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Free Android app rats out bandwidth hogging applications

University of Michigan professors and students have created an Android smartphone apps that gives users and developers a window into how much power their apps are chewing up. PowerTutor, free at the Android Market, is designed to enable end users to ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  23 Nov 2009

Move over Taylor Swift: Here comes the first Twitter music album

A UK researcher has compiled what he is calling the first album of Twitter music, that is, music squeezed into Twitter's signature 140-character messages. Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, compiled the ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Taylor Swift,  Tweet (musician)

Kerberos brain dump via MIT

About Alpha Doggs The future of networking as seen through the works of university and other labs. Our mission is to give you a peek into the future of networking by tracking "alpha" research at university and other labs and at companies based ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Bob Brown

Friday the 13th special: 13 geeky 13th anniversaries

2009 marks the 13th anniversary for a slew of seminal tech industry events, so here on Friday the 13th, is a brief look back at developments both lucky and unlucky. (For our annual Geekiest 25th Anniversaries, click here) 1. Motorola introduces the ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Motorola, Inc.,  IBM,  Garry Kasparov,  AT&T Inc.,  Nintendo

HP buying 3Com for $2.7 million

HP Wednesday said it is acquiring 3Com for $2.7 billion, 30 years after Ethernet creator Robert Metcalfe co-founded the company. The acquisition will fill out HP's data center product portfolio with switches, routers and security products, plus expand ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Metcalfe

Researchers exploring how to get wireless carriers to shoulder responsibility for smartphone security

Georgia Tech researchers have received a $450,000 NSF grant to boost security of iPhones, BlackBerries and other smartphones and the wireless networks on which they run. And it’s those networks where the researchers are really zeroing in. The ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Science Foundation,  AT&T Inc.,  Rick Astley (musician)

Rutgers researchers cooking up safer password clues

Rutgers University researchers are testing whether "activity-based" password hint questions are better at safeguarding security than the static ones we're all used to, such as "What's your mother's maiden name?" These activity-based password clues ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  9 Nov 2009

iPhone app translates between English and Spanish, and vice-versa

A new iPhone 3GS app that turns the mobile device into an English-Spanish/Spanish-English speech translator is the brainchild of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Professor Alex Waibel. The application is being sold via Jibbigo, a company ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Carnegie Mellon University

Scientists unite: Millions awarded to build "Facebook for researchers"

The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  University of Florida,  Cornell University,  Tim Berners-Lee,  Washington University in St. Louis

Intel, CMU bulk up wimpy nodes in energy-efficient clustering project

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh have built an experimental energy-efficient computing cluster that combines flash memory and the sort of processors used in netbooks. Their name for it? Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN) ...

From ALPHA DOGGS, NetworkWorld,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Carnegie Mellon University,  National Science Foundation,  Google Inc.,  Network Appliance, Inc.

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