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Stretching for thousands of miles beneath oceans, optical fibers now connect every continent except for Antarctica. With less data loss and higher bandwidth, optical-fiber technology allows information to zip around the world, bringing pictures, video, and other data from every corner of the globe to your computer in a split second. But although optical fibers are increasingly replacing copper wires, carrying information via photons instead of electrons, today's computer technology still relies on electronic chips.

IBM's predictive Crime Information Warehouse (CIW) technology collects data and spits out real-time, vital information for investigators.

What if you could conduct business on a second, more secure Internet? For some, the idea of a more secure Internet makes sense: all transactions would be safe from criminals and hackers who routinely break into corporate servers and deface websites. This second Internet would run alongside the main Internet but use an entirely different network of servers and IP addresses

Facial recognition software has advanced to the point it can cause serious security implications ... and open up a whole new world of powerful tech and clever innovation. This week at the Black Hat security conference researchers from Carnegie Mellon University will demonstrate how facial recognition technology can be used to positively identify a person and possibly even to gain access to their personal information, right down to their social security numbers

A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America.

How a new ratings system and lightning-fast database is kicking off conversations about brands that launched as far back as 1872, all the way up through ...

For the last several months I’ve talked about our economy being in neutral and teetering on the brink of improvement or downturn. With results in for the July SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard in hand, I feel comfortable (but certainly not good) now declaring that we are out of neutral and sliding into reverse. National Data Small business hiring decreased 10 basis points from last month – the tenth month in a row of declining or flat hiring

A sophisticated personalization algorithm--combined with ever-savvier editors--has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo's home page to the tune of a 270% increase in clicks since 2009.

You may be familiar with SAS 70: an audit standard used for businesses that provide a service relating to their clients’ finances. If you feel like you just figured out SAS 70 audits, I’m sorry to say that from now on, you will be undergoing Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 (SSAE 16) assessments instead.

Almost half of the folks surveyed recently said they'd be tempted into buying an Amazon tablet PC if it were priced below $300. That's a very tricky price point to reach. Meanwhile, all we really know about Amazon's tablet are rumors , hints , and suggestions --but this is typical of the company, and the data is adding up fast, suggesting it's really on its way soon.

Facebook and ComScore have teamed up for a new service, Social Essentials. It offers unprecedented insights into the influence of brands on social media, complete with detailed credit card behavior, and findings suggest it's not really your brand's fans you need to worry about--it's their friends. Forget Facebook fans; brands need to target the friends of fans.

Birmingham particle physicists are today trawling through the data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider that could indicate the existence of the Higgs boson.

The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is launching a wireless store loyalty card scheme that works using existing tech.

Network attached storage devices are gaining popularity as a way of sharing files among multiple computers.

Creating a social network is so last week. Today, American Express is unveiling a social media platform