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The quest for more bandwidth is neverending, so soon after vendors make one technical advance, they move on to the next. With 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless LANs now poised to gain a lion's share of product shipments, vendors are examining ways to push the bandwidth plateau past the 100 Mbps mark. Proprie...
Kaspersky Labs has detected Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor Trojan for PDAs running under PocketPC, a Microsoft handheld operating system originally known as Windows CE. Brador is a classic Trojan backdoor program: It opens the infected machine for remote administration.
Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major software update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security se...
As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approa...
Viruses finally reached out and touched handheld computers Thursday with Symantec and Kaspersky Labs reporting a backdoor Trojan horse program that can take control of a mobile device. The program, known as Backdoor.Brador.A, attacks PDAs running the Windows CE operating system. Once installed, the ...
Last weekend, hundreds of die-hard fans gathered at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas to see the stars and mingle with other sci-fi-minded folks. Costumes and attitudes aptly demonstrated their commitment to the Star Trek philosophy, which has many similarities to American ideals. When asked to ...
IBM announced that it will not use its patents against Linux, and it encouraged other software companies to make the same vow. As the owner of 60 patents on which the Linux core might infringe, IBM could wreak havoc on Linux if it chose to do so. The new promise, delivered at LinuxWorld, emphasizes ...
Microsoft's long-awaited and much-delayed update to its Windows operating system -- officially called Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- is finally ready and will be released to consumers later this month, the company said Thursday. Windows Service Pack 2 includes various security updates meant to fix som...
TiVo, one of the initial creators of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified TiVo's technology protection of digital broadcast television. The FCC determined that digital broadcast television content shoul...
Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...
Phishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or "spoofed," e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need...
On the morning of September 22, 1989, in Charleston, South Carolina, there was no electricity or running water. There was no way to call to complain or find out when services would resume, because the telephones also were not working. Transportation options were limited to walking, riding a bicycle ...
Organizers of the CeBit America computer industry trade show announced that they have canceled the June 2005 event because of declining attendance. The show is the second major technology event to be called off. In June the Comdex show was canceled for the same reason. Gartner analyst Martin Reynold...
Apple FairPlay "consumer control" technology prevents people from playing iTunes tracks, which cost a dollar per track, on players Apple doesn't like, which is just about everything -- except iPods, of course. Apple wouldn't deal with RealNetworks to allow music from the RealPlayer music store to be...
With the close of part one of this column, my first reaction was to toss my cell phone from the car, to teach it who was in control. But the thought of the look on my bookkeeper's face when I would explain why I needed a new phone kept me from enjoying the experiment in high-speed trajectories. I re...
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