MOBILE PHONE firm Nokia has released a short-range wireless
connection specification that is smaller and more energy-efficient than
Bluetooth.
According to Reuters, Nokia has decided to name
the device Wibree, although it is not clear why. We think it means
small runny French cheese in Bulgarian.
Nokia said the new technology can work alongside Bluetooth short-range
wireless connections and uses up to 10 times less power. It provides a
radio link of up to 30 feet between devices.
It will move short-range wireless technology into areas that Bluetooth
has been unable to go. So far watches, sensors, wireless mice, health
monitors can’t use Bluetooth due to power problems.
Broadcom, CSR, Epson and Nordic Semiconductor have signed a licence to
use the technology.
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It’s already a workplace maxim that employees should
be careful what they say in their emails from company computers. But
fewer office workers know to apply caution to their use of
instant-messaging services.
These immensely popular computer programs, which let
users exchange short text messages with online buddies in real time,
are no haven for private chatter. Companies and government agencies can
monitor and log IM conversations conducted on company-network
computers. And though it seems that IM conversations disappear into a
cyber-vacuum when a session is over, that isn’t always true.
Two scandals currently dominating the headlines
highlight the risks. In the past week, instant messaging came back to
haunt former Republican congressman Mark Foley of Florida. He resigned
abruptly when he was confronted with his emails to a young Capitol Hill
page, which showed a member of Congress taking an unusual — and
perhaps disturbingly close — interest in a subordinate. But the most
damning revelations came from his sexually explicit IM sessions with
several pages. (more…)
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