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Despite the misgivings of smaller domain-name registrars that stand to lose revenue and control over domain names that expire, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering approving a controversial service by VeriSign At its meetings to be held in Rome, Italy, next week, ICANN's board of directors is scheduled to t...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) sellers anxious to keep offering voice and data services using the Internet are asking the federal government to continue to refrain from regulating the industry The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kept VoIP free of the same regulatory requirements and fees charged to traditional circuit-switched tele...
As the writer for several top-20 MP3.com hits last year, Paul Korda's perspective on the convergence of technology and music comes from many years of working as a musician and songwriter -- not to mention being a producer at EMI in the late 1960s. He has seen the old technology meet the new -- and witnessed the transformation of monolithic Big Music into a distributed network of thousands of peer-to-peer enthusiasts.
The latest iteration of the MyDoom worm, "MyDoom.F," has Internet security experts worried because, in addition to triggering denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, it also can delete files from infected computers. MyDoom.F was first identified last Friday and has picked up steam in just the last few days, Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley told the E-Commerce Times...
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will introduce a line of servers preloaded with Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chips, making it the latest major computer vendor to back Intel's top rival HP's move comes on the heels of decisions by IBM and Sun Microsystems to begin shipping machines with Opteron processors....
A new study by a researcher at Cornell University indicates people are more likely to be truthful in e-mail communications than in other media or even in face-to-face conversations. The report, to be unveiled in detail at a human-computer interface conference in Vienna, Austria, this spring, is believed to be the first study to examine truthfulnes...
Not long ago, TechNewsWorld published a story describing divergent conclusions reached by two recent studies of Web server market share. One, the latest in an ongoing series conducted by UK-based Netcraft, cast its net wide and surveyed a sample of more than 45 million Web sites. It concluded that open-source Apache controls some 67 percent of tha...
There has been so much buzz in recent years about various enterprise applications that it is no wonder many executives feel underinformed and overwhelmed. Want to provide your global sales force with a central location in which to monitor and update sales pipelines? Customer relationship management (CRM) software could make the difference. Frustra...
Microsoft has made available a beta version of its forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2, due in full form in the middle of this year. The beta is currently available to testers who will get a glimpse of the major security upgrade that many liken to an entirely new operating system The new Service Pack 2 beta version comes as the Redmond, Washingto...
At the RSA security conference in San Francisco Tuesday, chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices announced a new, security-enhanced Alchemy Au1550 network processor aimed at bolstering security without bogging down servers and applications AMD said the Au1550 -- armed to support both SSL and IPsec virtual private network (VPN) protocols with a true random...
After its successful push into the consumer electronics space in 2003, Gateway's branded introduction to the professional services space is problematic, according to Yankee Group SMB senior analyst Mike Lauricella. Specifically, Lauricella expresseddoubts about Gateway's ability to tap into the large enterprise market "They may find some success in...
When I first moved into management, I was a big fan of outsourcing. It has huge advantages if your eye is on the next higher job. It removes -- almost immediately -- the vast complexities of managing lots of people, and in most countries that includes racial issues, sexual issues, benefits, unions, taxes and moods. It also seems to make budgeting much easier, and it frees up massive amounts of your time -- at least initially.
In what's been called the "Academy Awards for Engineers," four distinguished figures in personal computer history will be awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize tonight at a dinner in Washington, D.C Sharing the US$500,000 prize will be Robert W. Taylor, Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson and Charles P. Thacker -- all key players at the celebrated comp...
Microsoft and RSA Security have said they will work together to develop authentication technology, making it easier to secure Windows and keep sensitive corporate information safe. The announcement came at RSA's annual security conference in San Francisco Specifically, Microsoft said it will use RSA's SecurID technology to offer an alternative to t...
With a rash of major virus outbreaks still fresh in their minds, network administrators and others will flock in record numbers to the annual RSA Conference this week, where they will be met with a flood of new product and service announcements aimed at quelling security and privacy fears RSA's event this year will feature a keynote address from Mi...
IBM and Nokia have unveiled the latest 9500 Communicator -- a BlackBerry-like handheld capable of running IBM and other enterprise office software applications on Nokia's Symbian operating system There is little doubt about the viability of Nokia-controlled Symbian -- a rival to Palm OS, Microsoft's Windows CE and embedded Linux -- for all types of...
Seeking to add clout to its fast-growing services business, Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to buy a Germany-based consulting firm for about US$420 million. The deal calls for HP to take over all three divisions of ThyssenKrupp Group's information technology consulting business: Triaton GmhB, which operates subsidiaries in Singapore, China and...
Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much of its shimmer....
Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much of its shimmer....
Although outsourcing has cast a long shadow over many IT professions and functions, there are glimmers of sunlight for U.S. employees involved in certain aspects of the computing industry For example, although it has been affected by outsourcing to some degree, research and development retains much of its shimmer....
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