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While security startup Impermium doesn’t have the hot name cache of Nest, it is Google’s latest corporate buy.
Impermium specialized in helping Web sites fight spam, something that Google is already an industry leader at doing, but it had chops at stopping fraud and abuse as well.
Whether your Android phone has an amazing camera or a mediocre one, there are plenty of apps at Google Play that will help you take the best possible photos with it. We think Camera ZOOM FX is the best of those options, not just because it packs powerful features, but it helps you learn to take better photographs as well.
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Gartner estimates that the market for public cloud services will grow to $207 billion by 2016.
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Tracking changes in those shared docs on Google Drive just got a lot easier. The folks in Mountain View have added an activity stream to the cloud-based file repository for keeping tabs on collaborative efforts. Once you’re inside Drive, clicking the ‘i’ button at the top right will make the new list appear.
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Intel this week said it would ditch the venerable McAfee brand for its security products and services, and offer free mobile security software to customers running Android, iOS and other operating systems on their smartphones and tablets.
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The written word has a nasty habit of sticking around, surfacing in hacked email accounts, accidental forwards and the on untrustworthy lips of your peers. That’s why former AOL executive Jon Brod created Confide, an iOS texting app that erases sensitive messages as soon as they’re read.
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You’re sat at your PC. You’re not using the internet, and neither is anyone in your house who’s connected to the same router as you. And yet the lights on the router keep flashing. Clearly something is sending or receiving data, even though it’s not you.
Ever wanted to find out what’s doing all that communicating?
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The 802.11ac WiFi standard is a spring chicken no longer, making us curious as to why there’s a lack of range extenders supporting it — barring Amped Wireless’ efforts, of course. Looking to capitalize on the situation, Netgear’s launching a pair of such extenders at CES.
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Amped Wireless continues to expand its wireless repertoire with a brand new 802.11 ac Wi-Fi range extender that’s both powerful and compact. Dubbed the REC15A, the device offers a whopping 500 milliwatts of power, four amplifiers and a high-gain dual-band antenna in a relatively small 3-inch by 5-inch package.
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Remember that 90% transparent solar-cell that stumbled into our CES trailer last year? It’s back, and it’s got some new tricks. Wysips Connect is making its official debut on the show floor this year, and while the transparent panel can still generate electricity through sun exposure, it’s now equipped with LiFi – a visible light spectrum communication technique capable of transmitting data at broadband speeds. If LiFi becomes common in smartphones, shopping malls, airports or hospitals could use the technology to push local map data to a user’s phone, or help them find a product’s location in an oversized supermarket.
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