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This past May, the country of Estonia was hit hard by what its authorities called a "virtual war." This war took the form of an attack on the country's computer infrastructure Many governmental and commercial sites were hit. The attacks on the country's commerce seemed to focus on the country's media -- television stations and newspapers. Additiona...
Have you ever walked into a big box store and seen scores of half-full shopping carts scattered throughout the aisles? It would seem unlikely, but for e-commerce retailers, abandoned carts are more common than you think Shopping cart abandonment has existed since the dawn of the e-cart, but how can retailers determine why customers leave? What can ...
WSO2 has entered the open source SOA (service-oriented architecture) field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0, based on Apache Synapse and targeted at both developers who want to use enterprise service buses (ESBs) quickly, as well as operations architects seeking lightweight and high-performing components...
It goes without saying that most IT shops operate in a high-stress, high-workload environments. As technologists, we have limited budgets, limited staff, and dozens of projects on our plate -- it often feels like there aren't enough hours in the day just to keep up with today's workload, never mind planning for tomorrow's Just ask yourself when the...
The world of high performance computing (HPC) is expanding every day, particularly in the fields of geosciences, molecular biology and medical diagnostics, where scientists are increasingly turning to supercomputers to crunch massive amounts of data via complex simulations and applications Graphics processing unit (GPU) solution provider Nvidia has...
Earlier this month, it looked for a while as though there might be another wave of multi-jurisdictional investigations against Microsoft reminiscent of the antitrust saga that began in 1998. Google had been complaining -- first behind the scenes, then publicly -- about the lack of access for third-party search engines in Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista...
Sony has bet its PlayStation 3 (PS3) fortunes on some 380 new games coming to store shelves in 2008 Kaz Hirai reportedly told just over 7,000 shareholders Thursday at the company's 90th annual shareholder meeting held in Tokyo The PS3 maker believes the new titles will boost sales of the next-generation console, according to reports. The PS3 has t...
Ohio's data theft problem has grown beyond the scope of the information originally provided by state officials It was announced last week that a data device containing state workers' personal info had been given to an Ohio state intern who reported it missing after his vehicle was burglarized. At the time, officials reported that the data pertained...
Every time Congress has passed legislation to ease stem cell restrictions in recent years, President Bush has vowed he would veto the bill, and that's just what he did again on Wednesday "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers -- for the first time in our history -- to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos,...
Regulators in Europe have given the green light to a planned Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.: a Web video repository seen as a competitor to Google's YouTube The yet-to-be-named venture -- first announced in March following weeks of speculation -- is expected to launch sometime this summer and, at least at first, will be...
French government officials may no longer use BlackBerry devices to send and receive e-mail, according to the French newspaper Le Monde Citing security concerns -- specifically, snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) -- French government security experts have reportedly banned the ubiquitous devices in ministries and the presidential p...
The two largest phone companies in Canada are in talks for a possible merger that could fend off U.S.-backed private equity buyers as the wave of consolidation that reshaped the U.S. telecommunications landscape appears poised to hit north of the border BCE, the largest phone provider in Canada, confirmed Thursday that it was in talks with the coun...
The three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court has upheld a ruling that grants extensive new privacy protections for e-mail users. It is an ambitious decision -- said to be the first for the Circuit Courts -- and one that is almost surely headed to the Supreme Court for review In Warshak v. United States, the federal court upheld the finding that...
Key kernel developers and more than 230 Linux leaders participated last week in the first Collaboration Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation to discuss solutions for the most pressing issues facing greater Linux adoption The nonprofit Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux -- formed in February as a merger of The Free Stan...
Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), social networking and on-demand application services proliferate Network providers are trending toward an...
Gateway, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced the recall of some 14,000 notebook computer batteries. Laptop PCs with the defective batteries can overheat and pose a fire hazard for consumers, the organizations said "Gateway is working with its suppliers to cover the cost of replacement battery packs and ...
U.S. Department of Homeland Security CIO Scott Charbo was in the hot seat Wednesday, testifying before a Congressional subcommittee on the hundreds of security breaches that have occurred at various areas within his organization in the last couple of years. Some reports pin the number around 800, and they comprise everything from stolen laptops to Web site hacks...
A computer failure at United Airlines prevented the takeoff of all the air carrier's flights worldwide for about two hours on Wednesday Flights scheduled to depart between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT were grounded, causing backups and delays around the globe. Twenty-four domestic flights were canceled, and approximately 268 domestic and international fl...
Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors' desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google News of the agreement was included in an U.S. Department of Justice report on Microsoft's compliance with final judgments of the U.S. versus Microsoft anti-trust case....
News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch has offered to swap the wildly popular social networking site MySpace in exchange for a stake in portal-in-flux Yahoo Murdoch reportedly approached Yahoo with the offer of giving the portal ownership of MySpace in exchange for a 30 percent ownership stake of the combined Yahoo-MySpace....
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