News

Volume

48

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan. 2015

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

27

Abstract

Topics include hackers hitting Sony with a devastating attack, a new Bluetooth version offering online connectivity that could advance the Internet of Things, the recent death of the father of the home video-game console, big e-commerce websites crashing under the weight of holiday shopping traffic, lawmakers approving a plan that could break up Google in Europe, advanced malware spying on victims for six years before being discovered, gaming companies worrying that using virtual reality could make players sick, scientists building a molecular-level flash-storage system, researchers saying that many children´s apps violate users´ privacy, and extensive global law-enforcement operation taking down dark websites.

Keywords

6LoWPAN; Android; Atari; Best Buy; Bluetooth; Bluetooth 4.2; Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG); Brown Box; CMU; Cabela; Carnegie Mellon University; Computer Human Interaction: Mobility Privacy Security group; Compuware; Dynatrace; Electronic Arts; European Commission; European Parliament; Europol; Foot Locker; Google; Guardians of Peace; HP Shopping; Hewlett-Packard; IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks; Internet of Things; IoT; Jason Hong; Kim Jong-un; Magnavox; North Korea; Oculus Rift; Oculus VR; Odyssey; Operation Onymous; PrivacyGrade.org; Project Morpheus; Ralph Baer; Regin; Sanders Associates; Sony Computer Entertainment; Sony Pictures; Staples; Symantec; Take-Two Interactive Software; Tor; University of Glasgow; University of Rovira i Virgili; VR; break up Google; flash storage; gaming; hackers; home gaming console; malware; molecular-level flash storage; motion sickness; privacy; reliability; search engines; security; virtual reality; virtualization; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2015.22

Filename

7030214