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The New IBM Screen Shield Can Scramble Your Private Data

Editor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:53:10 +0000

This is a safeguard encryption report which has looked into the details on how much of personal information gets seeped through calls from call centers. So it is a warning to be more careful while receiving call from any call center. This is actually security question that can get seeped through.

The new security leading technology from IBM is not even as promising as it was released to be.

The MAGEN or Masking Gateway for Enterprises is the software aimed for industries but not for private people. This makes people even more sensitive of giving away their information and even through banking system as well as other government sectors.

Character recognition security is going to be a must change for many. MAGEN treats only a collective client but the information on your screen picture could even be sensitive for information reception and so would be your optical character. The techniques need to be used to protect these blanked out places of recognition to make character acknowledgment come to greater use.

Source: techradar

IBM Invests in Battery Research

Editor — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:52:03 +0000

IBM has decided to invest on battery research and the company hopes to develop a battery that is capable of storing huge volume of energy, almost ten times as much as energy stored in today’s batteries. The company has announced a deadline as five years for the project and will partner with U.S national labs to develop this promising but controversial technology. Though the technology is capable of producing high energy density batteries but it uses highly flammable lithium metal to react with the oxygen present in the air.

Lithium metal-air batteries are most effective and can store tremendous amount of energy as high as 5000 watt-hours per kilogram. This high energy density has made us to take the risk of going with this technology than lithium-ion batteries says Chandrasekar Narayan, manager of science and technology, IBM research.

He also added that only these new lithium metal-air batteries had the power to bring a change in the field of transportation and on grid that has made the company to go for this project. These batteries do not require a secondary reactant as these will react with oxygen from the air. The only concern with these is the moisture in the air which may prove dangerous if it is allowed to react with the lithium metal.

Source: beta.technologyreview

IBM Moves on Research through Cloud Computing

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:55:28 +0000

IBM recently came up with the news that it is working in co-ordination with the six universities in order to control IBM Blue Cloud results to accelerate ventures and investigate enterprises that were some time ago inhibited by time, imperfect or engaged resources, or weighed down IT systems.

The Cloud Computing Initiative are driven by three universities and would unlock its cloud network to restricted businesses and industries to experiment functions and complete an assortment of tasks, together with seismic modelling and the examination for oil and gas.

An additional university, the University of Pretoria is already making use of the cloud computing to check the progress of drugs to deliberate the development of severe diseases in Africa.

The universities are seemingly excited with the opportunity of working with IBM on creating the first ever cloud computing platform, especially in the Middle East.

This would enable the universities to realise their vision of developing the cloud computing architecture that would also help them to focus on the regional applications as well as the projects in order to expand the research.

Along with the many of the expected uses of such computing centres for advanced research, they would also include the activities of scientific modelling, data mining and simulations, financial modelling and forecasting as well as computational biology. Such a development of the cloud computing centre would be based on the phased approach.

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