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Military gear that could be used in terrorist operations is showing up oneBay and Craigslist, and some lawmakers are calling for action In response to the House Subcommittee on Security and National Affairs' request to investigate online sales of sensitive military equipment, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday that it found a ho...
Blockbuster is working on a new movie-streaming and/or downloading service, according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter. The reported device apparently would let its customers view movies from a television set-top box similar to the Apple TV or an Xbox 360, both of which can download rentable movies Blockbuster has declined to comment specifi...
As the director of consulting services for a company that makes e-mail marketing software, it probably doesn't surprise you that I'm constantly asked questions about e-mail marketing best practices. One of the most common questions I've been asked is, "What's the best e-mail contact strategy?" No matter if the questioner is a mom-and-pop Yahoo sto...
What does a systems engineer in charge of a computer network for a major medical facility do to trim expenses and administer much-needed performance medicine to mission-critical applications? In the case of Orlando's Florida Hospital, network administrators surgically removed failing proprietary software and hardware and implanted open source technology...
The face of online security will change drastically, Jim Bidzos, founder and chairman of trusted certificates vendor VeriSign, said in a keynote speech on Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco "In the '70s in enterprises, there were mainly mainframes. The Internet, due to good work by Al Gore, who will be speaking later, was the...
Verizon has filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, claiming that company's advertising gives a false impression about the telecom firm's new fiber optic-based TV service Verizon filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York....
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a predictive traffic system that combines historical traffic data with real-time updates from GPS-enabled devices in order to build real-time maps for drivers The services, which runs on the Live.com platform, grew out of research by Eric Horvitz, who has been working on the project for four years....
Linux has a bright future in the business world, according to an IDC white paper sponsored by the Linux Foundation and released Tuesday. By 2011, expenditures on Linux-based hardware, software and related services will reach US$49 billion, more than double 2007's figure of $21 billion, according to the study's authors. The growth, they said, will be driven by enterprise deployments...
The United States emergency response system may be coming to a mobile phone near you. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a big leap Wednesday in setting up the framework necessary to use the nation's wireless carriers to transmit text message alerts, warnings and critical information to citizens via cell phones and other mobile devices during disasters or other emergencies, the FCC said...
IBM has introduced a mashup portfolio designed to help line of business users create applications for specific situations The driver behind development of the portfolio is the recognition that there is a huge amount of value in unstructured data and content that doesn't always fall neatly under the IT enterprise umbrella....
How do you respond when hit by a cyber attack tsunami? That's what Cyber Storm II, the most comprehensive cyber exercise ever held in the U.S., was designed to answer....
Yahoo has launched a limited test of Google's AdSense search advertising service, a move that Microsoft immediately slammed as anticompetitive and one that came amid a flurry of new developments in the Microsoft-Yahoo saga The test covers no more than 3 percent of the search queries generated from Yahoo's own Web properties in the United States onl...
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction," said Sir Isaac Newton. While he made that observation centuries before the dot-com boom and bust, his words remain quite relevant today. After large corporation executives took advantage of their positions and wreaked financial havoc, the federal government was called to step in and prevent a recurrence. The result was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law with repercussions that e-commerce enterprises continue to feel...
How green is your computer equipment? The answer could provide insight into how much electricity you aren't buying each month to run your computers and peripherals. It can also provide a clue to how much long-term harm your computing activity is having on the world around you The question of green computing becomes more intense as energy issues mov...
Yahoo rolled out a limited video-sharing service for its online photo-sharing service, Flickr, which will allow its members to upload short videos and integrate them with photo sets and slide shows The new service isn't a competitor to the likes of YouTube or other video sites that specialize in the storage -- and delivery -- of large videos. Inste...
Spurned in an earlier buyout attempt, data storage vendor EMC came back with a US$213 million offer that Iomega accepted Tuesday The all-cash deal -- a 20 percent increase over a March bid of $178 million -- opens the way for EMC to target small businesses and consumers....
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received more applications for 2009 H-1B visas than it can issue, exceeding the congressional limit on the tech-friendly program just days after applications were first accepted The agency has received enough petitions for H-1B visas to meet the 65,000 limit set by Congress and also has exce...
After working for years to prevent cyberterrorist attacks on the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security has approached the private sector for help At a talk given to information security professionals at the RSA Security Conference , Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned that a cyberterrorist attack would hurt the U.S. as much as t...
Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman Motorola, which has experienced a market share loss in the smartphone business in competition with rivals like Nokia and Apple, recently announced a plan to break into two independent publicly traded companies....
Motorola has selected David Dorman, a former AT&T chief executive, as its non-executive chairman Motorola, which has experienced a market share loss in the smartphone business in competition with rivals like Nokia and Apple, recently announced a plan to break into two independent publicly traded companies....
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