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A neural network that uses infrared imagery to monitor the build-up of people can warn of dangerous crowd crushes in Mecca - or at the bus stop THIS year's Muslim hajj pilgrimage in October passed without major incident, but every few years serious crushes kill hundreds.

It's no longer enough to have smartphones, smartwatches, smart TVs and smart cars.

If your computer is infected with a virus or other forms of malware, disconnecting the machine from the Internet is one of the first steps security experts say you should take.

"For young people, you need to make things tangible. You need to feel with your hands the CPU warm up, see the lights turn on, hear the speakers - or this computer science doesn't feel real.

HP and Dell lead Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer in InfoWorld's reviews of both classic clamshell notebooks and innovative touch-driven hybrids more In this eGuide, InfoWorld along with sister publications CIO, CSO, and Computerworld examine the state of mobile app development and management in the enterprise.

A recent report by IDC says that 14 million jobs will be created by cloud computing.

Information Technology is the way of the future in jobs, according to most industry experts.

Google Inc. this week expanded its cloud services business and cut prices for some key offerings, stepping up its bid to challenge Amazon.com in a growing market.

Security researchers are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked.

For Andrea Johnson, the heart of computer science is not programs or gadgets, but people.

Massively Parallel Technologies , Inc. today announced that it is extending its highly successful "Blue Cheetah" PaaS software beta project to the University market and is providing free training and certification to the first 500 interns from U.S. universities.

Apple's App Store will not reveal how its top charts' ranking system works, but a study from Boston app marketing agency Fiksu found that it is not purely driven by download volume and speed.

"We see many companies looking to adopt BYOD strategies for employees, but few who are solely BYOD," observed Milja Gillespie, Director of Product Marketing, Mobile Security, SAP, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing Journal .

Devon IT's Ceptora is rapidly gaining traction within early adopters at companies and organizations worldwide.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will expand its family of enterprise SSD with new models designed to support read intensive applications.

I would agree and have specualted that Apple will offer an A7-based platform. Although Apple is still on the high-end of traditional PC pricing, the company is offering more competitive pricing on the MacBook Air and the iPad this holiday season.

In the world of computing and the internet, a denial-of-service or distributed denial-of-service is an attempt to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

Windows 8's uptake stalled in November, while the now-aging Windows 7 continued to gain ground, a Web metrics company said Sunday.

Advances in computer storage have created collections of data so huge that researchers often have trouble uncovering critical patterns in connections among individual items, making it difficult for them to realize fully the power of computing as a research tool.

A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.