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Security firm Sophos once again has named the U.S. as thebiggest spam-producing nation in the world in a recent report. Sophos alsohighlighted the growing problem of compromisedcomputers, or "zombies," as conduits for theunwanted e-mail ...
A Chinese group announced it began operating what it says is the world's biggest next-generation Internet network over the weekend, boosting data transmission speeds and bringing more Internet protocol (IP) address possibilities to a region sorely lacking them The move to Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) -- which delivers greater capacity than to...
Google helped shut down a spreading computer worm this week by denying the malicious software's use of its search engine, but the Santy.A worm still marks a troubling trend toward attack via Web sites and search technology, security experts warned Santy.A started spreading Tuesday and attempted to exploit a vulnerability in the phpBB bulletin board...
Software giant Microsoft announced an extension of itstechnology and cross-licensing deal with accessinfrastructure solutions specialist Citrix, in a showof support for both the smaller software company andWindows Terminal Server The five-year agreement, which was expected in the industrygiven the companies' past work on the Citrix MetaFrameaccess ...
In a bid to display its suitability for consumer users,antivirus giant Trend Micro has announced it will provideantivirus scanning and cleaning protection forMicrosoft's MSN Hotmail Internet e-mail customers, whonumber nearly 190 million. Such services had been provided by McAfee Trend Micro, based in Japan with U.S. headquartersin Cupertino, Calif...
Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web The hole was discovered by security researchers at Rice University and reported this week by the New York Times. Google says it ...
IBM said today that its bet on blade server technology is paying off, announcing that more than 100 companies had acquired its eServer BladeCenter specification since the blade server base technology was made available last September IBM, which opened its BladeCenter design specification with Intel, called the rapidly growing support evidence that ...
Faced with antiquated technical issues and political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week contemplated lifting the ban on cellular telephone use on aircraft The Commission proposed relaxing the current ban on wireless phone use during flights that was intended to avoid interference with both terrestrial and airplane commu...
They've become another symbol of the holiday season -- the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites This year's malicious software, or malware, arrived yesterday in the form of a new Zafi worm variant, Zafi.D, which purports to bear happy holidays but is reall...
Two of the world's largest electronics makers, Samsungand Sony, announced today a broad cross-licensingagreement that will allow each company to take advantage of the other's technology The companies, which reported negotiating the dealfor about a year, said they would bothbenefit from one another's substantial patentportfolios. They highlighted di...
AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power Chip giant Intel has already produced processors with so-called strained silicon technology that offsets power and heat problems, but the AMD-IBM advance draws ...
With Yahoo's announcement of a free desktop search tool to be available early next year, and other search engine and software companies such as AOL, Ask Jeeves, Microsoft and others delivering similar technology, the feature is becoming a standard part of search All of the companies lag behind Google in market share and rollout of desktop search, w...
Siemens Communications claimed a historic wireless speed record this week, touting that its Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology allowed it to reach a wireless data transfer rate of 1 gigabit per second, which is 20 times the speed of today's wireless local area network (WLAN) While the speed mark was a significant demonstra...
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced it was pumping US$3 billion into high-speed wireless network partnerships with Motorola, Lucent and Nortel, hoping that more bandwidth and speed will let it generate more revenue from users The deal was a must for Motorola, which won extension of its agreement with Sprint through 2006 and will supply its CDMA ...
Cisco today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu The company announced that its "IP NGN" -- IP Next-Generation Networks -- architecture was pushing network convergence to provide various voice, video and wireless capabilities and controls....
Shawn Fanning's latest peer-to-peer (P2P) venture, Snocap, may have a long way to go to prove its success in the current online music landscape. The practice of file sharing, which has grown on free services such as Kazaa and Morpheus inspired by Fanning's earlier Napster venture, has also gone legitimate with a variety of licensed online music services from Apple, Sony and many others...
Two weeks before its regularly scheduled round of security updates for Windows, Microsoft released an out-of-cycle patch for its Internet Explorer browser in response to a month-old critical hole The vulnerability -- an HTML handling issue referred to as an "iframe" flaw that affects mostly older versions of the Windows operating system -- is not a...
The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government The group, which has been critical of content and technology providers including Yahoo, Goo...
The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD to define the next generation DVD format shows no signs of cooling off. While electronics and computer companies such as Sony, Dell and HP back the Blu-ray specification, proponents of the rival high-definition HD DVD format, including NEC and Toshiba, can now claim movie support from four of the five major Hollywood film studios...
Although it is poised to bring some competition to the mobile gaming world with the PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony seems more intensely focused on its PlayStation console and the silicon for the next-generation PlayStation3 With IBM and Toshiba, Sony announced a new electronics chip codenamed "Cell" that will leverage multi-core processing to pow...
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