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Apple, Cisco, Aon, Allianz team up for cyber risk management solution

Apple, Cisco, Aon, Allianz team up for cyber risk management solution

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | , |

Apple, Cisco, Aon and Allianz have announced a new cyber risk management solution for businesses, comprised of cyber resilience evaluation services from Aon, secure technology from Cisco and Apple, and options for enhanced cyber insurance coverage from Allianz.

The new solution is designed to help a wider range of organizations better manage and protect themselves from cyber risk associated with ransomware and other malware-related threats, which are the most common threats faced by organizations today.

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Video ad spending on on YouTube, Facebook to grow by 130% in five years

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | , |

New data from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) finds that advertising spend on FVOD (Free Video on Demand) content, such as media on YouTube and Facebook, will surge over the next 5 years, reaching $37 billion by 2022. This is up from an estimated $16 billion in 2017. In addition, unique users of such content will reach just under 4.5 billion globally by 2022, as the appetite for free video media continues its expanse, adds the research group.

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NordVPN offers security and privacy tips for Android users

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | , |

Android devices have recently been under fire for the lack of security provided to their users. For example, it was revealed that the Lebanese Security Agency has been implanting fake apps into Android users’ phones. That allowed the agency to follow people in many countries – journalists, activists, military members and others.
 
In addition, it was found that three quarters of all Android devices were running on security patches at least two months old, posing risks to the users.
 

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The Northern Spy: The X in X Factor stands for ….

The Northern Spy: The X in X Factor stands for ….

Posted by | Feb 2, 2018 | , |

By Rick Sutcliffe

Well, it has happened before…back in ’83. See, from a feature point of view, the iPhone 8 look doomed beside the X. But price points do come into play in such matters. Apple is curtailing the production of the X, and the Spy assumes it will be discontinued once the X year is done.

As the physician said to the 12-year old Spy when he came into his office looking like scarlet fever: “Allergic to the phenobarb, eh? Well, back to the old drawing board. Somehow anniversary special products just don’t do well. Are they too hastily conceived?

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RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Match v2 for After Effects and Premiere Pro

RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Match v2 for After Effects and Premiere Pro

Posted by | Feb 2, 2018 | , |

RE:Vision Effects (www.revisionfx.com) has released RE:Match 2 for Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. The upgrade addresses common color problems when using multiple shots and/or multiple cameras. 

For general multicam shoots RE:Match matches, as best it can, one sequence’s color appearance to match that of another. For stereo pairs, the software can further refine the overall color match by taking into account that the two views are captured at the same time with a relatively small distance between the views.

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