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It was a time-tested tactic during ancient Roman times for generals to embrace their adversaries and bring them into the fold when they represented significant threats to the Empire that they could not otherwise defend against. A modern variation of this practice is becoming common across the media ...
Speculation surrounding a new Sony PlayStation 3 model sporting an 80 GB hard disk drive has gone into overdrive once again after the company's South Korean unit announced the arrival of the newest addition to the console line on its Web site. The system, according to Sony Korea, will become availab...
After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. W...
IBM formally launched its Power6 microprocessor Monday, billing the new chip as the fastest ever built and saying it will enable servers to process data twice as fast while using less electricity. The Power6 dual-core processor has a clock speed of 4.7 GHz and offers 8 megabytes of L2 cache -- four ...
While the Internet is widely considered one of the most democratizing tools in history, there still remain countries where the free flow of information over the World Wide Web is restricted. In fact, at least 25 countries block Web sites for political, social or other reasons, with governments contr...
Last week was busy: Microsoft supposedly threatened open source with patent infringement, and it supposedly said Linux was dead. If that didn't piss off enough people, Engadget falsely reported delays for Leopard and the iPhone, trashing Apple's stock, and if there was anyone in tech not pissed off...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life. Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstand...
After three weeks of coordinated cyberattacks on Estonian Web sites, NATO has reportedly sent an official to the country to help investigate. About 1 million computers worldwide were reportedly used to conduct the denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government and corporate Web sites, swamping the...
AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about "Griffin," the company's code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, as well as its "Puma" platform for notebook computers. Expected to debut in laptops in the latter half of 2008, the chip and platform will go into production lat...
Executives of Web 2.0 companies and some members of Congress are pressing for a reversal of the Pentagon's decision to block access to several popular Web sites on military networks. The decision, abruptly made this week, cuts off troops' access to such sites as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, IFilm, St...
With e-mail's value as a malware delivery agent on the decline, writers of malicious software have boosted their efforts to infect Web sites with their nasty payloads. Thousands of malicious Web sites are created on a daily basis to steal information from unsuspecting visitors or plant insidious sof...
Four multinational corporations, five global banks, sixteen cities and former President Bill Clinton have formed a consortium dedicated to retrofitting buildings in order to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, according to an announcement from the Clinton Foundation Wednesday dur...
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday lifted a preliminary injunction against Google preventing it from displaying thumbnail versions of sexually explicit images owned by adult site Perfect 10. The thumbnail images in question are miniature representations of Perfect 10 photos that are ...
Simplicity has been an important element in Google's success in the online search world. However, as the company has grown and attempted myriad forays into new ways of finding and presenting information -- images, video, news, maps, etc. -- it has created "silos," perhaps threatening that very simpl...
When billionaire Charles Simonyi blasted off into space for a visit to the International Space Station last month, he not only made history as the fifth private citizen to fly into orbit. He also fulfilled what for many is a lifelong dream: To explore the final frontier. The prospect of traveling in...
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