed by their rules of social networking. Naturally these rules are that you never say anything bad or negative about the company, nor do you say anything bad or negative about anything. It's presented like a EULA, but if you decline more than 3 times your manager is notified. Naturally I declined it each time until my manager complained to me about all the email he was getting about me not accepting the agreement, so I went ahead and accepted, knowing that anybody who cares would just post anonymously anyway. This is the first time I've run into a forced agreement about social networking, and the agreement is so broad that it can't possibly be enforced. I've tried po

With its new ClariLink family of WAN link controllers, Ecessa gives small and midsized enterprises the load balancing and failover capabilities for network traffic previously unavailable to small and midsized enterprises. The ClariLink devices let IT administrators deploy SIP traffic across multiple WAN or service provider networks, offering redundancy and automatic failover in the event that a VOIP session is interrupted for any reason. If a VOIP session is ended because of a network problem, the call is automatically sent to another link, with little to no interruption. - Ecessa is rolling out a new family of WAN link controllers aimed at improving the performance and scalability of VOIP communications. The ClariLink WAN link controller, announced May 12, balances SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) traffic across multiple WAN links and service provider networks, ensu...

Part of Ensemble(TM) 5000 Series, embedded HCD5220 enables accelerated access to information from distributed sensors via Converged Sensor Network(TM) Architecture. It combines 2 Freescale(TM) 8641D PowerPC processors with dual PMC/XMC mezzanine sites, optimizing balance of I/O and processing per slot. Thermal design supports 1.33 GHz processor in 0.8 in. VXS slot. In addition to 3.125 Gbaud Serial RapidIO switch topology, each PowerPC processor is paired with internal/external GbE interfaces. This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsSearch for suppliers of: Embedded Computers

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