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The New Year may bring yet another threat from the Sober family of worms, according to security researchers who say a recently discovered variant of the worm contains code that could unleash a new round of attacks on Jan. 5, 2006. Security firm iDefense, which is owned by VeriSign, said a variant of...
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will total US$235 billion in 2005, a 6.9 percent increase from 2004, according to the latest Gartner Group data. This will be the first time that the semiconductor industry has surpassed the previous record-setting year in 2000 when revenue reached $223 billion. "Stro...
With little fanfare, Google yesterday launched yet another beta service related to its mapping products. The Google Transit Trip Planner targets consumers who take the bus. Analysts said the new service could pay advertising dividends for the search giant. Google said its new Google Labs service ena...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rocked the political world this week with the appointment of Susan Kennedy, a Democrat and Public Utilities Commissioner (PUC) as his chief of staff. Republicans might feel snubbed, but Kennedy's appointment is good for the technology sector. A thriving technol...
The only figure that is larger than the 81 percent of home PCs that lack critical security applications such as anti-virus, anti-spyware or firewall software is the 83 percent of home PC users who falsely believe they are safe from online theft of information and identity, according to AOL's latest ...
Looking to maintain its competitive advantage for years to come, Intel yesterday said it has developed a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor. The transistor uses new materials that could form the basis of Intel's microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second h...
Listen. Do you hear that yowling? No. That's not your neighbor's cat in heat. It's mainstream computer makers taking a gander at the latest margin figures on PCs. With the average price of a computer hovering around US$675 and the probability that $250 "system specials" will be needed to boost holid...
Sony BMG's overzealous moves to insert digital rights management into its music CDs is causing the company more trouble. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the non-profit Internet rights group, said that software Sony embedded into 27 CD titles on sale in the United States and Canada opens a hole t...
A new breed of malicious IM bots are duping users into activating and spreading IM worm payloads with interactive chat, according to IMLogic. A malicious bot dubbed "IM.Myspace04.AIM" is being broadcast over the AOL Instant Messaging network. Once one computer is infected, the bot targets its next v...
A new study released this week by Boston-based Strategy Analytics offers an ominous warning -- companies focused on supplying light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for liquid crystal displays (LCD) and keypad backlighting functions will see their revenues plummet an astounding 41 percent in the next three ye...
Sun plans to roll out its first servers based on the new multicore UltraSPARC T1 today. The company has its sights set on gaining market share in sectors dominated by x86 machines. Formerly code-named Niagara, Sun has been playing up the new eight-core processor for more than a year and officially i...
Threats from malware -- viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and such -- climbed 48 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year, according to the annual Sophos Security Threat Management Report. The report, expected to be released today and a copy of which was obtained by TechNewsWorld, noted that th...
Industry insiders think it's going to be a big holiday season for Bluetooth wireless technology -- which is showing up in a wide range of gadgets, from mobile phones to audio players to personal digital assistants to personal computer keyboards and even cars. Christophe Dissaux, executive vice presi...
IBM announced its latest "self-healing" software, touting a sidestep to IT staff-stealing glitches and other outages through managed monitoring, application manager, and multi-platform system automation software. Big Blue said by freeing IT teams from finding and fixing glitches in typical, sophisti...
An Internet Explorer bug has put Google users at risk of a phishing attack, according to a security researcher in Israel. Matan Gillon published an article detailing a method for exploiting an unpatched Internet Explorer flaw. The flaw could allow hackers entrance into computers running Google's des...
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