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2007 turned out to be "one of the most remarkable years in the history of malware," according to the recently released "ESET Global Threat Report 2007." The movement of new digital devices, social networking channels, operating systems and platforms into the mainstream is providing malware creators ...
On Feb. 5, the MySpace Developer Platform will go live, the social networking site announced Wednesday. Software developers interested in bringing their applications to the social networking site can preregister on MySpace. "The MySpace Developer Platform will be the world's sandbox, allowing develo...
Quad-core processors from AMD and a hybrid-format optical drive are among the highlights of two new desktop PCs released by Gateway on Wednesday. The Gateway GM5664 and GT5662 both feature an AMD Phenom Processor and DirectX 10 Technology, thereby enhancing the entertainment and performance capabili...
My limited experience with online games has been nothing but nasty, brutish and short. A few online rounds of "Halo 2" at a friend's house showed me just how vicious gamers can be when they smell fresh meat. I could barely run 20 feet before getting cut down. The insults and taunts flew thick and fa...
Common threads often create a trust that is virtually unbreakable. Whether based on race, sex, alumni group, hometown or affliction, the more specific these ties are, the stronger the bonds between people often become. In a sea of news sites casting wide nets to capture as many viewers as possible, ...
Managers of enterprise networks are becoming more aware of the importance of IT risk management issues even though they still cling to four so-called myths that give a false sense of security, according to Symantec. The security vendor on Wednesday released its IT Risk Management Report Volume II, w...
Study after study continues to reveal a fundamental truth about the shifting landscape of IT security today: The biggest threat to proprietary systems and information is not the traditional cyber-criminal writing malicious code in a virtual location, but rather trusted employees. Savvy administrator...
On Feb. 2, leading presidential candidates will have one last chance to make their pitches to young voters before Super Tuesday with the final installment of "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue," a presidential candidate discussion hosted by MySpace and MTV. Democratic contender Hillar...
At the DEMO exhibition in Palm Desert, Calif., Livescribe on Monday debuted its much-anticipated Pulse smartpen. Technically a computer within a pen, the Pulse smartpen simultaneously captures handwriting and audio, and synchronizes them together. The device is also a general purpose computer with r...
AMD announced the release of its Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card Monday. The company's latest offering, courtesy of its 2006 ATI acquisition, combines two ATI Radeon 3870 chips on a single graphics board, connected via an integrated CrossFire technology. The double-barreled approach makes AMD the fi...
Cisco Systems released a new data center switching technology designed to make it easier for IT network managers to create a centralized data storage center. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is part of Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, which reverses the previous client-server side architecture that many d...
Desktops crash all the time, but e-mail is forever. Or so some 14,000 customers of Charter Communications may have thought until they tried to log on recently and found their messages and photos gone and never to return. It was a software glitch during routine maintenance that caused Charter to perm...
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really u...
Computer manufacturer HP has unveiled a new ultra-slim business desktop, the Compaq dc7800 desktop PC. The energy-efficient desktop features a 16 GB solid-state hard drive and also meets the requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool Gold registry, HP said. The introduction...
At this week's Digital Life Design conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a number of interesting issues. "G...