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The laptop world is reeling under the threat of tablets, and various vendors are attempting to shore it up with different their various take...
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Georgia Tech have automated the process of finding and recording inform...
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Antivirus vendor Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has announced enhancements to its enterprise mobile security product. These include capabilities fo...
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Brain-Scanning Bot Maps Minds at Warp Speed
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Georgia Tech have automated the process of finding and recording information from cells in living brains, as reported in the May 6 issue of Nature Methods.
Graphic courtesy of the Boyden Lab
"Autopatching makes recording the electrical and circuit properties [of cells] straightforward and effortless for the operator," Craig Forest, assistant professor at Georgia Tech and one of the members of the research team, told TechNewsWorld.
This technology "can be integrated with molecular analysis, such as gene expression measurement, and cell staining for shape, or morphology, measurement. Together, electrophysiology, gene expression and morphology comprise a complete description for healthy cells and cells that are under the influence of drugs or diseased for comparison," he said.
"For example, such a study could be used to discover the cellular processes underlying diseases like epilepsy, narcolepsy, Alzheimer's ... or for drugs like anesthesia," he added.
Symantec on the Move With Enterprise Security
Antivirus vendor Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) has announced enhancements to its enterprise mobile security product.
These include capabilities for mobile application management, data loss prevention (DLP), certificate management and code signing for devs.
The features will help IT cope with the burgeoning Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, which has employees increasingly using their personal mobile devices for work, Symantec said.
Symantec has also joined the Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) System Center Alliance ecosystem and will work with Redmond to develop and promote its offerings.
"This news from Symantec ... further validates our long-held assertion that mobile security will become not only its own market, but the market, as traditional desktop threats move to mobile devices and receive more exposure in the general public and tablets outsell laptops," Spencer Cobb, CEO and cofounder of Mobile Active Defense (MAD), told TechNewsWorld.
HP Declares New 'Sleekbooks' Notebook Category
The laptop world is reeling under the threat of tablets, and various vendors are attempting to shore it up with different their various takes on the Ultrabook concept. On Tuesday, HP (NYSE: HPQ) added a new item to the mix with the announcement of a new line of notebooks it refers to as "Sleekbooks."
The HP Envy Sleekbook
Ultrabooks and its Sleekbooks are part of HP's "thin and light" portfolio, but the specs don't show too much of a difference between the two lines.
HP is "attempting to slipstream the Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Ultrabook initiative with a product that doesn't comply with it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The move will "likely piss off Intel, but it is creative, and depending on how well [the Sleekbook] is marketed and [its] value, it could be very successful."
An HP spokesperson was not immediately available to provide further details.