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Before the advent of the Internet, telecommuting was considered an abnormality, something done in rare circumstances by select individuals. However, when broadband connectivity became widely available, telecommuting opportunities became more common. Surprisingly, after a few years of healthy growth, that trend may be losing its steam Working from h...
Nessus, maker of one of the most popular open-source vulnerability scanner programs available, changed its licensing agreement with the release of version 3.0.0 on December 12, causing a bit of a stir among security industry players that rely on the code as a component of their commercial solutions. The latest version is not available under the GPL license, but instead will be sold as a commercial product...
A federal appeals court has invalidated patents for bar codes and machine vision in a case that could have significant implications for the technology industry, experts told TechNewsWorld The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court for patent cases, based in Washington, D.C. -- has declared all of the claimed "Lemelson ba...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week claimed the CAN-SPAM Act has cut down on the number of unsolicited spam e-mails reaching consumers, indicating the legislation and improved anti-spam technology have resulted in less spam this year compared to 2003 The FTC also announced a cross-border spam crackdown with Canadian authorities and urged e...
Google is teaming up with digital media technology provider Lexar Media to offer USB flash drives with popular Web applications Lexar said yesterday it would bring Google applications, including Picasa, Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search applications on its USB flash drives....
In a bold move to strengthen its grip on the money-making side of the Web search business, Google has finalized a deal to pay US$1 billion for a 5 percent stake in America Online and to deliver advertising to AOL sites The deal, which came about after months of back-and-forth negotiations among AOL, Google and Microsoft, also stands to boost AOL's ...
Cyber-attackers are delivering an early Christmas gift this holiday season, albeit one more unwanted than the proverbial bag of coal. This Christmas-themed worm attack is not leaving anyone out. It's delivering its rootkit payload to instant messaging (IM) users of AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo networks A rootkit is a hacker security ...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause more damage because the devices generally lack the...
While credit card companies research and develop new anti-fraud measurements, alternative payment solutions providers are cashing in on the demand for online security and customer choice Alternative payment solutions are often less expensive for the merchant and can be easier to use than setting up the merchant account that is required to process c...
Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking But, as any savvy technologist knows, such gaps in the fabric of things tech don'...
Congress is leaving a special gift under the tree for Hollywood's film industry. Just before closing for the holidays, legislators introduced a new proposal designed to curb redistribution of movies The Digital Transition Content Security Act would embed anticopying technology into the next generation of digital video products. If it makes its way ...
Worried that American companies -- notably Google and Yahoo -- are dominating a key part of the technology landscape, the Japanese government is considering starting up a rival search engine Reports out of Tokyo say the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will convene a study group consisting of about 20 Japanese electronics companies ...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones The security software vendor warned of an alarming growth in mobile Trojans and other malware, which are likely to impact mobile phones on a global basis and cause more damage because the devices generally lack the...
Oracle has changed the formula it uses to determine the cost of software licenses for multi-core processors, the company announced. In July, it began counting each core as .75 of a whole, but it will now use different formulas based on the specific chips in use The majority of buyers purchase licenses by processor, although Oracle also offers per ...
Suggesting the patents at the heart of an adverse court ruling that could force it to shut down or alter its BlackBerry e-mail service are without merit, Research In Motion said it would continue to battle NTP in the courts and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office The defiant tone sounded by RIM Chairman and Co-CEO Jim Balsillie suggests RIM may...
For the last several days, Google has set the online and financial worlds buzzing with an expected deal with America Online that could be cut as early as today. Although opinion varies on the wisdom and impact of the move, there's one point on which everyone agrees: The maneuver will add fuel to the simmering feud between Microsoft and the Net's favorite search engine...
Guess what? Your digital music library is not actually a library. It's considered "hoarding." The entertainment cartels have already pirated the word "pirate" to replace "counterfeit" and/or "duplicate" and/or "share." It's so much more PR-friendly -- more emotive and evocative....
Convergence has been an ongoing goal for telecommunications suppliers in recent years. Today, cable companies sell not only video but also Internet access and telecommunications services. Recently, they have begun to get ready to deliver wireless services, which would enable them to deliver a quadruple bundle In a noteworthy development, four compa...
Traditional retailers plan to offer steep discounts, longer store hours and other incentives this week, hoping to lure shoppers into malls and stores to salvage a shopping season during which the lion's share of gains has been seen in online sales The International Council of Shopping Centers said today that most retailers are on pace to post low s...
Predictions for the future and realities of the past are being fused together via Internet technology. Increasingly, Web sites and services are popping up that save e-mails for a pre-determined amount of time that a user can send to him or herself in the near or distant future While there are a number of sites now providing such services, FutureMe....
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