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The number of active high-speed Internet connections in the United States grew by 34 percent in 2004 as adoption of broadband continues to grow at a fever pitch, promising to open countless new doors for content distribution and e-commerce The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in its semi-annual report on Internet connections that there ...
A Florida man faces stiff penalties for allegedly accessing someone's residential WiFi Internet connection while parked outside the supposed victim's home in April Police in St. Petersburg reportedly said 41-year-old Benjamin Smith would be charged with unlawfully accessing a computer network, a crime carrying a penalty of as many as five years in ...
Convicted computer criminals are getting drastically different sentences, depending upon the jurisdiction in which they are tried, with one notorious hacker netting a very light suspended sentence, experts tell TechNewsWorld A judge in Germany today handed down a suspended sentence of a year and nine months to Sven Jaschan, the creator of the malic...
In a move that could signal Google's designs on entire new areas of the Web industry, Google has taken a stake in a startup seeking to integrate broadband communications into existing electrical power lines Google joined Wall Street banking house Goldman Sachs & Co. and media giant Hearst in providing an undisclosed cash infusion to Current Communi...
Months after Yahoo released a toolbar designed specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser, Google has followed suit The beta version of the toolbar was released today. The Internet Explorer version of the search engine company's toolbar has been out for four years. This is the first software product Google has released that is exclusive to Firefo...
An aggressive investment advisor or stockbroker might not agree with this article. You see, it takes a rather simplistic but safe approach to investing What I am advocating is mutual funds -- not just any mutual funds, but mutual funds that have produced a steady stream of income and have consistently traded within an acceptably safe range -- the d...
About this time of the year, many manufacturers start believing their markets are saturated. Sales cycles are too quiet in July and August, and everyone from the CFO to the custodial staff get nervous. Too often manufacturers mistake a larger-than-normal dip in a sales cycle for market saturation. On the other hand, there are those companies faced with real market saturation -- and their plummeting prices every day just underscore how impervious their markets are to price as their lone remaining differentiator...
Last week, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform held hearings in Houston to discuss fixing the nation's voting system. New technologies help make most businesses more effective and efficient, so it only makes sense to upgrade America's ballot box as well E-voting machines, often referred to as direct recording electronic (DRE) ma...
Rambus touted its ramped-up computer chip memory interface known as XDR2 this week, heralding the high-speed interface as a tool for "unprecedented graphics capabilities" enabled through the new technology The latest version of its high-bandwidth XDR memory interface, XDR2, uses a DRAM core innovation known as microthreading and other enhanced tech...
In a move to cater to midsize businesses, Microsoft today announced a Windows Server System bundle aimed at companies with 50 to 250 PCs. The software giant is hoping to gain the traction in the midmarket that it has achieved with its Small Business Server The Windows Server System offering includes Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, Microsoft ...
One of the long-feared results of Internet security problems -- its potential effect on consumer behavior and eventually, spending -- might be starting to materialize, according to a new report The Pew Internet & American Life project says that a survey that it conducted found that 91 percent of Internet users have changed their online behavior out...
Yahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the future....
In a move that could dramatically accelerate the adoption of streaming movies online, Intel has said it would invest in a new company established by actor Morgan Freeman that seeks to make first-run films available for downloads even before they reach stores on DVD Intel made an unspecified investment in ClickStar, which is striving to offer movie ...
Adobe Systems yesterday reported its Reader contains a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code. A security flaw in the dominant document-sharing software could allow hackers to seize control of a computer system Adobe Acrobat Reader is a program for viewing Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Under specia...
E-mail authentication -- considered by many spam fighters as an important first step in reducing unsolicited correspondence on the Internet -- will be the focus of a summit conference to be held in New York City next Tuesday The day-long confab at the Marriott Marquis will be moderated by Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, who will also deliver t...
It's one of the most popular uses of the Internet and something users do every day: They drop digital photos into e-mail and send them to friends and family Such photos are often bandwidth hogs, a problem that Yahoo is attempting to address with its Photo Mail feature. The service uses the Yahoo Mail Web site to store full-size digital images, whil...
The battle over the nominee to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is already roaring -- on the Internet An array of sites -- from the left and the right -- have already sprouted online, touting the views of their sponsors, and claiming that the nomination is the most important court appointment in American history, one ...
Japanese electronics and handset giants Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo proudly proclaimed joint development of a high-capacity micro fuel cell with recharger for mobile handsets this week, but analysts said that batteries continue to push the envelope ahead of such technologies, which have long been promised by industry Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo stated that t...
Microsoft yesterday launched its Digital Image Suite 2006, a package of tools designed to help consumers organize, enhance and share digital images Microsoft is hoping to gain greater traction in a growing digital imaging market. PMA Marketing Research predicts consumers will take 25 billion digital photos this year alone, and that's not counting a...
Though more consumers are testing out digital downloads, portable MP3 players and streaming music from satellite and Web sources, many more still rely on tried-and-true technologies such as portable CD players and traditional FM radio for their music, according to a new report The study from Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC underscores the...
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