Général / Technologie

Cisco specializes his company in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things should represent more than 2 billion connected objects by 2017 and profits amounting to around 14,000 billion dollars. A growing market, that the company Cisco doesn’t want to ignore by creating « Cisco IoT. »
sibylle2Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, wishes to participate in the development of the « Internet of Things ». Indeed, the company wants to put the odds on his side to win market share in this sector which has a bright future in the world.
The growing trend of communicating objects and possible uses of these new technologies demonstrate the potential of this technology business sector. With its new entity dedicated to the Internet of Things named: IoT Cisco, Cisco demonstrates the company’s strategic commitment to growth and reflects the skills of the manufacturer.
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24/07/2013
E-actualité / innovation

3D printer used to save lives

Despite all this talk about the plastic guns that can be created by a 3D printer, this incredible technology can also accomplish extraordinary achievements in medicine. In fact, a tiny airway splint was created by a 3D printer and saved a three-month-old baby’s life.
Kaiba

Source : http://www.larazon.es

Kaiba was born with a rare respiratory condition, affecting about 1 of 2.200 babies, which caused his airways to collapse and the loss of the ability to breathe on his own.  Despite the fact that he was intubated, he needed to be resuscitated on a daily basis. According to the mother, “quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hospital alive« .

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23/07/2013
Général

La gouvernance de l'Internet des objets

IdO est une technologie à long terme et le développement du marché basé sur la connexion des objets du quotidien à l'Internet. Connecté objets échange, agréger et traiter des informations à leur environnement physique de fournir des services à valeur ajoutée aux utilisateurs finaux, des particuliers aux entreprises à la…

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22/07/2013
Cybercriminalité

Cyber-attack on a Lithuanian news portal

During the 2013 Eurovision song contest, the Lithuanian websiteDelfi.lt revealed rigged voting from Lithuania giving extra votes to Russia. Obviously it is not cricket and not a good omen for Lithuania which will take over the EU presidency soon…cedric

Source (photo): http://www.ledauphine.com

The revelation of such news had relative impacts on the Internet in Lithuania.
Indeed, a threatening email was sent to editors of the DELFI website jeopardising them if they did not remove the article dealing with the vote-rigging scandal of the Eurovision song contest. However, the editors decided not to budge. As a consequence, DELFI was subjected to a « distributed denial of service » (DDOS) attack, which means a great deal of bogus requests made the web pages and other services which are hosted on the targeted servers not available to the rest of the world.
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20/07/2013
Droit des TIC / Général

L’employeur est-il responsable des actes commis par son salarié sur internet?

Dans un arrêt du 13 mars 2006, la cour d’appel d’Aix en Provence a retenu la responsabilité de l’employeur du fait de l’activité de l’un de ses salariés sur internet.
Le salarié, employé d’une grande société de télécommunication, avait développé et mis en ligne, depuis son lieu de travail et grâce aux outils mis à sa disposition par son employeur, un site internet « particulièrement virulent à l’égard de la société d’autoroute Escota ».
A la découverte de ce site, la société Escota a engagé une procédure judiciaire à l’encontre du salarié, de son employeur et de l’hébergeur du site. (suite…)

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19/07/2013
innovation

Between the real and virtual worlds

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation of interface, which can accurately detect the users’ finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touch screen, like a system, using objects in the real word

Sans titre1Source: fujitsu.com

This new interface is called FMA1127 – a touch sensor controller that converts capacitance generated between the human body and a conductive touch pad to digital data without any analog signal processing. Touch sensor technology compares reference and sensor input impedances to detect touch – all in the digital domain.
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18/07/2013
Cybercriminalité

Le développement de la Cybercriminalité en Afrique

L’explosion des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication a imposé un nouvel ordre économique mondial ; du comportement classique qui consistait à faire du business entre partenaires identifiés et bien connus, on est passé à un modèle où l’on n’est pas nécessairement amené à connaître l’identité d’une personne (morale ou…

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17/07/2013