In 2012, New York was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, which claimed 53 lives and caused over US$ 32 billion in damages. While any life lost during a natural disaster is a tragedy, 53 deaths is considerably low considering the amount of damage. So why were there so few fatalities compared with hurricanes of similar magnitude?…
WASHINGTON—The Washington Navy Yard shooting on September 16th which resulted in 13 deaths segued into a sea of scrutiny over the surveillance and security in the shipyard which, according to McClatchy Washington Bureau, includes poor entrance controls, video dead spots, inadequate lighting, malfunctioning alarms and other problems. Was poor security and surveillance to blame for…
Open up an international newspaper, and it’s clear that the word “trust” is simply not as operative as it was fifty years ago. The onslaught of armed robberies, government scandals, and international attacks in the 21st century demands higher security measures, and this need has become the cornerstone of the Global Biometric Reader Market. TechNavio…
Early last week, L’Oreal SA—currently ranked as the largest cosmetics company in the world—purchased Mumbai-based Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals, a professional skincare products and treatment company. The acquisition marks L’Oreal’s maiden India-based acquisition, and represents the company’s lucrative entrance into the multi-billion-dollar Global Cosmeceuticals Market. For those who haven’t heard the word “cosmeceuticals” in everyday conversation, the…
Apache Hadoop is an open-source software platform that runs on MapReduce technology in order to perform distributed computations on various hardware servers. It was originally adapted from Google File System and Google MapReduce papers, and is now used by hundreds of enterprises for processing, storing, and analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Related: What’s driving the global managed…
With the last of the Baby Boomer generation approaching the age of retirement, the US is experiencing higher than normal patient volumes as citizens require medical attention. The rise in the aging population has also led to an increase in conditions and neurological disorders which require radiographic testing. This fact is one of the cornerstones…
How many times have you heard the old (and fairly pessimistic saying), “You can’t trust anyone these days”? The truth is, in today’s technology heavy world, digital threats are a very real problem and the stakes for defending against such threats are higher than ever. An entire enterprise could easily collapse just because the wrong…
Network applications are a set of diverse software applications that combine the internet and related hardware to execute several functions over a shared network. Demand for the technology is quickly rising, thanks to its usefulness for functions such as mobile payments and mobile commerce. These applications are also used to improve network performance and security,…
The Holiday Season is fast approaching which means fighting crowds, standing in impossibly long lines and stressing over whether or not the item that you want is actually even available. Year in and year out, the process has always been the same. That is, until Online Shopping was born. When Electronic Commerce, commonly called e-commerce…
Between 2007 to 2012, Nasdaq, Visa, J.C. Penney and several other companies fell victim to five men guilty of hacking and credit card fraud totalling more US$ 300 million— the biggest cyber-crime case in U.S. history. If that’s not scary enough, the statistics below, courtesy of Symantec, paint a vivid picture on the epidemic that…
