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With a mission squarely focused on securing the Internet through public policy, private industry participation and education, a dozen top security companies have formed the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, announced at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. The companies, including...
In what could be a blueprint for the future of sharing commercial music on the Internet, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Wednesday released a white paper outlining a scheme to squelch squabbles between the music industry and online peer-to-peer networks over music file-s...
Through the years, some malicious computer programs have come to be known as viruses. Dr. Fred Cohen, a principal analyst with market research firm Burton Group, coined the term when he was working as a graduate student at the University of Southern California in the early 1980s. "There was a resemb...
Despite the misgivings of smaller domain-name registrars that stand to lose revenue and control over domain names that expire, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering approving a controversial service by VeriSign. At its meetings to be held in Rome, Italy, next...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) sellers anxious to keep offering voice and data services using the Internet are asking the federal government to continue to refrain from regulating the industry. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kept VoIP free of the same regulatory requirements an...
As the writer of several top-20 MP3.com hits last year, Paul Korda's perspective on the convergence of technology and music comes from many years of working as a musician and songwriter. He has seen the old technology meet the new -- and has witnessed the transformation of monolithic Big Music into ...
A new study by a researcher at Cornell University indicates people are more likely to be truthful in e-mail communications than in other media or even in face-to-face conversations. The report, to be unveiled in detail at a human-computer interface conference in Vienna, Austria, this spring, is beli...
Not long ago, TechNewsWorld published a story describing divergent conclusions reached by two recent studies of Web server market share. One, the latest in an ongoing series conducted by UK-based Netcraft, cast its net wide and surveyed a sample of more than 45 million Web sites. It concluded that o...
Microsoft has made available a beta version of its forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2, due in full form in the middle of this year. The beta is currently available to testers who will get a glimpse of the major security upgrade that many liken to an entirely new operating system. The new Service ...
At the RSA security conference in San Francisco Tuesday, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced a new, security-enhanced Alchemy Au1550 network processor aimed at bolstering security without bogging down servers and applications. AMD said the Au1550 -- armed to support both SSL and IPsec virtual...
When I first moved into management, I was a big fan of outsourcing. It has huge advantages if your eye is on the next higher job. It removes -- almost immediately -- the vast complexities of managing lots of people, and in most countries that includes racial issues, sexual issues, benefits, unions, ...
In what's been called the "Academy Awards for Engineers," four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize tonight at a dinner in Washington, D.C. Sharing the $500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. ...
IBM and Nokia have unveiled the latest 9500 Communicator -- a BlackBerry-like handheld capable of running IBM and other enterprise office software applications on Nokia's Symbian operating system. IDC analyst Alex Slawsby told TechNewsWorld that although the new Communicator offers unparalleled mobi...
Beige boxes may still be the norm for lots of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and som...
Move over, parental warning labels for explicit lyrics and violence, there's something more important on the industry's agenda: preventing piracy. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced with intellectual property purveyors -- including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),...
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