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Joining Nevada and Florida, New Jersey is the latest state to enact legislation that strongly limits the rights of convicted sex offenders to use the Internet. A bill, signed Thursday by New Jersey Acting Gov. Richard Codey, allows judges to impose the restrictions and also makes it easier for autho...
Google raised Web surfers' hackles after a seemingly simple change linking its Google Reader service with Google Talk. The move has raised concerns about privacy and highlighted the delicate balancing act that companies with vast stores of personal data have to perform as they try to improve their o...
Enterprises house vast amounts of information, the secure and timely handling of which is key to their core business -- especially as it relates to sensitive personal and financial data. As a result, an enterprise's IT developer community has transformed into the role of compliance enforcer and prot...
Cruising the Web on a smartphone is about like cruising for a date on a tricycle -- the basic concept is there, but the delivery is laughable. If you are using an iPhone, then it's more like cruising in a Volkswagen Beetle -- better, but still short of the Lamborghini speeds we're used to on the ope...
Doomsayers may be fond of predicting the imminent collapse of the Internet under the weight of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications, but at least one infrastructure provider is on track to increase its capacity tenfold by 2010. VeriSign, which manages the critical infrastructure that han...
It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...
Heavy e-mail users sometimes have trouble finding the needle of information they need in the haystacks of old missives lingering in their in-boxes. That's the sort of user IBM has targeted with its new OmniFind Personal E-Mail Search tool. Rolled out Thursday, IOPES is a free, semantics-based search...
As you read a sentence, its meaning may be clear even before you reach its end. This illustrates our topic. Our minds process text sequentially. As we read, the context presented to us by an author develops in our minds. What precedes clarifies what follows, and vice-versa. This phenomenon is a resu...
Malware is replacing Google text ads with ads from another source, according to BitDefender. The virus, Trojan.Qhost.WU, is using the host's file to redirect the initial query sent to the Google Adsense servers to a malicious host, according to an advisory issued by the firm. The host's file is the...
The next iteration of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, will roll out in beta form early next year, the company announced Wednesday. The long-awaited news comes just days after the earlier-than-expected launch of the second beta version of Mozilla's Firefox 3 Web browser. The eighth vers...
Online content creation is an increasingly popular pastime among American teens, but there are sharp differences in the media preferred by boys and girls, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. A full 64 percent of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engage in at lea...
We all know the pun on the BlackBerry name, likening the smartphone to a very addictive and destructive drug. Bad taste and moral issues aside, though, recent research shows that today's workers are indeed extremely attached to their mobile devices, especially the ones that let users access e-mail a...
Security researcher Aviv Raff has published a vulnerability affecting Google's Toolbar browser feature. The weak spot Raff reported could let a hacker gain control of a user's PC when the user tries to add a new Google Toolbar button. The vulnerability is based on spoofing a trusted site that would ...
A security update released by Microsoft last week is wreaking havoc with Internet Explorer for some users. Shortly after Microsoft issued its MS07-069 security bulletin last Tuesday, users began posting reports of problems with Internet Explorer on support newsgroups, including the Windows Update gr...
Web 2.0 applications are quickly taking over traditional activities on the Internet. Web sites are becoming interactive as they offer multiple function applications. This, in turn, is creating greater security risks for both consumers and network operators. One of the biggest concerns is the need fo...
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