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UP & COMING TECHNOLOGY
- TI's contact-less temperature sensor opens up possibilities
First-ever single-chip passive infrared temperature sensor could be used in tablets, handsets, watches, and cameras for applications yet to be imagined. - Art installation blurs boundary between physical and digital (video)
Nervous Structure is a series of installations that create hypnotic displays using elastic or spandex and a projector to illuminate it with computer-generated graphics.
MICROSOFT NEWS
- Microsoft SharePoint 15: A 2012 release target, an app marketplace and more
Microsoft is adding new features to the next versions (Wave 15) of its SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online offerings. Here are early looks at some of those. - Microsoft adds another Facebook tie-in to Bing search
Microsoft is adding another Facebook-linked feature to Bing known as Linked Pages.
GOOGLE NEWS
- Google applauds as Nevada approves rules for driverless cars
The State of Nevada has put a framework in place for testing and licensing self-driving cars, meaning Google is that much closer to being a highway star. - Google is now the top public DNS provider in the world
Google is the number one public DNS service in the world – should you be worried?
PC SECURITY
- Mozilla: Firefox can be hacked via booby-trapped images
For the second time in a week, Mozilla patches a “critical” vulnerability that could be remotely exploitable and can lead to arbitrary code execution. - Cutwail botnet resurrects, launches massive malware campaigns using HTML attachments
Security researchers from M86Security, are contributing the increase in malicious malware campaigns using HTML attachments, to the resurrection of the Cutwail botnet, responsible for spamvertising the …
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Facebook stores fail f-commerce goals by selling not socialising
F-commerce stores are shutting or scaling back their offerings. Have stores grasped how to do f-commerce yet or is there a long way to go before social selling really succeeds as a business model? - Twitter opens ad platform for small businesses — and spammers
Twitter has launched its new ad platform for small businesses but it will need to put good checks and measures in place to stop malware being spread in ‘Promoted Tweets’ and ‘Promote …
GREEN TECHNOLOGY
- Home Depot to sell Schneider residential electric vehicle charger
For now, most electric vehicle owners will need to buy the $799 EVlink Indoor Electric charging station off the retailer’s e-commerce site. - Cree LEDs green up U.S. embassies across Europe
The installations have a dual agenda: save on electricity and promote U.S. green technology innovations.
