TECHNOLOGY TODAY

Cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated daily and have a significant impact on the operation of the public and private sectors globally. The attacks have advanced from merely password guessing/cracking, hijacking sessions to advanced persistent threats, organized crime, nation-state cyber warfare and cyber based terrorism. The trends are worrying. Resultantly, cyber-crime has accounted for 22% of all economic crime reported locally by financial services organizations. Forensic experts have estimated Ksh 3 billion to be the cost of cybercrime on the Kenyan economy. USD 245 million was estimated as the combined estimated threat on the East African financial institutions. A 2012 CSI/FBI study estimated the global cost of ICT crime and remediation efforts to be USD 110 billion. The major ICT advances pose an ever-evolving risk environment which presents substantial security challenges to the Kenyan government.   The most emerging risk areas are, the increased socio econom...

About the Job 1. The pay... Pay for telecommunications engineers varies depending on responsibility, experience and area of specialisation. Graduate telecommunications engineers usually earn between $40,000 and $50,000 a year. With two to five years' experience they usually earn between $50,000 and $70,000 a year. After five years, telecommunications engineers usually earn between $60,000 and $90,000 a year. As a senior specialist you may earn between $85,000 and $120,000 So here's the breakdown...at the time I was posting this, the shilling was quite stable. Which is regardless to say it held well against the dollar. So anyway...1 dollar retailed at Ksh.83.98 buying in the NSE.  So I broke it down and this is how much we are talking about:- Graduate telecommunications engineers usually earn between Kshs.3,357,600 and Kshs 4,199,000 a year. With two to five years' experience they usually earn between Kshs 4,199,000 and Kshs 5,878,600 a year. After five years...

Faster Typing on Touchscreen Tablets with New Keyboard Layout ­Typing on today's mobile phones and tablets is needlessly slow, claims researchers...and I concur with them. One limitation is that the QWERTY layout is unsuited for tablets and other touch-screen devices when typing with the thumbs. Two-thumb typing is ergonomically very different from typing on a physical keyboard. It has been established that normal users using a QWERTY on a touch-screen device are limited to typing at a rate of around...say,... 20 words per minute...give or take.. which is slow compared to the rates achieved on physical keyboards. So these researchers set out to create an alternative to QWERTY that offers substantial performance advantages for users. The researchers incorporated models of thumb movement into a computational optimization algorithm. The researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and colleagues from the University of St Andrews and Montana Tech quickly realize...

Intel Develops New Telecoms Chip-set Reference Architectures ­So Intel has shown off three reference architectures that it claims will enable the IT and telecom industries to accelerate hardware and software development for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). Intel said that integrating SDN and NFV on standard x86 platforms allows lowering the acquisition and management costs as well as enabling new services. By separating control and data planes, SDN allows the network to be programmed and managed externally at much larger and more dynamic scale for better traffic control across the entire data center. NFV allows service providers to virtualize and manage networking functions such as firewall, VPN or intrusion detection service as virtual applications running on a high-volume x86-based server. "By decoupling the network from underlying hardware and enabling a new network architecture based on industry-standard x86 technology, ne...

Throughout the past immediate century technology has progressively advanced in many ways. The way to note the level of this change is how persons are interacting with the technology with time. One of these technological advances is the invention of touch screens. A touch screen is an audio visual display that enables its user to control its digital environment through a simple or multi touch gestures using a finger(s) or a simple object such as a stylus and to react to what is displayed and even control how its displayed such as zooming. It has three main components; the touch sensor, controller and obviously a software driver that directs the operating system how to interpret the touch event information that is sent from the controller. The controller is a card that connects between the touch sensor and the device. The touch sensor is a clear glass panel with a touch responsive surface. The history of touch screens traces back to 1971 with the invention of the Elograph by Elogra...