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The threat of terrorism weighed heavily on United States senators holding an oversight hearing on the Transportation Security Administration Wednesday. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was looking into the TSA's use of aggressive screening procedures for air traveler...
China Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world's Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year. The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security...
From the beginning of the social media revolution, it was obvious that the legal system was going to have trouble keeping up. It started when file-sharing sites like Napster trampled on copyright laws on their way to completely changing the way music is sold. Then, more than a few amateur bloggers...
What can users expect from Facebook's new messaging system, which will be able to deal with messages from and different types of communication media? Will it really take in messages from different types of messaging systems -- email, SMS, text, etc. -- and output responses to those systems? Bearing ...
Well, it's November again. And in addition to gearing up for turkeys, pumpkin pie and football, those of us in IT know it's time to gear up for something else, something probably much less pleasant: our annual budget cycle. It's time once again for us to enter into days-long deliberation sessions ...
Everything about Facebook is big. A half-billion users, 700 billion minutes a month spent there. It has 900 million pages, groups and events, according to the Facebook stats page. A new social networking startup, Path, is aiming the opposite direction -- at least with its core functionality. The ne...
Facebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging. It spans across a user's messaging systems, offering retention of a user's conversation history and a social inbox. "We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be email," Zuckerberg to...
Former Internet behemoth AOL is dipping its toes back into the email pool and gearing up to take a big plunge. The beta version of Project Phoenix, which became available on Sunday to users who sign up and request an invite, is expected to launch for real in early 2011. While the revamped service is...
For many small businesses, the challenges associated with network integration can actually put a stop to integration before it gets started. Concerns about cost, worries about the potential of business downtime and fears of implementation issues can lead businesses to put off both minor and long ov...
Last week was an interesting week, with increasing coverage of the Oracle vs. SAP trial and word out that Larry Ellison had put a bounty out on HP's new CEO Leo Apotheker so his attorneys could chew him out on the stand for taking Larry's buddy's job. At the same time, Google gave its employees a w...
Given the dominance of the major players in the browser market, any press release announcing a new one might as well be a suicide note. That hasn't discouraged developers from introducing new browsers. Some of those browsers have even been able to spark some initial buzz -- although the kind of buzz...
Once the pariah of the media world, peer-to-peer software has come a long way since the days of Napster and college kids with hard drives stuffed with pirated music. Now, current P2P software provider BitTorrent boasts 80 million users, which, as CEO Eric Klinker is quick to point out, is somewhere...
The Galaxy Tab Android tablet has landed. The greatly anticipated Samsung device represents what might be the greatest challenge yet to the Apple iPad's months-long dominance in the newly redefined tablet market. The Galaxy Tab is smaller and lighter than the iPad. The Galaxy has two cameras, runs F...
The Internet is likely to run out of IPv4 address spaces by early next year, Richard Jimmerson, CIO of ARIN, warned his audience during a speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference, being held in San Jose, Calif., through Friday. "By the end of the first q...
Google TV and Apple TV would have you believe "...we are now controlling the transmission ... the horizontal and the vertical..." in a pitch scraped straight from the intro to "The Outer Limits." But controlling the transmission, they're not. At least not yet. What viewers have now is an extremely f...
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