Smart watches

Smartwatches have still yet to really engage the mainstream audiences. In fact, no one is currently shipping a smartwatch that has really interested anyone other than the technology enthusiast (re: geek).
The Strata is clearly a complete thought in terms of design, compared to the review we did of the developer kit. This sport watch is made to be water resistant and offers a much sleeker design, without changing the actual layout of the watch. The buttons are all essentially in the same place, and it even uses the same charging pins on the bottom that double as JTAG debug pins. The watch face itself is a metallic ink that is reflective in the sun. The screen is always on, and if the developer watch was any indicator, has great battery life despite that decision.

Students create cheap anemia detection system using a cellphone

low cost screening device connected to a cell phone could save hundreds of lives in developing countries from anemia, a deadly blood disorder.

The device, named HemoGlobe, was developed by biomedical engineering students and it’s designed to

Socialbot experiment collects 250GB of data from clueless Facebook users

, Facebook. Every day its hundreds of millions of users post updates, upload pictures, and tag to their hearts’ content while paying nary a mind to the site’s privacy settings. And as we’ve seen numerous times before, the data being shared is precisely the type bad guys need to compromise Facebook (and other) accounts.
In an experiment at the University of British Columbia, Canadian researchers showed just how easy it is to harvest data on the world’s biggest social network. The team set up a legion of 102 socialbots — autonomous digital servants

Microsoft points finger at Waledac dev: he worked at a firewall and antivirus company

 Before Microsoft and its collaborators took it down last year, the Waledac botnet was one of the most prolific spam machines on the internet. Although fewer than 100,000 computers had been infected (some estimates have the figure as low as 41,000), the network was pumping out 1.5 billion spam messages per

Android smartphones implicated in new botnet

     we have been accustomed to the uncomfortable fact that botnets lurk in the more unseemly corners of the intertubes. These networks of interconnected computers are used to carry out DDoS attacks and spend spam without the owner’s knowledge. What may come as a surprise, is that security researchers have now pointed the finger at Android smartphones as a new component of botnets. Is it finally time to look suspiciously at that phone in your hand?

This report comes by way of Microsoft researcher Terry Zink, who posits that Android phones are being used to send spam from Yahoo! mail servers. There is no way currently to know who is

Sun Power: Solar Chargers That Light Up Your Gadgets

Gadgets like smartphones and gaming devices help us stay connected and entertained on the go, but keeping their batteries charged can be challenging when you aren’t near an electrical outlet.
Portable solar chargers are one solution for keeping your gadgets juiced, especially if you plan on spending an extended amount of time in the great outdoors. They’ll also help you reduce your carbon footprint by using natural energy rather than electricity.

This week, I tested the Solio Bolt and Powertraveller Powermonkey Explorer, two solar chargers that can recharge portable electronics such as cellphones, handheld GPS devices and e-book readers by drawing energy from the sun.
The $70 Bolt is easy to set up, but doesn’t hold as much power as the Powermonkey, and it has some design flaws. The Powermonkey is more expensive at $89, and has more parts to it, but it’s worth it since it has a larger battery and works even when the sky is slightly cloudy.

swiftkey3 touchscreen

Typing on touchscreen smartphones with small virtual keyboards can be challenging. But various keyboard apps are available that try to make the task easier. For Android users, Swype was an early entrant in this category — it allows you to type words by dragging your finger from letter to letter in one continuous motion. It sounds crazy, but it works. That said, if you prefer the more traditional method of pecking at individual keys, there are options for you, too.

Data Mining

What is Data Mining?

 

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, is the computer-assisted process of digging through and analyzing enormous sets of data and then extracting the meaning of the data. Data mining tools predict behaviors and future trends, allowing businesses to make proactive, knowledge-driven decisions. Data mining tools can answer business questions that traditionally were too time consuming to resolve. They scour databases for hidden

Microsoft Launches New Surface Tablets With Windows 8

In a watershed moment for Microsoft, the company announced today that it’s launching its own brand of tablets to go head to head with the Apple iPad and the myriad of Android tablets.
Unveiled at an event in Los Angeles hosted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the new Windows 8-based Microsoft Surface tablets are designed for work and play and will come in two models: A Windows 8 RT version and a Windows 8 Pro model.

The consumer-focused Windows 8 RT Surface is the first PC with a VaporMg magnesium case and measures only 0.37

Data warehouse conepts

Data Warehousing Technology: Focus on Clinical Warehousing

This is the summary of a talk I gave as part of a workshop on Clinical Data Warehousing, at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall Symposium at Orlando, Florida, Nov 8th, 1998.
Introduction

• A Data Warehouse is a collection of data that reflects all aspects of an organization's operations
• A Data Mart deals with a single aspect of the data.