Harmonic and Discretix Integration Brings Secure Video Streaming to Mobile Devices

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How to Properly Secure Your Mac and iOS Devices

Sometimes, securing your Mac with a password is not enough to keep it from getting compromised. There are a multitude of things you can do to keeep your Mac safe from prying eyes. Read on and we'll show you how to protect both your iOS devices and your Mac.

Secure Your Devices DigitallyTurning on Account Password Protection on your Mac

On the Mac, you can enable a password for your user account by opening Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups, and selecting your name from the list of users.

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Frontier Silicon's DAB 5.0 Adds Closer Integration with Advanced Bluetooth and Mobile Devices

Compuware's Mobile Center of ExcellenceGoing mobile is on every business' list, but most organizations have no idea how to handle the complexity it creates between what the business needs and IT's role in making it work. Compuware has developed mobile solutions since 2000. Take two minutes to understand how we integrate the needs of the business and IT to design and implement successful mobile solutions.

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Two New Devices Remove Blood Clots More Safely from Stroke Victims

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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XtremeMac Debuts New Devices

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Monday Recap: iPhone 5 NFC Chip, Apple Stock Soars, Eight Possibly Banned Samsung Devices

Well, much like the end of last week, it's another great day to be Apple. The fallout from the Samsung trial verdict is still reaping rewards for Cupertino, even as things get all the more complicated. Sure, it's going to be a while before Samsung will ever cough up any money for damages, but the win gave Apple shares a significant boost today. 

Possible NFC Chip in 'Leaked' iPhone 5 Photos

We've seen images of purported iPhone 5 guts before, but the pics acquired by Apple Insider today are a little bit different. Close to the earpiece, there appears to be a near field communication (NFC) chip. The subject of significantly easier payment systems -- like waving your iPhone 5 over the coffee shop's card reader -- came up during WWDC 12. We already know Apple is planning to keep us organized with Passbook in iOS 6; an NFC chip seems like a valid possibility. Especially since, you know, Apple bought all those NFC patents this year. 

Apple Inc. Shares Rally Amid Samsung Victory

After a $1.05 billion award in damages, Apple must be feeling pretty hot right now. But the outcome of the epic Apple v. Samsung trial did more than just enforce the company's patents. Today, Apple Inc. stock rose 2-percent to $676.56, according to Reuters; the all-time high is $680.87/share. Other U.S. stocks didn't perform too favorably in the same time frame, but then again, they didn't just receive the brand boost from a big win like Apple.

Apple Names Eight Samsung Devices For Banishment

Are you tired of hearing about the Samsung v. Apple trial, yet? Well, don't get too comfortable. Appeals will likely stretch on for quite some time, and today, Apple has filed a notice naming eight different Samsung products it believes should receive banishment from the U.S. market. The filing (via The Verge) lists the Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 (AT&T, Skyrocket, T-Mobile), Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge, and Galaxy Prevail. Of course, these assertions are purely on the part of Apple; Judge Koh would have to believe "irreparable harm" will befall Apple if the Samsung products don't get the axe.

German Consumer Group Threatens Facebook with Legal Action

A German consumer watchdog group is threatening Facebook with legal action if the social network giant doesn't make significant changes to how user data is shared with third parties. The Federation of Consumer Organizations believes Facebook is violating privacy laws by giving out user information via the new Facebook App Center. The organization has given Facebook an ultimatum: comply with privacy regulations by September 4, or face legal action. 

 

 

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Kids Place App Makes Securing Android-based Devices Easy for Parents

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RedPhone App with Predictive Dialer Capability Now Open Source on Android Devices

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Nationwide Study Finds Smartphones, Tablets are now Mainstream Devices

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The Human Factor: Usability of Medical Devices Crucial

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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Ten Percent of Mobile Devices are Powered by Ice Cream Sandwich OS, Says Google

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Mozilla Gets Ready to Launch Firefox OS for Mobile Devices

- Alert) in Italy, Telefónica in Brazil, and Telenor in Norway are all on board, and in the U.S., Firefox OS has support from number-three mobile operator Sprint (News

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Sigma Unveils Media Processor for Smart Media Devices

- Alert), said, "The SMP8672 provides the level of performance that OEMs need for building today's 3D-enabled media devices and IPTV hybrid systems. Featuring a high performance CPU, deep L2 cache, and powerful 3D accelerator, the SMP8672 significantly boosts HTML5 and JavaScript benchmarks that reflect the expected user experience with a growing list of OTT applications. Furthermore, with its small footprint and low power profile, the SMP8672 can be designed into the most aggressively sized packages while still delivering full performance."

The recently introduced software development kit, or SDK, from Sigma is also compatible with the SMP8672 product series. Rapid time-to-market porting of Hybrid STB middleware is possible using the perceptive novel porting layer, SAPI or Simple API introduced in the Sigma SDK. Sigma is expected to make the SMP8672 available by the middle of July, this year.

An assortment of reference deployments for OTT applications like Netflix and VUDU is possible with the latest SDK. Deployments are also possible with proprietary application frameworks for developing Webkit-HTML5 applications or Adobe (News - Alert) Air applications, thereby enhancing developer efficiency. A custom-designed high-end media jukebox experience is possible with the fixed-price XBMC middleware, which is completely compatible with the SMP8672, in collaboration with supplementary OTT plug-ins. Latest 3D user interface capabilities and upcoming applications are also supported by the SMP8672 with WebGL.

Sigma Designs, Inc. is a major provider of connected media platforms across the globe. The important semiconductor technologies, which act as the cornerstone for a majority of IPTV set-top boxes, connected media players, residential gateways and home control systems across the world, are designed and built by Sigma Designs.  

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Absinthe 2.0 Jailbreak Now Available for iOS 5.1.1 Devices

The hackers have been teasing us for weeks, but today have finally made good on a new jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1, coinciding with Hack in the Box conference taking place today in Amsterdam.

The Chronic-Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team (collectively known as the

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iSirona Helps UC Irvine Link Medical Devices, Accelerate Delivery of Patient Data to Researchers

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Arcturus Releases System Solutions for Networked Audio Devices

Six Things Hospitals Need to Know About Supporting the Adoption of Smartphones Pagers have been an essential part of healthcare communications for a long time due to their ability to provide reliable communications at a low cost. When pagers emerged on the healthcare scene, they fundamentally changed the way doctors, nurses, and administrators could be notified that... DOWNLOAD NOW

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Nokia Lumia 900 Beats iPhone, Android Devices for Outdoor Viewing

Despite the popularity of the iPhone, viewing its otherwise stellar display outdoors can often be a challenge, particularly in bright sunlight. Nokia has taken advantage of this weakness to market its new Lumia 900 Windows Phone handset, and now independent research appears to back up those claims.

DisplayMate Technologies Corporation has published the results of a new Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out, which pits nine popular smartphones and tablets against each other to see which one performs best in the great outdoors.



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How to Reset the Language on Your Apple Devices

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So, you accidentally change the default language on your Apple device, and now you're having trouble setting it back to default? Fortunately, all of Apple's devices have a handy option for reverting back to the default language of the device. Read on and we'll show you how to do so for a variety of devices, including the click wheel iPod, the Mac, and the iPhone.

Reset Language on a Click Wheel iPod

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Young People, Right or Wrong, Rely on Web and Mobile Devices for Healthcare Info

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I’m probably showing my age but when I wanted information I was uncomfortable asking my parents about, especially health-related, I went to my friends, preferably in some dark, hidden place.

But more and more young people today are using smartphones to keep track of their health, according to a story by Milt Freudenheim. According to a website called the Young Invincibles, 39 percent of young people ages 18 to 29 own a smartphone.

Freudenheim reports in his story that young adults are, of course, much more likely than older people to have a smartphone and to use it to look for health information, as found out by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which surveys technology trends.  And what are these young adults looking up?

The three hottest topics searched for on Yahoo Mobile in January were, you guessed it, early pregnancy, herpes and HIV, as stated by comScore, an online research firm, according to Freudenheim.

The most popular symptom searches on PCs? Gastroenteritis, heart attacks, gout and shingles, Yahoo said – appropriate for the older people who tend to use computer keyboards to look up health information.

A survey done by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation all the way back in 2001 found that two out of three young people at that time used the Internet for health information, and four out of ten said they believed what they found on the Web, and acted on it.

Young adults aren’t just using mobile devices to track whether nausea and fatigue are early signs of pregnancy, they’re also  downloading apps to help manage their eating, drinking and exercise, just like older adults, Freudenheim says, referring to a survey by Everyday Health, an online company with health, diet and exercise Web sites.

Geoff McCleary, group director for mobile innovation at Digitas Health, told Freudenheim that some health care companies were even “noticing that more people were using a mobile device to visit their Web sites.”

So what are we to make of all this? As most of us have found, not everything on the Web is true. Are young people being led astray by trusting what they find? A recent study found that a third of young adults believe “the Internet is as vital to the human race as air, food, and water.” So is it dangerous that they’re getting their health information on the Web? Hard to say. The only thing we know for sure is that most kids, since time began, look for information every place but from their parents!

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