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Mozilla Launches Accounts, An Improved Sync Feature, And A customizable UI To Firefox Aurora
Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser, along with an improved Sync feature and the ability to customize the user interface. All of these things are available to test now in Firefox Aurora. Read More »
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Navy Seeks Real-time Location System for All Hospitals
The Navy Bureau of Medicine in May kicked off a procurement to acquire a Wi-Fi based Real-Time Locations System that will track high-value medical equipment at 19 hospitals and hundreds of medical clinics worldwide.
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Nest Thermostat Acquisition Is Google's Home Invasion
On Monday, Google announced the second-biggest acquisition in its history. The tech giant shelled out $3.2 billion for smart-thermostat manufacturer Nest Labs of Palo Alto, California. But what does Google want with your central heating? And what could this mean for the future of "smart homes"? Read More »
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New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Information
As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives -- including their Social Security numbers -- in a new national database being assembled by two federal agencies.
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New Study: 'Cloud Of Things' Could Make Customer Service Better, Humanity Worse
Experts predict technology will improve daily transactions by 2025, but there are major caveats...
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New Surveillance Whistleblower: The NSA Violates The Constitution
John Napier Tye is speaking out to warn Americans about illegal spying. The former State Department official, who served in the Obama administration from 2011 to 2014, declared Friday that ongoing NSA surveillance abuses are taking place under the auspices of Executive Order 12333, which came into being in 1981, before the era of digital communications, but is being used to collect them promiscuously...
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New To-Do Lists Loom For 'Post-EHR Era'
As the electronic health record becomes "just another app," more and more providers are setting their sights on an array of complex future needs. IDC Health Insights' latest report sees big changes coming for care delivery in 2014 and beyond. Read More »
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Next Stop For Controversial Airport Scanners: Office Buildings?
Last month, the Transportation Security Administration ended its contract with the airport scanner maker Rapiscan, pledging to remove the company's controversial backscatter x-ray machines from the country's airports. Read More »
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NIST Funds Secure Online Healthcare Transactions Pilot
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded $9 million in grants to five collaborative groups, including one for healthcare exchange, to demonstrate how online transactions can be secure and private as part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Read More »
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NIST Hands Off NSTIC To Private Sector
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC, steering group met for the first time Aug. 15 and 16, marking the official formation of the group and a major milestone in NSTIC implementation. Read More »
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No Place To Hide: A Conservative Critique Of A Radical NSA
Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing...
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Noted: Experimenting With Open Access Notes In Medicine
As health information technology continues to evolve, new and creative uses for electronic health records (EHRs) are beginning to develop. One such “potentially disruptive innovation” is the use of EHRs and patient portals to give patients access to the notes doctors prepare on patients after an office visit. Read More »
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NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives
Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »
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NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists
Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »
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NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion In U.S. Technology Sales
International anger over the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance is hurting global sales by American technology companies and setting back U.S. efforts to promote Internet freedom. Read More »
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