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Despite lacking a legal requirement to comply with government surveillance rules, Time Warner is reportedly among major cable operators working to follow the controversial Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which the FBI has recently argued should apply to Web-based, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications Critics...
Proposals by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and state agencies to use data-mining techniques to track terrorists are floundering, encountering criticism from civil liberties activists and technologists who blast the plans as too "theoretical" and not technically feasible The FBI last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission ...
Along with efforts to make its software more manageable, Microsoft has announced it is replacing its Software Update Services with a new, more forceful program called Windows Update Services, which will be aimed at getting security patches installed more quickly Microsoft said Update Services 1.0, released in beta this week, marks a major step forw...
Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last several months Daniel R. Harris, an attorney with Cliffo...
In an effort to seize an opportunity created by regional resistanceto the Windows operating system, Hewlett-Packard has said it plans to beginshipping more desktop computers loaded with the Linux operating system in Asia HP said it will partner with Turbolinux to ship theopen-source desktop platform starting in June to a dozen countries in theAsia-...
Nokia -- like the rest of the wireless telephone industry -- has suffered in the public eye of late. First, the tech downturn harmed wireless phone sales around the world, not just in the United States. Then came allegations that Nokia's wireless phones were exploding due to negligent manufacturing and were causing personal injuries to users The co...
The volume of goods being purchased via the Internet is rising. However, while certain consumers know what they want and feel comfortable making an instant purchase, many have questions about product pricing, availability and quality. Increasingly, the latter group is turning to online comparison-shopping sites for help when making a purchase decision...
If one topic has become a hot potato in both the political and employment realms, it is offshore outsourcing. Many companies that have shipped work to countries like India and Russia have claimed the cost savings and the quality of the output have increased efficiency, productivity and ROI Meanwhile, technology professionals have been crying foul, ...
Today at the third annual Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft, laid out Microsoft's vision and technology road map for reducing the cost and complexity of managing and securing enterprise systems: the Microsoft "dynamic systems initiative." During an address to an audience of I...
The number of security holes poked in computer software may be leveling off as vendors scramble to make their products more secure, but the vulnerabilities that are found these days -- despite these efforts -- are more severe. New vulnerabilities increasingly are being leveraged to attack companies and consumers with worms that threaten confidentiality and privacy, according to Symantec's latest "Internet Security Threat Report."
Nortel Networks said it has suspended its two top financial executives pending the outcome of an internal audit, sparking fear that the telecommunications equipment maker could become the latest tech firm ravaged by accounting scandal Shares of Nortel, which had been climbing to new heights as the company began to see the effects of a resurgence in...
State attorneys general meeting in Washington, D.C., this week may be weighing a move to crack down on makers of Internet file-sharing software A document obtained by TechNewsWorld titled "Draft Attorneys General Letter to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Software Manufacturers and Distributors (California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Edited Version 2/25...
With half a billion copies of its Reader document software in use, Adobe has shown its strength in the digital dimension But the company now is committing more resources to develop software for government agencies, businesses and other organizations that are forced -- through regulation, mandate or competition -- to maintain use of hard-copy paper ...
In addition to assigning traditional clock speeds to processors, Intel is rumored to be preparing to assign performance names to its chips. But in discussions with TechNewsWorld, an industry analyst and Intel company insider have indicated those reports are incorrect. When asked about a new performance-rating system from Intel -- reportedly in the...
Researchers in North Carolina State University's Department of Computer Science have developed a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today's high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) connections seem lethargic The protocol is named BIC-TCP, which stands for Binary Increase Congestion Transmission Control Protocol. In a recent comp...
The recent spate of computer worms have included elements of spamming and a supposed battle of words between different malware authors, but the real intent of the dueling viruses is to deny site availability to online gaming companies and other sites that have not complied with Russian mobsters' demands, Gartner research director Richard Stiennon told TechNewsWorld...
As I write this column, I am at an amazing conference session full of attendees who are influencing the world. Ranging from marketing executives to media consultants to top journalists, these people have influence over the perceptions that shape our reality. In this session, every person in the room is electronically connected to the network and t...
In what is being billed as the largest one-time investment of private equity in a technology firm, a leveraged buyout group led by two Silicon Valley venture capital firms has agreed to buy EDS' product design software business for US$2.05 billion in cash The business, UGS PLM Solutions, develops software that helps companies design new products fr...
Among the allegations raised by The SCO Group in its current spate of lawsuits is that the GPL -- the GNU General Public License, which is used for much open-source software, including Linux -- is unconstitutional and in violation of federal copyright and patent laws SCO bases this claim on the clauses in the U.S. Constitution that establish a prin...
At the recent RSA conference, user authentication was a strong theme, and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates hinted at the direction of future technology in this area, predicting the traditional password is headed for its demise In his speech, Gates noted that people will begin to rely less and less on passwords because they cannot secure data or system...
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