Launched in October 2010, Doximity is a very popular professional network among physicians in the United States. It enables physicians to search a directory of more than 700,000 other American physicians. On top of that, Doximity allows general practitioners to share patient data and it is Health Insurance Portability and…
On Sunday 25th August 2013 China was hit by the “largest ever” cyber-attack on its internet network. As a consequence, all access to .cn websites was blocked for several hours, according to a government-linked agency. In other words, many Chinese websites went temporarily offline. Source (photo): http://www.foxnews.com According to the “China…
The French company AwoX, which is based in Montpellier, is riding a wave of success with the development of the Internet of things. This year, the company has started selling three remote-controlled entertainment tools: StriimSTICK, StriimLINK and StriimLIGHT. The StriimLIGHT lightbulb is able to play music from your smartphone…what a…
Le premier trolleybus sans ligne de contact à Genève est le fruit d’une collaboration entre les ingénieurs d’ABB Sécheron SA, les Transports Publics Genevois (TPG), les services industriels genevois (SIG) ainsi que l’Office de promotion des industries et des technologies (OPI). Inauguré en mai 2013, le projet pilote “TOSA” (Trolleybus Optimisation Système Alimentation) est une initiative daignant promouvoir l’énergie électrique pour les transports publics.
Le projet “TOSA” est conforme au « Masterplan Cleantech » mis en place par le gouvernement suisse. Un masterplan dont l’idée principale est de développer les entreprises clean-tech en rassemblant à la fois les forces des milieux scientifiques, économiques mais aussi administratifs et politiques. Par le terme « cleantech » s’entend les technologies, les processus de fabrication et les services qui concourent à protéger et à préserver les ressources et les systèmes naturels. De ce fait, les domaines de l’environnement et de l’énergie mais aussi des ressources naturelles en font partie intégrante.
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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…
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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Launched in September 2011, “Snapchat”is a very popular photo messaging application available on iDevices and Android phones. The application enables people to share photos, videos, texts or even drawings with each other. At the end of 2012, over one billon photos were shared between users and, more precisely, 20 million…
Lors de l’Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, un concours de jeunes talents qui s’est déroulé le 17 mai 2013 à Phoenix (Arizona), une lycéenne de 18 ans Eesha Khare a fait sensation. Son invention permettra à terme de recharger un Smartphone en 30 secondes seulement… Source : http://www.pardaphash.com/…