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State attorneys general meeting in Washington, D.C., this week may be weighing a move to crack down on makers of Internet file-sharing software. A document obtained by TechNewsWorld titled "Draft Attorneys General Letter to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Software Manufacturers and Distributors (Californi...
With half a billion copies of its Reader document software in use, Adobe has shown its strength in the digital dimension. But the company now is committing more to government agencies, businesses and other organizations that are forced through regulation, mandate or competition to maintain use of ha...
In addition to assigning traditional clock speeds to processors, Intel is rumored to be preparing to assign performance names to its chips. But in discussions with TechNewsWorld, an industry analyst and Intel company insider have indicated those reports are incorrect. When asked about a new performa...
Researchers in North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today's high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) connections seem lethargic. The protocol is named BIC-TCP, which stands for Binary Increase Congest...
The recent spate of computer worms have included elements of spamming and a supposed battle of words between different malware authors, but the real intent of the dueling viruses is to deny site availability to online gaming companies and other sites that have not complied with Russian mobsters' dem...
As I write this column, I am at an amazing conference session full of attendees who are influencing the world. Ranging from marketing executives to media consultants to top journalists, these people have influence over the perceptions that shape our reality. This is history in the making, and I'm in...
In this column in the coming months, I will be writing about people with vision in the area of music, the arts and the technical arts. Specifically, I'll focus on what they have created, their views of now and the future, and what motivates them to create. I hope that by writing about unique people ...
Propose a technology that will stem the flow of unwanted e-mail spam, and the industry will definitely listen -- but if it's Microsoft that is doing the proposing, suspicion and fear follow that interest. Such is the case with Microsoft's proposal for a caller ID system for e-mail that would diminis...
A new, national report by comScore Networks indicates broadband Internet access is ready to overtake dial-up access as the top online subscription service in major metro markets in the United States. The study, released this week in the Reston, Virginia-based company's fourth-quarter market-share re...
A group of major technology players has announced an initiative to get a top-level domain (TLD) -- such as .com, .net and .org -- specifically for mobile sites to bridge the Internet and mobile worlds. Microsoft, Nokia, Vodafone, HP, Orange, Samsung, Sun and the GSM Association are applying for the ...
Designing death is not a simple matter. Consider the following. You spend hours, days, weeks playing in an online universe populated by characters from the Star Wars saga, developing your character's skills until you are a mighty hero. Then one day you take on one too many bad guys at once, and your...
A measure aimed at countering product piracy of all sorts -- from digital music to ladies' handbags -- has produced a sour aftermath following its approval by the European Parliament this week. Supporters as well as opponents had something critical to say about the compromise measure that appears to...
Microsoft is probably glad its latest monthly round of software patches is relatively mundane, with three separate holes in Outlook 2002, MSN Messenger and Windows Server 2000 service packs all rated as medium-level threats. There was some concern that the Outlook 2002 hole -- addressed in an Office...
Last week, a U.S. court invalidated key telecommunications regulations created by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This is the third time the Commission's rules have been struck down, making it imperative that the Bush Administration act to fix the nation's telecommunications mess. In it...
Law enforcement officials are moving forward with a controversial antiterrorism database on the state level as the federal government is expanding the amount of information collected and retained about private citizens. This week, authorities disclosed that the state of Wisconsin had joined the Mult...
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