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Google announced a new more secure version of its Eddystone beacon format to protect user privacy, called Eddystone-EID. Eddystone-EID protects user privacy in an app by broadcasting secure beacon signals, including website address URLs, using what’s termed a ‘rotating ephemeral identifier’. According to Google, this will allow manufacturers to manage access to beacons to avoid unpermitted access, and guard against ...

Google and IBM are leading a group of 200 companies starting projects to address the challenges of processing and storing big data in the world’s data centres. Under the banner of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Google is developing a new server as part of the Open Compute Project. The OpenPOWER Foundation supports the ecosystem for POWER CPUs, system platforms, firmware and middleware ...

“The ability to code is now as important as grammar and mathematics skills and it can unlock important new career options," says ARM's CEO.

Using thermal simulation to improve the thermal design of the Open Compute Project’s Intel-based servers, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET. The Open Compute Project Foundation is challenging itself to successfully scale computing infrastructure in a way that is both efficient and economical. Founded by Facebook, the foundation is fostering a fast-growing community of talented engineers around the world who are tasked ...

Moxie Marlinspike, a co-developer of the Signal encrypted mobile messages app, is seeing his security technology used by Facebook’s messaging service, WhatsApp. Encryption is a key technology for social media websites such as Facebook, and the technology developed by Moxie Marlinspike (the name is a pseudonym) and now marketed by his company Open Whisper Systems in the Signal app, is playing ...

The FESPA Digital show opens at the RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam today. It is Europe’s largest exhibition of digital printing and signage technologies and applications. Three halls will contain digital print technology including equipment, consumables, software and applications from international and local manufacturers. This year the exhibition will include it largest showing of digital signage technologies and products. The European ...

Plans for a global roll-out of 5G mobile by 2020 are starting to take shape. This week at Mobile World Congress the European Union (EU) and Brazil signed an agreement to develop 5G, the next generation of communication networks. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics Weekly guide » This agreement follows similar cooperation initiatives with South Korea, Japan and China and EU ...

Browsing among the crowded booths and enthusiastic attendees of Mobile World Congress this week, the world’s biggest showcase of mobile phone technologies, the overwhelming presence of one particular product is blatantly obvious – Virtual Reality (VR), writes Tom Wilson from Barcelona. The floors of the MWC exhibition tend to provide a good indication of the years key consumer products. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics ...

In the search for more mobile data bandwidth Google, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm are part of a group of companies which proposing to use the US 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) for new types of mobile services. Last year the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened 150MHz of spectrum in the 3.5GHz CBRS band for commercial use. The spectrum ...

LG has confirmed its latest flagship smartphone, the G5, at a special event before the official opening of Mobile World Conference in Barcelona this week, writes Tom Wilson. Among the usual announcements of faster processors and better camera technology, LG had an ace up its sleeve to differentiate itself from the competition by debuting the world’s first commercially available modular smartphone. Unlike ...