May 22, 2013

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Goldman Sachs to Pay $27 Million Fine to Financial Services Authority of UK

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Goldman Sachs Group agreed to pay a fine of nearly $27 Million to the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority and concede that the company made a mistake in regulatory disclosures about trader Fabrice Tourre, according to people familiar with the situation. The fine (one of the biggest ever imposed in Britain) was related to Goldman’s [...]

Even India Keeping an Eye on RIM BlackBerry Security Issues After Middle East Countries – India Gave Aug.31 Deadline to RIM

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Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday. A DoT official, who declined to be named, told reporters that the meeting ended “inconclusively,” but refused to provide details. The ultimatum came [...]

San Francisco Now Using Demand Parking Meters to Get Rid of Parking Hassle

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The endless search for a parking spot in the city may be a thing of the past—in San Francisco, at least. After years of preparation, the city is now rolling out SFpark, a high-tech new system that will set the price of parking spots according to supply and demand. The San Francisco Metro Transit Authority [...]

Escape From Traffic Jam with new Terrafugia Transition Flying Car

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The joy of being able to lift off from the midst of a Bank Holiday traffic jam and then just zip to your destination by air has for almost a century been one of those technological marvels that was, we were promised, just around the corner. That dream is one giant leap closer today as [...]

Its Time to Implement IPv6, IPv4 Running Out of Addresses

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As the remaining pool of IPv4 addresses dwindles (only 623 million are left!), it turns out that the remaining address space isn’t exactly beachfront property. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently has 16 blocks of 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left—out of a total of 221 usable such blocks. In January, IANA gave the 1.0.0.0/8 [...]