Monthly Archives: December 2013

AT&T Selling Its Connecticut Wireline Business To Frontier For $2 Billion – Forbes

AT&T Selling Its Connecticut Wireline Business To Frontier For $2 Billion Forbes Frontier will receive approximately 415,000 data, 900,000 voice and 180,000 video residential connections of AT&T in Connecticut, as well as AT&T’s local business… See on http://www.forbes.com

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Top 15 Kazakh Foods To Try (At Least Once) – Expat Contest

Top 15 Kazakh Foods To Try (At Least Once) by Ersatz Expat – Expat Contests at Expats Blog (Please vote for the EE entry in the 2013 Expat Blog Awards by leaving a comment. See on http://www.expatsblog.com

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Uber upholds capitalism, (possibly) learns downside of price gouging

The ride-sharing firm Uber takes great pride in hewing rigorously to libertarian, let-the-market-decide business principles. It’s unapologetically in love with supply-and-demand, or “surge,” pricing . See on http://www.latimes.com

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The Right Stuff: Breaking the PageSpeed Barrier with Bootstrap

Staring with Twitter Bootstrap and mod_pagespeed, how hard is it to get a perfect PageSpeed Insights score? Well…there is only one way to find out! Let’s begin by generating a PageSpeed score from the off the shelf Bootstrap example. This

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Improving the security of cloud apps accessed by mobile devices

IBM inventors have patented a technique that can enable businesses to improve cloud security and support secure transactions by preventing mobile devices from accessing software code that has been maliciously or inadvertently modified after it was… See on phys.org

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IBM wins cloud security patent 1 day after getting hit by privacy …

Big Blue’s newly received U.S. Patent #8,341,747 covers a “method to provide a secure virtual machine launcher” for mobile devices running on corporate networks. The technology checks if an app has been tampered with … See on siliconangle.com

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Discover Financial Services joins the FIDO Alliance | BiometricUpdate.com

Discover Financial Services has joined the FIDO Alliance and has been appointed to the group’s board of directors. See on http://www.biometricupdate.com

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Global Healthcare Biometrics Market Report 2019 – M2M Magazine

Global Healthcare Biometrics Market Report 2019M2M MagazineSecurity is a vital concern in the healthcare sector when it comes to safeguarding confidential medical data, records and patients’ privacy. See on http://www.machinetomachinemagazine.com

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It’s time to revisit biometrics for patient ID, security

Last week in this space, I wrote about the importance of a master patient index or other form of reliable patient identifier as key to making health information exchange work. See on http://www.fiercehealthit.com

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BluStor Briefcase Ditches Passwords for Biometric Security – TechnologyTell

TechnologyTellBluStor Briefcase Ditches Passwords for Biometric SecurityTechnologyTellThe BluStor system implements both hardware and software to keep devices and identities secure. See on http://www.technologytell.com

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