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by Ken Lewis ; "Image")
World leading New Zealand research has turned conventional thinking about computer use on its head, revealing that most of us spend as little as 2.4 hours a day actively engaged with our machines and nearly half of that is spent on emails or surfing the net.
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By Rob O’Neill Auckland
Services provider Axon hasn’t made an acquisition in 15 years, but chief executive Scott Green says that is about to change.
The company has finalised a three-year “vision” that includes some key buys, including one aimed at providing Axon with the ability to deliver “telco-like” services. Meanwhile across town, at rival Gen-i, plans are afoot to boost capacity by making use of Telecom’s partnership with Indian outsourcer Tech Mahindra.
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PS3 used to conduct over 1.4 billion MD5 calculations a second, says Kiwi researcher
By Ulrika Hedquist Auckland
Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords. By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10–15 million cycles per second — in Intel-based architecture — up to 1.4 billion cycles per second. read more »
