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What do you get when you cross a posse of anti-corporate "consumer advocates" with an innovative new e-mail service that most beta testers enjoy? Trouble, as evidenced by the recent hysterics over Google's new Gmail service. At first blush, the idea of an e-mail host scanning all incoming mail -- as...
Chip challenger AMD marked the one-year anniversary of its Opteron processor this week, touting the chip's 64-bit computing capabilities and indicating it will expand its market to the four-way server datacenter sector as well. The company also said demand has driven top original equipment manufactu...
A new group committed to evangelizing grid computing formed this week, with its inaugural roster boasting such high-tech heavy hitters as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NEC, Fujitsu Siemens and HP. But despite the group's support from so many big names, neither IBM nor Microsoft has joined this alli...
In response to growing interest in and deployment of Web services and similar business process technologies, IBM has announced new software and services designed to make IT infrastructures more modular and flexible. The company said it wants to help its customers build "service-oriented architecture...
Serious Internet security warnings are rushing in from a variety of sources, indicating that the Internet's underpinnings could come under attack and that conditions are ripe for a worm attack as well. The most recent security alert came from the United Kingdom, where the government warned of a crit...
The Better Business Bureau this week issued a national warning about 321 Studios, a developer of DVD copying, backup and repair software that is causing controversy in U.S. federal courts and in Hollywood. The BBB, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, issued the consumer advisory against the company...
The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn its offer of amnesty to file-sharers. Previously, the group had agreed not to sue individuals who would pledge to stop trading copyrighted music through peer-to-peer services and applications. However, the RIAA also diverged from its standa...
Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals. The company said the Xsan -- priced at less...
On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century. Whether Gra...
U.S. residents not only are accessing the Internet via high-speed broadband connections more than previously presumed, but also are moving from dial-up access to mostly DSL or cable broadband more quickly than ever as they put performance at the top of their priority list, according to the latest Pe...
An increase in suspicious activity last weekend has Internet security experts bracing for what some analysts warn could be the next big worm attack worldwide. Virus monitors spent the weekend watching an increased level of activity that experts said could be the start of a Blaster-like attack. A spo...
A few years ago, the History Channel had a program that covered great military disasters. One was the on the French Maginot Line. This was a line of supposedly impregnable forts that were put in place to prevent invasion by Germany after World War I. This solution was monumental in cost and it faile...
Barcodes, those familiar sets of lines on items from DVDs to refrigerators, eventually may go the way of the typewriter, the black-and-white television and the dodo. Radio Frequency Identification technology promises to replace bar coding and make it easier for suppliers, distributors and retailers ...
A new study released this week indicates that nearly 28 "spyware" items infest each PC, demonstrating the broad proliferation of the secret software, researchers said. Spyware is a rapidly proliferating type of software that covertly forwards information about a computer user's online activities to ...
Paired with printing specialist Toppan, Sony has announced a new, Blu-Ray-based disc capable of holding 25 GB of high-definition programming through digital information's prehistoric precursor: paper. Sony said its new optical data storage medium, to be detailed next week at a storage industry confe...
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