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From a recent article in Healthcare Global. Studies suggest that 30-50 percent of patients are likely to give up treatments early.  Microsoft Research has developed an innovative, hand-held medical device called Anatonme to help patients understand their issue and complete their treatment plan more often. We’ve been doing research and development into private, controlled social …

Saw this item on Gigaom. George Colony, the chairman and CEO of Forrester Research, re-ignited a minor firestorm recently, with a presentation at the LeWeb conference in which he argued that the web is dead, and being replaced by the app economy — with mobile and smartphone apps that leverage the cloud or other services rather than …

My colleague, Dr. Joel Isaacson talks about the top 10 mistakes made by Linux developers. It’s a great article and great read from one of the top embedded Linux programmers in the world. The Little Engine That Could Copyright 2004 Joel Isaacson. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. I  try to …

The distribution of video over multicast-broadcast networks and content storage at by users with Windows PCs and PVRs has created a huge threat surface for digital content. Typical to flawed security countermeasures, HDCP and AACS exacerbate and enlarge the threat surface rather than enhance revenues and reduce risk. In this article we will show that …

I recently got a new notebook (a Lenovo Thinkpad X-Series) and it’s great (my old Acer Travelmate dual core is still chugging along and refuses to die although the screen is beginning to fade – so the time had come to update personal technology). The first thing I noticed was that it comes with an …

A customer case study  - DLP helped diamonds.com be more secure and more competitive. We designed and implemented a large scale IT infrastructure modernization project that was tasked with improving availability, scalability and security of the online diamond trading networks at diamonds.com and diamonds.net. Network DLP appliances were deployed in the US and in EMEA …

A customer case study – Digital content protection for VOD on a TCP unicast network One of our most interesting projects recently was a digital content protection and secure content distribution software development projects  in the field of IPTV and video on demand. We were called in at a critical stage in project delivery to …

Did you ever have a feeling that your IT integrator was treating you like a couple of guys selling you a Persian rug?  ”Take it now – it’s so beautfiful, just perfect for your living room, a steal  for only $10,000 and it’s on sale” and when you ask if it will last, they tell …

A risk assessment of a business always starts with data collection. The end objective is identifying and then implementing a corrective action plan that will improve data security in a cost-effective way, that is the right fit for the business. The question in any risk assessment is how do you get from point A (current …

I think in the security space, we spend too much time on the business justification and functional part of security (reducing risk, detection data breach violations, complying with HIPAA,  writing secure Web 2.0 applications, securing cloud services, security information management etc…). I think we’re ignoring the emotional content of security and I don’t necessarily mean …