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The release of a beta version of the BBC's new iPlayer late last month has reportedly drawn the ire of UK Internet service providers upset over the media player's bandwidth requirements and added more fuel to the fire in the net neutrality debate. Broadband providers including Tiscali U.K. have char...
A group of hackers infiltrated the United Nations' Web site over the weekend, defacing the page of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with antiwar political graffiti. Hackers reportedly replaced portions of recent speeches made by Ban with accusations that the United States and Israel are killing childre...
After a suffering a setback last month when the Federal Communications Commission found flaws in a new Microsoft-produced wireless broadband device that could enable the use of the so-called white spaces in radio spectrum airwaves for high-speed Internet traffic, the Redmond-based software giant is ...
Last week, I was in San Francisco on a panel moderated by Rackable Systems at LinuxWorld, and not only did I walk away alive, I was impressed by the solid work that was being done at the event and amazed at how well Microsoft was fitting in. The new iMacs were announced, and it is becoming increasin...
WiFi is not just for laptops anymore. All sorts of devices now connect to the Internet via Wireless Fidelity technology. Smartphones -- think Apple's iPhone, among others -- mobile media players and even gaming machines often come with WiFi features to enhance usability. At the same time, more and m...
The casual gaming industry appears to be passing "Go" and preparing to collect its figurative $200 with a new partnership announced Friday by Electronic Arts and Hasbro to create digital versions of many of the classic board games generations have grown up on. The agreement grants EA the exclusive w...
More than 1 million gamers have plunked down their $60 to preorder one of the most anticipated video games this year, "Halo 3," Microsoft announced Thursday. With a little more than one month to go before the game's release Sept. 25 on the Xbox 360, the latest installment in the "Halo" franchise has...
President Bush signed into law Thursday the America Competes Act, designed to boost research and education in math and the sciences through a funding package of about $42 billion. The bill aims to bolster basic research in the physical sciences, to improve instruction in math at the elementary and m...
This week, Dr. Gordon Lithgow, associate professor at the Buck Institute, showed up in San Francisco and spoke to a packed house on aging, new technologies and why interdisciplinary connections are helping to unravel the mysteries of growing old. While politics often slows down progress, computer sc...
Microsoft, Google and other members of the White Spaces Coalition received a blow last week when the Federal Communications Commission rejected the device they proposed to allow wireless Internet transmissions over unused TV spectrum. Known as a "white space device," the technology is intended to ta...
The same week the world learned Microsoft had shaved $50 off the price of its Xbox 360 next-generation gaming console, the company also rolled out refreshed versions of its Xbox 360 Premium models. Consumers picking up the consoles from now on will receive a high-definition multimedia interface port...
New York Times blogger Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of the bestseller Freakonomics, might get more than he bargained for in response to a question he posted on Wednesday: "If you were a terrorist, how would you attack?" Posed in the spirit of "public service," Levitt writes, the question is meant to g...
It's now a well-known fact that on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog, but when it comes to Internet telephony, the bigger concern is that no one might know where you are either. Dial 911 for emergency assistance, and you could be out of luck, as some well-publicized lawsuits have shown. Voice ...
Internet security research firm Sophos has warned of a massive spam campaign it has detected within the past 24 hours. The spamming operation, known as a "pump and dump," was designed to boost the share price of company that sells wireless products to young people, according to Sophos. "On Tuesday, ...
Parents who have eagerly sat their infants in front of TVs playing DVDs and TV shows designed to boost their intelligence may want to rethink their plans, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Pediatrics. The so-called education DVDs and shows aimed at babies ages 8 to 16 months th...
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