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In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals. In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the publi...
In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals. In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the publi...
ATI Technologies, the three-dimensional graphics pioneer, today announced HyperMemory, a technology that allows a PC to use system memory for graphics processing. HyperMemory uses the high-speed bi-directional data transfer capabilities of PCI Express to store and access graphics data in system memo...
When politicians express interest in designing technology standards, the nation's tech community should be greatly concerned and react appropriately. One of those times is now and the issue is radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID tags are like the bar codes on a cereal box but different ...
At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons. Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a c...
Eastman Kodak and IBM will team up to develop new image sensors for digital cameras and camera phones, Kodak said in a statment. The agreement seeks to combine Kodak's image sensor technology with IBM's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing expertise. Kodak hopes to use the techn...
Just as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a significant competitor to traditional telephone services and has grown more pervasive in U.S. homes and businesses, television via high-speed Internet is becoming a reality as both broadband and competition grow. Evidence of the broadband ...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement. The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to X...
Financial services companies might be unwitting contributors to the nation's identity theft problem, according to a report from Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft costs American businesses US$50 billion to $60 billion a ye...
Mazda and NEC today announced that Mazda will start testing grid-computing technology. For the trial, NEC will incorporate the technology into Mazda's core business systems to use the distributed IT resources of many servers as one virtual server. This trial is a part of the grid-computing project p...
Microsoft's monthly security update was highlighted this week by a JPEG-handling vulnerability that could allow pictures in the format to provide attackers access to targeted machines. Microsoft also announced an "important" code-execution vulnerability in a WordPerfect 5.x converter, but rated the ...
By selling "product" at half price, RealNetworks has climbed into second place in the corporate music market dominated by Apple. That was Real's claim at the conclusion of its 49-cents-a-pop download offer, under which it sold three million tracks to spotlight its Harmony application that lets songs...
IMlogic today released free software to help companies fight copyright piracy, avoid lawsuits from illegal file sharing and prevent damage from viruses and worms. IM Detector Pro is designed to help corporations detect and block unmanaged instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and Voice over Int...
Nokia said that it has applied for membership in the SD Card Association and has signed a licensing agreement for enabling the use of SD memory cards in its devices. According to a statement, Nokia will continue to support MultiMediaCards (MMC) that are currently widely used in Nokia's mobile device...
As students all across the United States were getting ready to head back to school, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was busy beefing up its prolonged attack on consumer fair use rights and emerging consumer technologies. In a quietly-submitted letter dated August 16, 2004, lawye...
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