Apple News: MLB demos using Apple’s iBeacon technology to deliver personalised, interactive stadium experiences
Mashablereports that Major League Baseball has demo’d using Apple’s iBeacon indoor mapping technology to provide live baseball fans with a whole range of personalised and interactive experiences when attending games at stadiums. An update to its At the Ballpark app provides both practical assistance and additional entertainment and interest. By loading the free app when you get off the subway and head towards the stadium, it immediately knows you are at Citi Field. It populates a ballpark guide with information specific to the stadium, so if you were to enter Phillies’ Citizens Bank Park, the entire experience and data wouldn’t be the same. …
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Technology News: Getting Ready for the Future of Technology
The convergence of technical phenomena such as cloud, mobile and social computing, big data analysis, and the Internet of things that is being addressed by The Open Group’s Open Platform 3.0 Forum will transform the way that you use information technology. Are you ready? Mobile and social computing are leading the way. Recently, the launch of new iPhone models and the announcement of the Twitter stock flotation were headline news, reflecting the importance that these technologies now have for business. For example, banks use mobile text messaging to alert customers to security issues. Retailers use social media to understand their markets and communicate with potential customers.
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Programming News: Are buffer-overflows solved yet? A historical tale
Perhaps the most exciting, scary, and classic security vulnerability is the stack-based buffer overflow. This class of vulnerability goes as far back as the 1970s and its legendary status can be tied to C and Unix itself. One of the first computer worms, Morris, exploited exactly this flaw. In the late 1980s, overflows burst onto the national stage to become a leading security concern. In 1996, one of the most classic and most cited gray-hat security texts was published; entitled Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (PDF), Aleph One describes the attack in gory-detail and gives a full step-by-step guide on writing an exploit. These days, this text is required reading for security students and professionals alike. Indeed, the buffer-overflow has been so important that countless security research papers have been written about it attempting to “fix” the problem; this area has almost been completely beat to death by the research community. Despite this, papers are still being written and published today!
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Photography News: 9 Photography Projects to Try Out This Weekend
We know you’re probably bored. And to help you find some inspiration and push your photographic boundaries a bit, we’re encouraging you to just get out there try something new. It doesn’t matter what it is, but you’ll grow and you’ll probably even learn something about yourself or your craft. Just give something new a shot. With all this said, we’ve gone through our database (after a fresh new website server move) to bring you a couple new ideas that you might not have tried before.
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