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Game giant Electronic Arts is giving the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division a multimillion-dollar donation to advance interactive media education and produce professionals for the next generation of gaming The money -- which is part of EA's global education and talent development effort -- will fund two USC interactive m...
A computer worm that targets antivirus or firewall protection is nothing new, but the most recent case of a direct attack against computer defenses unfolded with alarming speed, less than two days after vulnerabilities in BlackICE and RealSecure software -- made by Internet Security Systems -- were disclosed As a result, the Witty.A worm -- a netwo...
Sun Microsystems has revealed it is working on a server designed to enable faster and more expansive online game play. The company's goal is to create a dedicated server that can allow far more online gamers to play the same game at the same time. Using traditional business servers, gaming companies currently must divide game players into segments...
Last week I flew down to the launch of the new Starbucks music service and got far more out of the event than a cup of coffee and some free music. I got a sense of why Starbucks is as successful as it is and why HP is suddenly emerging as the company to beat in the technology space. I also went away with a better understanding of the future of music services.
Faster, more flexible, less expensive and more functional has been the telecommunications industry's mantra. As soon as one networking technology takes hold, vendors begin pushing another that promises to deliver more functionality, and such a scenario is now unfolding with wireless wide area networks Currently, carriers are delivering 2.5G network...
Rounding out the last half of the alphabet with Bagle.Q, Bagle.R, Bagle.S and Bagle.T variants, the latest worms in a long string of malware have become more sophisticated and sneaky, leaving security experts to ponder what might come next from the evolving family of malicious code Reports from antivirus and security vendors indicate the latest Bag...
A former Romanian software programmer who now works for Microsoft has filed a $25 million lawsuit against peer-to-peer (P2P) leader Sharman Networks, which owns and runs the Kazaa file-sharing utility that the man, Fabian Toader, claims is his work Toader, who worked on a freelance basis for Kazaa from Romania four years ago, claims he never signed...
A coalition of the U.S. government and private businesses has released a report calling for the formation of an early-warning system to alert companies to impending and ongoing cyber-security threats. In the report, the coalition laid out recommendations for increasing personal responsibility for securing the Web The National Cyber Security Partner...
An unsolicited e-mail arrives in your in-box from Marc Racicot, chairman of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign, asking you to donate "using our secure server," at www.GeorgeWBush.com/Contribute/, a total of $2,000, $1,000, or a smaller sum, to keep TV ads exposing John Kerry's miserly defense spending record on the air Political spam, like this message, ...
Google recently announced the integration of local search results into Google.com. Currently in beta, Google Local allows users to find relevant local information with neighborhood business listings, maps, directions and Web links. Combining sources from its catalog in excess of 4.3 billion Web pages, a local search result can suddenly become very...
With disturbing frequency, big corporations' reputations are going down the drain. Often, the root cause is that top people are caught with their hands in the cookie jar. A corporate image that took decades to build now stands like a crumbled ruin, in smoke and beyond repair. The same story is repeated again and again Former CEO Martha Stewart is j...
Passwords are the first line of defense in almost every company's security scheme. But sometimes they are the weakest link because they can be easily guessed, stolen or otherwise compromised. If a firm wants to keep its information secure, then it needs to put additional security checks in place Passwords are widely used because they offer everyone...
Spyware has surpassed viruses as the number one threat facing your computer today. In fact, most estimates report that 90 percent of computers already have been infiltrated by spyware, which is the name given to any program that installs itself on your hard drive, collects personal information about you and your computer habits, then sends it to a third party without your knowledge.
There are a few cardinal rules of e-business sites that have become the goal of every Webmaster: Keep design simple, make navigation easy, and stress the need for speed. With Web architecture becoming more refined and vendors pushing out products that streamline operations, becoming faster has never been easier Of course, there is fast, and then th...
Internet civil libertarians are raising red flags over parallel bills in the California state legislature that would punish file traders of copyrighted materials with up to a year in jail, US$2,500 in fines or both if the users do not provide their real names and addresses with the title of the work A California State Senate bill introduced by Sen....
Last-ditch efforts by high-ranking Microsoft executives to negotiate a settlement with European Union antitrust regulators apparently have fallen short, and the clock is now ticking toward a March 24th decision by regulators about what penalties to slap on the software giant Microsoft had been in negotiations with the EU for some time, with company...
Some malware that packs an unusual assortment of tools for mischief and has infected thousands of computers on the Internet is being closely watched by security experts Although the "Phatbot" or "Polybot" program currently poses a low risk to online systems, its potential for devilry prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week to is...
One way or another, anti-outsourcing legislation seems likely to pass both houses of the U.S. Congress relatively soon. Whether this comes about through the House initiative led by Bernard Sanders or through other routes isn't important. What is important is that most of the proposals being discussed have bipartisan support and outlaw the use of government dollars to support foreign jobs at the expense of American workers...
A router maker starts receiving complaints from customers -- around the world -- that the ports on a particular networking device are not working properly. IT professionals, scrambling to cope, attempt to close the faulty ports with technology equivalent to electrical tape They are able to redirect the data flow to other parts of the device, but th...
In December, Check Point Software Technologies acquired personal firewall leader Zone Labs for US$205 million, creating a high-powered security firm ready to crank out more products for businesses and consumers alike. One of the first applications to result from the acquisition is an upgrade to a popular Zone Labs product, Integrity. The new version, 5.0, reflects both the company's longstanding focus and its new collaboration with Check Point.
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