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Antivirus company Sophos's virus researchers reported the first ever virus to infect the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system. The Duts virus (W32/Duts-A) is able to infect PDAs running the Pocket PC operating system, and it was reportedly written by the 29A virus writing gang. This is the same grou...
3GSM makes its debut in the United States today as AT&T Wireless announces the rollout of its initial third-generation broadband mobile communications offering in Seattle, Phoenix, Detroit and San Francisco. The new U.S. service, launched ahead of schedule, brings the number of live 3GSM network...
Microsoft has formed a new Media/Entertainment & Technology Convergence Group, a move analysts say is calculated to build trust between the Redmond, Washington, technology giant and the media and entertainment industries. "Clearly Microsoft is trying to reach out to the companies that own rights...
More and more digital devices are being put in homes as a result of consumers doing such things as moving audio files from PCs to home entertainment systems. In response to the upswing in demand for networked services in the home, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance is moving to make the technology to c...
One prominent computer hacker has been sentenced and a suspected hacker was indicted in the past week, both of them saying their cyber exploits were designed to point out security deficiencies. Infamous hacker Adrian Lamo, 23, who was known as "the helpful hacker" because he reported his exploits to...
I've been watching as a number of security expert's call for the companies to replace Internet Explorer (IE) and the follow-up pieces that state, with the implication that the companies must be stupid, that they aren't following that advice. I think this reflects more on how far removed many of thes...
Since wireless phones have become so inexpensive and easy to use, their use is rapidly rising in corporations. While the phones can deliver alluring productivity benefits, they also can present a new security risk: Corporate assets, such as new products, manufacturing floor layouts, and business pla...
The entertainment industry, with the Big Five record labels and major movie studios to the fore, is one of the wealthiest corporate sectors in the world. And yet it's in deep trouble, or so it says, the latest complaints emanating from Big Music spokesman Mitch Bainwol in a letter to the US Senate d...
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was dubbed a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture in London today. The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of ...
Those who get caught stealing personal identity information to commit theft or fraud -- whether by sifting through trash or posting bogus Web sites on the Internet to trick users into divulging data -- will be facing more time in jail thanks to a new federal law. The Identity Theft Penalty Enhanceme...
At this perplexing time in the evolution of mankind, when morality is under extreme magnification, it will be a welcome relief today to be able to escape those dilemmas for a future one -- that being robots who kill. Being the underlying theme of the potential summer blockbuster movie, "I, Robot," t...
In an effort to tailor their various instant messaging (IM) services for better use by enterprise and remove the interoperability issues that have precluded a bigger business embrace of real-time messaging, Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo today announced connectivity among the competing services...
Aura, a NASA mission dedicated to the health of Earth's atmosphere, successfully launched today at 3:01:59 a.m. Pacific Time from the Western Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base, aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. Spacecraft separation occurred at 4:06 a.m. Pacific Time, inserting Aura into a 438-mile ...
In an apparent move to avoid the mistakes made by the recording industry in managing digital forms of its intellectual property, two movie studios have cut a deal with several major technology companies -- including Microsoft and IBM -- to develop a scheme that will allow limited copying of next-gen...
The Senate Commerce Committee will soon vote on a bill to bar states from meddling with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows the Internet to be used like a telephone. The bill by Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) is one of many reactions to a growing movement from states and other pro-...
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