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Public companies are required to note possible risk factors that investors need to be aware of, and one of the risk factors reported by Novell notes the uncertainty of the effects of the new and upcoming GNU General Public License (GPLv3), according to the company's annual U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K, released last week The la...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army has set up "information warfare" units to create viruses for use in attacking enemy computer systems and networks, according to a Department of Defense report released Friday "The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is pursuing comprehensive transformation from a mass army designed for protracted wars of attrition on...
The push for high-definition (HD) radio received a vote of confidence Tuesday when Sony unveiled the latest additions to its line of audio consumer electronics: a tabletop HD radio and an in-car audio adapter "Sony is one of the first leading consumer electronics companies to offer quality HD radio-enabled devices," said Steve Haber, senior vice pr...
Domain name registrar and Web site hosting firm GoDaddy has reached an agreement to take over tens of thousands of domain names maintained by a rival firm that is about to lose its accreditation to register and host Web addresses Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GoDaddy reached an agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN...
Once a feisty competitor that beat Intel to market with processor innovations and lower costs, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has lately slumped a bit. That could change, as Japanese electronics giant Toshiba confirmed Tuesday it plans to use AMD processors in some of its laptops The deal would pull the plug on an arrangement under which th...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly is formally investigating Google's proposed takeover of interactive ad firm DoubleClick, with the agency weighing both the potential antitrust and consumer privacy issues of the blockbuster deal The FTC has acknowledged receiving complaints about the possible implications of the merger, with the Electro...
Senders of unsolicited electronic messages, also known as spammers, are deploying a new generation of image spam to outsmart e-mail filters and other technologies designed to thwart them. They're cutting corners by linking their spam message to a photo from a popular image-hosting site, instead of sending it as an e-mail attachment. This technique...
Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new Web application development and deployment In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich online and mobile ...
Demand is high for a super system that can promise protection from external threats while organizations' networks, data and software applications become increasingly interconnected Since Cisco Systems coined the term and released its first "network access control" system in 2003, interest in NACs has expanded to the point where it's difficult to te...
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nicholas G. Carr, author of Does IT Matter....
Last week seemed incredibly long, because we were looking forward to a three day weekend, which, by the time you see this, will likely have gone by incredibly fast. The vendor that builds a tool to address that problem will make a fortune Speaking of a fortune, the PS3 hasn't been doing well and has been losing one for Sony. It has been getting th...
What should companies do -- and what should they refrain from doing -- when reacting to blog postings about their products or services? Robert Cox, president of the New York-based Media BloggersAssociation and a consultant to consumer packaged goods companies, has veryspecific ideas on the subject What they shouldn't do: Ignore the situation, or wo...
Google may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing user information on customer queries for prolonged periods of time, advisers to EU regulators informed the company An independent European Union committee has begun an investigation to determine whether Google adheres to privacy guidelines set by the EU....
Recent press reports have indicated that a managed copy specification -- supported by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) that provides the copy-prevention system on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs -- may be nearing reality Details, however, are few and far between. The AACS has acknowledged that it is talking over specifications with movie studios ...
Web surfers all too familiar with the distorted-letter tests that accompany so many site registration forms today can now take heart -- the time they spend on those tests is being put to good use Thanks to a project at Carnegie Mellon University, a new version of those pesky CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Hum...
MySpace competitor Facebook has introduced a new open platform that allows developers to build applications that integrate with the social networking site and can be chosen by users to appear within their Facebook profile pages Announced Thursday by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and called "Facebook Platform" -- the new system will al...
The state of Connecticut is suing electronics retailer Best Buy, saying the company deceived customers by using in-store kiosks linked to an employee-only Web site to suggest that bargains posted on the company's public-facing site were no longer available Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched the investigation last month after r...
Social networking is the best-known use of the Web 2.0 -- just consider the popularity of MySpace and YouTube. Today, Web sites are so interactive and collaborative, we now have a new way of communicating and staying in touch Because of this, many have been wondering where the Web 2.0 -- the latest evolution of the World Wide Web -- is heading....
Social networking is popular on the Web. So is shopping. Imagine, then, the potential of Net shops that combine the two into a package called "social shopping." Until recently, most designers of e-commerce sites have concentrated on catering to individual shoppers -- what the research firm Gartner calls the "solo hunter."
Digital cinema distribution and projection systems are gaining momentum, while the film industry is seeking new ways to pack theaters. AsPart 1 of this two-part series points out, the new formats not only offer film studios, distributors and cinema operators significant cost reductions, but also provide unrivaled viewing experiences that competing media will find difficult to match...
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