Microsoft Corp has acquired Israeli start-up Secured Dimensions for a few million dollars. Secured Dimensions has developed a technology for the protection of applications based on Microsoft’s .NET platform. This is the latest move in Microsoft’s expansion of its technological activity in the Israeli market, after the announcement of its new R&D center, and the acquisition of two other companies Whale Communications, and Gteko.
Privacy Networks, the e-mail integrity company, today announced that CH2M HILL's Managed Services business unit will offer its PrivacyVault e-mail archiving solution as part of its array of IT services and offerings it provides to more than 1,400 worldwide customers. The agreement marks the continued rapid adoption of Privacy Networks' e-mail management solution by leading managed services providers (MSPs) and mid-sized businesses as part of the growing need to manage and retrieve Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
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Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week
Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
Harvard Business School WORKING KNOWLEDGE
Most of us believe that we should make certain choices—save more money or reduce gas consumption, for example—but we do not want to carry out these choices. In psychology this tension has been referred to as a "want/should" conflict. Rogers and Bazerman show through four experiments that people are more likely to choose what they believe they should choose when the choice will be implemented in the future rather than in the present, a tendency they call "future lock-in." They also discuss directions for future research and applications for public policy, an arena in which citizens are often asked to consider binding policies that trade short-term interests for long-term benefits.
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Notiweb, es el boletín de noticias de I+D+i, de la web Madridmasd.org. En el boletín del día 2 de Enero de 2007, había un especial Chips de identificación: privacidad y libertad.
De cómo las tecnologías de identificación nos convierten en "presuntamente culpables"
Roberto Feltrero. Instituto de Filosofía. CSIC
Real Decreto 424/2005: Lagunas Peligrosas
Natalia Fernández (Directora de la Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas)
Polémica en EE.UU. por la implantación de chips de identificación en trabajadores
Los biochips entran en las consultas
Un nuevo chip con láser promete revolucionar la transmisión de datos
Viaje al corazón del DNI electrónico
Blog madri+d
Tanto e-camino por recorrerDel blog Democracia Electrónica
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