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Many corporate IT departments are finally getting what they've been waiting for, as AT&T rolls out its network-based firewall, which is expected to help ward off the latest virus and worm outbreaks in a simpler, more cost-effective manner AT&T's managed security service, known as Internet Protect, will now help stop network viruses in the early sta...
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia and semiconductor maker Royal Philips Electronics plan to test a contactless transportation payment system in Germany next year ...
Gadget geeks got a rush today when PalmOne officially announced its latest smartphone, the Treo 650, a year after its Treo 600 debuted and a week after it accidentally leaked its own press release on the product Despite the interest in the new device -- rumors of its features began popping up on Web sites months ago -- analysts and aficionados agr...
New data shows the popularity of alternative browsers continues to erode the overwhelming market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, even before the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox, which formally hits shelves next week The latest data from Web analytics firm WebSideStory shows that the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, both of which are produc...
Expectations are high that Sun Microsystems will make some significant announcements this month about an open-source version of its Solaris operating system Reportedly, key pieces to the open-source project could be revealed as early as November 15 when the company has scheduled its quarterly SunNetwork Conference at the Tech Museum of Innovation i...
Yahoo is hogging the tech media headlines today as observers seek to separate fact from fiction As the dust settles, it is clear that Yahoo is planning a new search tool, may not be losing its head honcho to Disney, and has wooed a former ABC programmer to its camp....
Why is Pakistan the hot new offshore information technology (IT) destination? This is because of a combination of favorable economic circumstances. Just when many Western managers are finally becoming comfortable with the idea of working closely with Indian IT firms, along comes Pakistan Pakistan is shaking off decades of "also ran" status. Funds i...
Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, started a revolution over printer drivers. According to the official history, he couldn't get permission or source code to modify a printer driver to suit his needs, so he wrote the General Public License (GPL) and a compiler. Eventually, he and others wrote an operating system, too Now ...
Biometric identification is no longer something found only in science fiction. The technology, such as fingerprint identification and face recognition, is starting to be used on a regular basis on everything from personal computers to airport security systems Clain Anderson -- program director for security and wireless at the PC division of IBM in ...
Finally, there's an end in sight PeopleSoft stockholders have until November 19 to tender their stock for Larry Ellison's "best and final offer" of US$24 a share -- cash -- or $9.2 billion for the whole enchilada....
Google reported this morning that it had locked down a security hole in its e-mail software A week ago the Israeli online magazine Nata NetLife reported an exploitation of Google's Gmail e-mail service, currently in beta testing....
Intel unveiled its latest ultra-high-end processor platform, the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, with a higher-speed frontside bus and more cache and memory The move marks a departure from the company's traditional advancement through clock speed, more closely resembling the strategy of rival AMD....
From New Zealand to India, worldwide tech media is buzzing with headlines about China cracking down on thousands of Internet cafes. In a market that has some 87 million Internet users -- the world's second-largest population of Netizens after the United States -- the implications on e-commerce have far-reaching effects China has shut down 1,600 Int...
Interactive marketing firm DoubleClick said it has hired an investment banking firm to help it examine strategic options, including a possible sale of all or part of the company In a brief statement, DoubleClick said it had tapped Lazard Freres & Co. to "explore strategic options for the business in order to achieve greater shareholder value, inclu...
A new flavor of the Bagle worm that reared its head Thursday is spreadingrapidly around the Internet through e-mail and file-sharing programs The difference between Bagle.bb and the other variants that surfaced since theinitial attack is the way they are packed or which files drop onto the machine,Gregg Mastoras, senior security analyst at the anti...
Computers are becoming pervasive learning tools in K-12 education, whether in individual classrooms or in a shared media center Both Apple and Microsoft have donated millions of dollars worth of equipment to schools in order to aid education and spread their doctrine. But what about the growing influence of Linux? Are students exposed to the open-s...
There are many "what if" stories surrounding Apple, and one of them is this: What if, when Microsoft asked Apple to license its OS, Apple had done so, becoming the core technology in Windows instead of a closed platform If that had happened, it is widely believed, Apple would be larger than Dell now, rather than smaller than Acer. But who knows, m...
Dell has declared war on spyware with its announcement on October 20 that all of its computers will ship with a free security software package. Dell will begin bundling the security package in its computers as soon as the spyware component is ready, something company officials expect will occur between early November and the holidays Dell's decisio...
Biometric technology has been around for more than a decade with little fanfare. However, interest is heating up for biometric security devices in communications. Iris scanners, voice recognition modules and fingerprint readers promise to raise the bar on locking down access to computers, networks, Web sites and even cell phones One of the hottest ...
An investigation coordinated by the U.S. Secret Service netted 28 people suspected of operating an international cybercrime clearinghouse. Authorities made 21 arrests in the United States; seven others were arrested in six different countries The suspects allegedly operated a sophisticated identity-theft marketplace that trafficked in counterfeit c...
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