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Could the American spy community improve its intelligence activities throughblogging? A captain in the U.S. Army Reserve thinks so and says as much inthe March issue of Wired magazine Capt. Kris Alexander, a millitary intelligence officer, argues in an essay that blogsshould be incorporated into the intelligence community's classified computernetwo...
What will Google do next? How will Yahoo counter the move? And how will this impact MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and the scores of smaller players vying to get their share of the search engine revenue pie? Rumors abound about what will come next for major players in search. Some believe Google is preparing to launch a free Internet telephone service in t...
ChoicePoint Inc., a seller of information about most households and their inhabitants, became an overnight household name last month The Alpharetta, Ga., company disclosed that criminals posing as legitimate business operators had acquired 145,000 consumer records in October 2004. This announcement was followed by a report that the company experien...
Oracle, never a company to shy from head-on competition, announced todaythat it would outbid rival SAP in its attempt to buy software maker Retek,offering US$9 per share. SAP had agreed last week to pay $8.50 a share Oracle's offer bumps the bid for the retail applications provider from $496 million to $524million. The database giant has already be...
In a move to boost its small business services, Yahoo today announced the launch of its online Yahoo Small Business Resource Center. The center offers more than 1,000 articles on key business issues, including marketing, legal and human resources "The new Yahoo Small Business Resource Center provides information and resources that will help entrepr...
For the second time in less than a month, Americans are finding out that their private information may be in the hands of identity thieves Publisher and information broker Reed Elsevier announced today that criminals using a stolen identity and password gained access to information on as many as 32,000 Americans from a database in the company's Sei...
IBM's landscape-altering sale of its personal computer business to China-based Lenovo Group has cleared an important hurdle, with the deal found not to pose a threat to national security The US$1.75 billion sale got the green light from the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, making it likely the sale can be closed within ...
America Online announced plans yesterday to offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service to its customers within a month AOL Chief Executive Jon Miller said "it's really time" for VoIP services during his keynote address at the VON Spring 2005 conference in San Jose, Calif. Even though Miller admitted that "there's a lot we don't know, a lot o...
You catch the early train and can't watch your favorite morning news show; you work late one night and miss the latest "CSI," or you're stuck sitting in an airport while your favorite team is playing in a championship basketball game. In the past, you had limited options in situations like these: Tape or TiVo the show and watch it later, or simply miss it completely. But soon, cellular network suppliers may present you with a better alternative: watching television programs on your cell phone...
E-commerce is growing in leaps and bounds. Searching on global engines for business names based on "Web" or "Net," like WebCom, WebTech, NetSys or NetWeb, will now result in millions of matches. This signals a crisis for business name identities, corporate images and global cyber-branding The same goes for the other top 100 most diluted words, suff...
While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought ofas federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is notalways the case Parvin Dhaliwal, 18, pleaded guilty last month in Maricopa County, Arizona, topossession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ofintellectual property. The FBI, which had found copi...
Malicious code writers have apparently pounced on a known security vulnerability in MSN Messenger, unleashing a rash of new viruses aimed at Microsoft's instant messenger platform The outbreak of viruses comes about three weeks after a vulnerability in the platform was published online. That brought several advisories and warnings from security fir...
Users of T-Mobile's Sidekick devices experienced a "degradation of service" yesterday that prevented them from using e-mail, instant messaging and other data services Creator of the Sidekick devices Danger Inc., which also provides Sidekick services on behalf of T-Mobile, posted a notice on its user forum, Hiptop.com: "This morning some users may e...
After ringing warnings bells for months about the threat of computer viruses for mobile phones, security experts today are reporting the first multimedia messaging service (MMS) virus, CommWarrior, which has the potential -- so far unrealized -- to spread to cell phones all over the world Security firm F-Secure said CommWarrior was foreshadowed las...
Microsoft detailed its user-friendlier "Project Green" at the Convergence 2005 conference in San Diego today. The enhanced technology road map for Microsoft Business Solutions' development effort includes support for current business management solutions until at least 2013, the company said "With our customers' business in mind, we continue to inv...
Handset maker Nokia has joined with a slew of European-based partners to launch a test of a mobile television service in the Finland capital city of Helsinki Nokia and its partners, including MTV and the Finnish national broadcasting company on the content side, as well local mobile carriers and technology firms, said that while limited in scope, t...
Computer video professionals might find it hard to turn away from the latest innovation in laptop technology. The Sharp Actius AL3D notebook announced today bundles a second generation 3-D LCD notebook with a software package that converts any DVD from 2-D to 3-D format in real time, allowing users to view any DVD movie in full 3-D This newest lapt...
American companies have always had to worry about their overseas facilitiesbeing red, white and blue bull's-eyes for terrorists, but now their offshoringpartners may be in the crosshairs of subversives, too A reported raid last Saturday by police in Delhi, India, in which three menwere killed and another arrested, uncovered plans to attack software...
If you mention travel in Pakistan and India, Americans often think about safety. I'm in my fifth week of travel in Pakistan and recently spent three years living in India The best safety tip for business travelers is a local cell phone with numbers added to its address book for people whom you are be going to meet. If you or your driver become lost...
Linux, the ubiquitous free operating system that by some estimates currently runs over half of all servers and is swiftly making inroads into operating systems from computers to mobile phones, is now targeting the automotive industry As the cost of electronic components in automobiles continues to increase, the battle is being waged between Linux a...
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