Clearwire and Intel have revised a technology deal

Clearwire and Intel have revised a technology deal that forbade the WiMax service provider from using any other technology, and Clearwire is already talking with equipment vendors about how it might adopt LTE (Long-Term-Evolution) for its Network.

Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference in March that Internet Explorer won't be offered for XP. The reason is that IE 9 is a "Modern browser", and getting the benefits of the hardware acceleration and other performance gains that it will offer requires a "modren OS".
Issue is the adoption of HTML 5, an upcoming repair of the Web's markup language that will add significant new capabilities, including standard ways to implement video, animation, audio and offline storage that are not included in the current HTML standard.
But If IE 9, which will be Microsoft's first browser to fully support HTML 5, isn't available for XP, then those users will be outside of that HTML 5 compatibility sphere.

Hackers develop multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

One year after the black Hat talk Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was snatched by his employer, Security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.
He plans to give the idea, titled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machine",at the Black Hat Las Vegas Conference, held in July 28 and 29.
Jack will express several ways of attacking ATM Machines, including remote and network based attacks. He will also tell a "multi-platform ATM rootkit", and will describe about how Atm industry can protect itself from such attacks. Although ATM does not have enough security, So, Jack's talk will break new ground.

VMware and salesforce building java platform

VMware and Salesforce are developing a cloud computing service called "VMforce designed for hosting Java applications", executives from the two companies.VMware applications will utilize the salesforce global security infrastructure, all of the standard java technologies, such as plain old java objects, java server pages and java servlets.. all supported by Spring

Dutch researchers "family friend' Robot


A new Dutch research project coordinated by Eindhoven University has been launched and developed to integrate a socially assistive robot with smart houses to aid COPD patients at home. COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a general term which include the conditions chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

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