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Two independent groups seeking to win a private, US$10 million space-travel contest known as the X Prize have announced they are closer to meeting the terms for the prize, with back-to-back, manned flights planned for the fall. The SpaceShipOne team, which achieved mankind's first private space flig...

Consumer devices, such as entertainment systems and home security products, are gaining intelligence and becoming more PC-like. As this occurs, users want to connect them to home local area networks and automate processes, such as moving music files from PCs to stereos or turning lights on and off. ...

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other parties with a stake in the wars over peer-to-peer (P2P) software should meet with commercial P2P industry companies to talk about the so-called INDUCE Act. This is the point of view expressed by StreamCast Networks CEO Mike Weiss, one of several industry leaders who ...

Telecom and cable giants are moving quickly to keep up with innovations and opportunities surrounding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), one of the latest technology trends to draw aggressive strategies from companies such as AT&T and Verizon. As the larger, more traditional telecom and cable ...

Don't click on those alleged Osama bin Laden "suicide" pictures. The pictures are a hoax. They connect curious viewers to a damaging "Trojan horse" program. Word about the images spread fast late last week and through the weekend via Usenet postings, instead of the usual method of attaching them to ...

Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...

Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to m...

Apple and Motorola announced Monday that they will allow iTunes music store customers to transfer songs onto MP3-enabled Motorola phones. The Motorola phones will be part of Motorola's next generation of phones due early next year. Users will be able to download iTunes music through or Bluetooth wir...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Wireless Connectivity Becoming BMOC

College students across the U.S. are majoring in a new technology: wireless connectivity. It is a subject they are learning hands-on and using everywhere they go on campus. Of course, wireless connectivity is not a credit-bearing subject on a long list of prerequisites to earn their degrees. Instead...

Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...

Seagate Technology today announced it has introduced a five-year warranty, effective immediately, on every Seagate internal PC, notebook and enterprise hard drive shipped through its distribution and retail channels throughout the world.

A new jacket from Rosner GmbH, a German clothing firm, combines a 128 MB MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar. The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone tucked into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetoo...

The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.

Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD's Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to m...

SECURITY ALERT

Bin Laden Suicide Virus: Latest Internet Hoax

An online security firm warned Saturday that the latest Internet virus was using spectacular claims about terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden to trick people into infecting their own computers.


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