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As we move into market recovery, marketing budgets once again are being funded, and I thought it would be good to look at the mistakes made by technology companies in the past. While this is a painful trip down memory lane for many, my hope is that this will keep the firms from making the same mista...
In today's world of warnings, dangers and the need for safety precautions, even surfing the Internet for business or pleasure is fraught with hazards. Despite the growing epidemic of spyware infections, many computer users remain unfazed by the call to arms in the fight for safer computing practices...
An Indianapolis bail bondsman is looking to cash in on the John Kerry-John Edwards Democratic presidential ticket by selling his www.kerryedwards.com site to the highest bidder, with a starting price of US$150,000. But the man, who has owned rights to the Internet address for nearly two years, is no...
Experts at Sophos have warned computer users that a file posing as photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden has killed himself is in fact infected by the Hackarmy Trojan horse. Thousands of messages have been posted onto internet message boards and usenet newsgroups claiming that journalists from ...
In just a few short months, Americans will decide who they want to be president. Speculation abounds, but a better read on who is more likely to win -- a futures market in politics -- may be found at sites like Tradesports.com. Futures markets, where people bet on results of various outcomes, can of...
Nextel Communications posted large gains yesterday as the Reston-based company and other leading cellular phone providers reported growth in new subscribers. Nextel reported its ninth consecutive profitable quarter on a large increase in revenue. It is the smallest of the six national carriers but g...
Security experts are praising the international bust of a Russian Internet extortion ring, but they also warn that cyber strong-arm schemes -- which use viruses, worms, trojans and the threat of denial of service (DoS) attacks -- are increasing and spreading to different targets, including e-commerc...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has taken its first steps towards implementing the next generation of internet protocol (IP), by adding IPv6 addresses to the DNS root server system. IPv6 can provide trillions more addresses than the IPv4 standard currently in use toda...
The simple ding-a-ling heard when an incoming call arrives is being replaced by a bevy of Top 10 tunes. Ring tones -- simple notes or 30-second clips of popular songs -- have emerged as a popular value-added data service for wireless carriers. "One cannot underestimate the interest consumers, especi...
Morpheus owner StreamCast Networks has signed a deal with Sovereign Artists and SML under which tracks from the rock band Heart's "Jupiter's Darling" album are being offered on Morpheus in SML's Weed format. Each track is in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format and comes wrapped with Microsoft's d...
I am honored to be invited to write for MacNewsWorld. As one who is daily entrenched in Linux and high performance computing, it may be expected that I would write about the battle between Linux and Windows, PowerPC and Intel. But I do that for a living. I need a break, a creative outlet for those t...
Two of the world's largest computer and software companies have been sued by UK-based BTG International for patent infringement over Web-enabled software update and other technologies. BTG, a UK-based intellectual property and technology development company, along with New York-based Teleshuttle, fi...
Thanks to the combined powers of music and the Internet, anywhere between 8 million and 9.5 million people around the world are logged on to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at any given moment. At a conservative estimate, some 1 billion files are being swapped online between and among music lover...
The WiFi Alliance, a global nonprofit organizatin made up of 200 member companies that support the IEEE 802.11, or WiFi, wireless standard, has announced a new, more stringent policy on interoperability for products to obtain its WiFi certification. The policy is effective immediately and threatens ...
Intel today expanded the Intel Pentium M processor and Intel Celeron M processor families with products aimed at the notebook, subnotebook and tablet PC segments that represent small mobile PCs typically weighing around three pounds. Intel's new offerings include the Intel Pentium M processor Low Vo...
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