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As Washington, D.C. deliberates about how and when to end the U.S. government shutdown and avoid default on the country's debts, it may have not crossed your radar screen that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
With the recent launch of the iPhone 5s, there has been much ado about using fingerprints as an added method of security for our personal devices, thus bringing the lightly used authentication technique on PCs and laptops to the mobile world - where device theft and misplacement are big issues.
Sponsored By: Software Telco Congress - November 20-21, 2013 – Santa Clara, CA
The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market is predicted to reach $6B by 2018. As network hardware begins to be replaced by software, carriers are expected to save money and benefit greatly from new levels of flexibility related to powering their network functions in private and virtual private clouds. Attend Software Telco Congress and learn how the move to software will:
- reduce operator CAPEX and OPEX
- reduce power consumption
- reduce time-to-market for new network services
- speed ROI for new services
- allow for greater flexibility to scale up, scale down or evolve services
- provide opportunities to trial and deploy new innovative services at lower risk
- leverage open-source
Just when I was complaining on Twitter how boring the last two weeks of VoIP-related news has been, Vonage buys Vocalocity. It's a very interesting move, but the underlying reason is a little bit uninspiring.
For those of you who follow my postings, you are hopefully at this point not just aware but in agreement with my characterization of the times in which we live as The Age of Acceleration-where the only constants are change and the speed at which it is increasing. In short, disruption is now a way of life.
Long-time human interface solutions player Synaptics recently signed a Definitive Agreement to acquire Validity Sensors, a key provider of biometric fingerprint authentication solutions for smartphones, tablets and notebook PCs. Most of us likely know Synaptics best for its laptop touchpads, which enable and provide gesture-based controls for laptops that lack touchscreens.
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