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This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the t...
A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission. A fourth variation of the spam attac...
After a ban in Ireland and the UK, as well as an Adults Only rating from the U.S. Entertainment Software Ratings Board, Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games, said Thursday it has temporarily suspended the release of "Manhunt 2" for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable video game syste...
Three new robotic vehicles designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will embark on an expedition next month to search for life on the Arctic Ocean floor. The vehicles -- two autonomous underwater vehicles and a tethered, remote controlled sampling system -- were designed specifi...
It goes without saying that most IT shops operate in a high-stress, high-workload environment. As technologists, we have limited budgets, limited staff, and dozens of projects on our plate -- it often feels like there aren't enough hours in the day just to keep up with today's workload, never mind p...
The world of high performance computing is expanding every day, particularly in the fields of geosciences, molecular biology and medical diagnostics, where scientists are increasingly turning to supercomputers to crunch massive amounts of data via complex simulations and applications. Graphics proce...
Sony has bet its PlayStation 3 fortunes on some 380 new games coming to store shelves in 2008 Kaz Hirai reportedly told just over 7,000 shareholders Thursday at the company's 90th annual shareholder meeting held in Tokyo. The PS3 maker believes the new titles will boost sales of the next-generation ...
Ohio's data theft problem has grown beyond the scope of the information originally provided by state officials. It was announced last week that a data device containing state workers' personal info had been given to an Ohio state intern who reported it missing after his vehicle was broken into. At t...
Every time Congress has passed legislation to ease stem cell restrictions in recent years, President Bush has vowed he would veto the bill, and that's just what he did again on Wednesday. "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers -- for the first time in our history -- to s...
French government officials reportedly may no longer use BlackBerry devices to send and receive e-mail. Citing security concerns -- specifically, snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency -- French government security experts have reportedly banned the ubiquitous devices in ministries and the pr...
Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are...
Gateway, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, announced the recall of some 14,000 notebook computer batteries. Laptop PCs with the defective batteries can overheat and pose a fire hazard for consumers, the organizations said. "Gateway is working with its suppliers to cove...
U.S. Department of Homeland Security CIO Scott Charbo was in the hot seat Wednesday, testifying before a Congressional subcommittee on the hundreds of security breaches that have occurred at various areas within his organization in the last couple of years. Some reports pin the number around 800, an...
Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors' desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google. News of the agreement was included in an U.S. Department of Justice report on Microsoft's compliance with final judgments to the U.S. versus Micr...
There are lots of disk defraggers in the market, but Raxco PerfectDisk is one of the best that I've seen to date. Now the Gaithersburg, Md., company is expanding the scope of its flagship product to further improve computer performance and security. Raxco's new product, PerfectDisk Rx Suite, is buil...
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