As I have recently completed my third year of engineering in university, I have started my sixteen month internship. When I told my friend I was working for an aerospace and defense manufacturing company, the first thing he asked me was, “Yo, want to hook me up with a lightly used, low mileage, accident-free second-hand fighter jet?” He would then ask me whether or not there were heavy security clearances I would go through, with tons of...
From InfoWorld: BlackBerry is allowing rivals AirWatch, Citrix, SAP, and IBM to directly manage its smartphones with the Blackberry 10 operating system as part of its strategy to open up management of its devices to third parties.
The move by BlackBerry acknowledges a growing trend for customers to...
From PC World: Adobe Systems released critical security updates for several products Tuesday in order to fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to take remote control of systems running the vulnerable software.
The products that received security patches were Flash Player, the Adobe AIR SDK...
From CNET: Nintendo's troubles with the Nintendo 3DS at the hands of mobile gaming might make you think that the company's first mobile app would deliver gaming to smartphones and tablets. Well, you'd be wrong.
Nintendo and Japan-based wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo will launch an app on Thursday that...
From DailyTech: Microsoft today has some new ammunition in its fight against the PlayStation 4: a new starting price. The Redmond, Washington-based software/hardware company will soon offer the Xbox One without the bundled Kinect camera. As a result, the console by itself will be priced at $399...
From InfoWorld: Seven months after dismissing OpenDaylight, HP has raised its membership in the vendor-driven open source SDN consortium to its highest and most expensive tier.
HP is now a Platinum member of OpenDaylight, raising its status from a lower tier Silver member, which it has been since...
From PC World: Microsoft has released a new version of its Lync client for Android that now works on tablets as well as smartphones, expanding the footprint of its fast-growing unified communications product.
There are already Lync apps for iOS—iPhone and iPad—Windows Phone and Windows 8.1.
“The...
From CNET: Many of the leading handset vendors have a hand -- or at least a pinky -- in both the Android and Windows Phone worlds.
Motorola, one of the major handset companies to embrace Android early on, became a division of Google in 2012.
Google made no secret that Motorola's patent portfolio -...
From DailyTech: How low can they go? Motorola today is taking a stab at the budget smartphone market with the new Moto E, which will be priced at a remarkably low $129 without a contract.
Given its budget pricing, the Moto E has hardware specs to match. That means that you’ll be using a device...
High school calculus. These three words may resonate differently with different people; for me, it was really a love-hate relationship. I loved that course, because I actually like math. At the same time, I did not like that course, because I did not understand what half the stuff meant until years after I have entered engineering in university. One of the topics discussed in the curriculum was optimization. Basically, in order to find the point...
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