Survey: Many Americans Don’t Understand Cloud Computing
A survey from Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix, found that many Americans aren’t familiar with cloud computing or are unaware that they are using it, Citix announced August 28. Kim DeCarlis, vice president of corporate marketing at Citrix, said the survey showed that there is a wide gap between the perceptions and realities of cloud [...]
Citing its “objectionable and crude” nature, Apple has for the third time in a month rejected a mobile application where users get notified whenever a U.S. drone conducts a strike overseas, Wired reports. However, this is also the third different reason Apple has given Drone+ developers for not providing the app in the App Store, [...]
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking mobile device management software as well as an application store for the Pentagon’s mobility program, the agency announced Wednesday on FedBizOpps. In a presolicitation notice, the agency said it is working to issue a full-and-open request for proposals and plans to award a three-year contract containing one base [...]
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Contractor-Supported Telescope Finds Hidden Galaxies, Black Holes; Hashima Hasan Comments
August 30, 2012 No CommentA NASA telescope has discovered new candidates for black holes and close to 1,000 dust-obscured objects the agency believes could be galaxies, the agency announced Wednesday. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, both DRS Technologies and Rockwell made the focal planes and Lockheed Martin made a cooling system for the [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want improved airport body scanners that can process images quicker and more precisely with “reduced probability of false alarm,” Wired reports. According to solicitation documents, the body scanners should be capable of real-time utilization of measurement techniques for faster acquisitions and enhanced signature [...]
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