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Business executives often can be found in airports pecking away at their BlackBerry devices or laptop computers, checking e-mails, reserving their next plane tickets or just surfing the Web. Now, a San Francisco start-up hopes to recreate that scene on freeways by turning cars into WiFi hotspots Autonet Mobile plans to unveil its Internet service p...
Social networking is meeting an unfriendly visitor -- social engineering Social engineering tactics -- scams that depend on user-interaction to execute an attack against them -- rose dramatically in 2006....
In what marks one of the new year's first public relations blunders,Microsoft's move to buddy up with bloggers has backfired The software giant recently gave dozens of expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system to bloggers. Instead of goodwill, the gesture generated contention in the blogging community....
Professional cyberthieves and organized crime rings are looking to cash in on stolen identities, and are releasing an increasing amount of malware in the process There are more than 217,000 types of known security threats in the wild and probably thousands more that researchers haven't even identified yet, according toMcAfee Avert Labs....
Ford is jumping on the Bluetooth bandwagon, and it is betting on Microsoft to help it gain momentum. The companies have reached a deal to put the software giant's technology into some Ford cars, according to a Wall Street Journal report Microsoft's Sync, which includes hands-free Bluetooth wireless and an in-vehicle operating system, will become an...
Beware of e-mails with the subject line "Happy New Year!" VeriSign is warning that the message may appear to come from a well-wisher but actually contains a worm that could invade your computer and use it for malicious purposes....
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced that he will propose nearly US$95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative The initiative would provide funding for major projects aimed at growing California's economic strength in key innovation sectors, including cleantech, biotech and nan...
Samsung Electronics has developed a docking station complete with a fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month. Samsung plans to launch the product at the end of 2007 A fuel cell is an electronic device similar to a battery that produces electricity from an external fuel supply as opposed to relying on limited internal energy stor...
Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it's waiting in an in-box near you Image spam contains little ordinary text to analyze. Instead, it uses the .gif or .jpeg image file formats -- hence i...
For all the talk about safety andsecurity as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities A programming flaw, thought to be the first identified in the new OS, could let hackers take full control o...
Two billionaires are burying the technology hatchet this holiday season. Rupert Murdoch and John Malone ended a two-year battle over Liberty Media's stake in News Corp. with a US$11 billion deal Specifically, Liberty Media has agreed to exchange its 16.3 percent stake in News Corp. for News Corp.'s 38.5 percent stake in DirecTV, as well as regional...
Opera Software on Thursday announced a deal with Samsung Electronics to deliver Opera Mobile on Samsung mobile handsets -- two days after it launched a browser for Nintendo's Wii gaming console Opera Mobile is Opera Software's standards-compliant Web browser for advanced mobile phones. The browser uses Opera's small screen rendering technology to r...
Microsoft on Tuesday fixed at least one of the issues with the Zune digital media player: a compatibility problem with Windows Vista, its new operating system scheduled for release on Jan. 30 The patch may not be enough to turn around poor holiday sales of the software giant's so-called iPod-killer, though....
Sony BMG on Tuesday settled lawsuits with consumers in Texas and California whose computers were infected with spyware hidden on CDs The attorneys general of both states filed lawsuits last year charging the music giant with unfair business practices and violations of anti-spyware statutes....
Samsung Electronics' latest mobile phone sports a gaming element -- a joystick. The company on Tuesday released the SCH-V960, which features a unique "optical joystick" to help users navigate the wireless device's menu and user interface Unlike most cellular devices -- which depend on the use of a scroll bar on the side of the phone or a series of ...
Two Republican lawmakers launched an initiative on Tuesday to overturn a voter-approved amendment protecting embryonic stem cell research in Missouri Rep. Jim Lembke and Sen. Matt Bartlett hope to replace the amendment with a constitutional ban on a specific research method: embryonic cloning. Missouri voters approved the amendment in November by a...
WebSense on Monday identified a Trojan horse that targets Skype IM users in what marks the latest in a series of instant messaging attacks this year The security researcher first reported the attack as a self-propagating worm called "sp.exe." After a full day of investigation in cooperation with Skype and its parent company eBay, WebSense issued an...
NASA Ames Research Center signed a Space Act Agreement withGoogle's on Monday that may pave the way for the search giant to explore space. The organizations will collaborate on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing to human-computer interfaces "This agreement between...
Skype's founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, plan to launch a new Web-based broadband television service next year, according to a Monday report in the Financial Times. The two have invested part of the US$2.6 billion they made from the sale of their Voice over Internet Protocol company to eBay to develop the new service ...
With buzz aboutApple's rumored iPhone growing, Linksys, a unit ofCisco, on Monday announced new additions to its own iPhone product line. The company introduced a series of Web-enabled telephone handsets designed to work with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services ...
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