Friday, January 30, 2015


Curb Dangles Deals For Taxi Service
On-demand taxi service Curb has put on a renewed push to capture some of the Los Angeles on-demand ride market, launching a new promotion today on Groupon offering up to 85 percent off on its services. The company--formerly known as Taxi Magic--competes again Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Flywheel in allowing users to summon rides using their smartphone. Curb, like Flywheel, leverages local taxi companies for its rides, and has deals with LA Yellow Cab Company, South Bay Yellow Cab, Fiesta Taxi, Lon (More info...)
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3D Robotics Brings Drones Into The Schoolroom
Are unmanned aerial vehicles the next hot ticket in education? San Diego-based consumer drone developer 3D Robotics is hoping to bring its unmanned aerial vehicles to school, with a new program it launched Thursday called DroneEDU, saying that it will offer free and discounted hardware and support to the classroom. According to 3D Robotics, the new program is aimed at assisting students, teachers, and schools in deploying their own, unmanned aerial vehicles for learning and STEM exploration. 3D (More info...)
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WiSpry Gets Antenna Design Win
Irvine-based WiSpry reported Thursday that it has landed a design win with radio frequency identification product maker SkyeTek. WiSpry said thata SkyeTek has leveraged its tunable radio frequency micromechanical (RF MEMS) semiconductor products to develop an RF-tuned, UHF RFID antenna. The company's products are used to optimize the signal between SkyTek's RFID readers and the antenna so that they work across the full RFID range. That tuning--technically called impedence matching--matches the (More info...)
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Microsemi, Rambus Link In Cryptography Deal
Aliso Viejo-based Microsemi has linked up with Rambus, in a deal where Microsemi will resell advanced security technologies from Rambus into the government and military market. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The two said the deal covers certain differential power analysis (DPA) technologies developed by Rambus in its Cryptography Research division, plus AES cryptogrpahic cores. Differential power analysis (DPA) apparently is being used by attackers to determine the cryptograph (More info...)
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IDrive Rolls Out Full System Image Backups
Los Angeles-based online storage and backup service IDrive is extending further into the enterprise side of the disaster recovery and backup market, saying this week that it has added disk image backup--the backup of entire system drives and operating systems--to its suite of services. The company said the service is aimed at allowing its users to recover their systems in the event of system crashes and other disasters, which it says is specifically important for larger organizations with busine (More info...)
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