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Phoning home

Known as: Dial home features, Dial home, Phones home 
Phoning home, in computing, refers to an act of client to server communication which is undesirable to the user and/or proprietor of the device or… 
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2013
2013
Exploiting visual appearance to cluster and detect rogue software
Rogue software, such as Fake A/V and ransomware, trick users into paying without giving return. We show that using a perceptual… 
2011
2011
Global dynamics of an HIV-1 infection model with distributed intracellular delays
2009
2009
Mobile phones for development and profit : a win-win scenario 128 April 2009
This and other ODI Opinions are available from www.odi.org.uk The number of mobile subscribers globally is estimated to have… 
2007
2007
Freedom of the Press 2.0
In today's digital age, copyright law is changing. It now attempts to regulate machines. Over the past twenty years, and… 
2007
2007
Analysis of the Impact of Polyimide Coating on Passivation Reliability by Simulation
In this paper, an advanced 3D FEA model framework with global and local sub-model is developed to investigate the impact of the… 
2007
2007
Pulsed Current Static Electrical Contact Experiment
Railguns involve both static and sliding electrical contacts, which must transmit the large transient electrical currents… 
2006
2006
Trade openness, real exchange rates, and the exchange rate regime choice
Among trading economies, the advantage of flexible exchange rates lies in exploiting the 'expenditure switching effect of… 
2003
2003
eaction rate coefficient of fullerene ( C ) consumption by soot 60 *
The reaction of fullerene molecules with soot was studied by contacting sublimed C fullerenes with commercially 60 available… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Adaptive piggybacking: a novel technique for data sharing in video-on-demand storage servers
Recent technology advances have made multimedia on-demand services, such as home entertainment and home-shopping, important to… 
1990
1990
ERLANG - an experimental telephony programming language
We present an experimental programming language called ErIang which is suitable for programming telephony applications. We… 
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