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Beige boxes may still be the norm for a lot of desktop computer equipment, but people have been fooling around with design ever since they began making machines. Now that even Dick Tracy's wristwatch videophone is a reality, what's next for computers? While computer design has, by and large, stuck to the basic need for a protective enclosure, there have been some outstanding ideas and some duds over the years...
In stark contrast to the long waits typical for Windows users wanting to patch software vulnerabilities, recently discovered security weaknesses in the core of the Linux operating system were addressed by major vendors in a matter of just a few days this week Two security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's memory management code reported by secu...
Move over, parental warnings for explicit lyrics and violence, there's something more important: preventing piracy The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced with intellectual property purveyors -- including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Entertainment Software A...
Apple and Pepsi's iTunes giveaway, which promises a free music download coupon under 1 in 3 Pepsi bottlecaps, made a big splash with an ad aired during January's Super Bowl. Now, is the promotion on the rocks following disclosure of a tactic to identify winning bottles without purchasing them first? Not likely, according to analysts and Mac experts...
Hewlett-Packard said profits rose as sales improved in many of its business segments during its first fiscal quarter of 2004. Revenue totaled US$19.5 billion, up 9 percent from the same time frame in 2003. HP again turned a profit in all of its business units, marking just the second time it has done so since its merger with Compaq CEO Carly Fiorin...
A proposed federal lawsuit by a woman in New Jersey alleging racketeering by major music labels is "preposterous" and has little chance of prevailing, entertainment industry lawyers tell TechNewsWorld The forthcoming lawsuit by Michele Scimeca, said to be a countersuit against members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), comes a...
Spurred by rulings designed to improve corporate accountability, companies are scrambling to comply with an escalating burden of legislative record-keeping requirements -- and they are spending millions of dollars on consultants, lawyers, auditors and new technology in the process. Now, IBM has stepped up to the plate with an offering designed to ease the burden of compliance...
Voice over Internet Protocol pioneers Skype, Vonage and other voice-communications purveyors have been quietly generating huge user bases online. Market analysts are reporting that VoIP services stand poised to displace conventional telecommunications pricing models. Given the success of improved VoIP technology, industry pundits wonder whether traditional telecommunications technology will adapt or be pushed aside...
Adding incentive for companies to adopt its Internet Protocol (IP) telephony products, networking giant Cisco has announced new software and hardware to deliver broadcast-quality video and voice over IP networks Cisco said the addition of video will round out its IP communications offerings to allow a "rich-media videoconferencing experience" that ...
As operating system migration has become more of an issue, particularly for Microsoft administrators, the company has responded by releasing a beta version of Virtual Server 2004, which promises to pave a gentle migration path to Windows Server 2003 while working with older Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems While the compa...
A new worm known as Netsky.B emerged Wednesday. It is the second worm in the Netsky family; an earlier version, Netsky.A, was first identified Tuesday. According to Trend Micro's Web site, Netsky.B has an overall risk rating of medium, despite having a high potential for distribution and damage However, Chris Belthoff, senior security analyst at an...
The amount of Internet fraud perpetrated using a practice known as "phishing" increased 52 percent from December to January, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) In January, there were 176 new, unique attack types reported to the group, compared with 116 in December, the organization revealed in its monthly "Phishing Attack Trends Re...
Hoping to entice enterprises to plunge back into the information technology spending pool, Intel has unveiled a series of initiatives that it claims will make corporate computing inherently more secure and flexible The company, using the spotlight at the Intel Developers Forum to detail its vision of the future of enterprise computing, said several...
Various standards bodies and organizations are contributing to and competing for different Web services formats, but promoters of the new WS-Discovery specification say it will expand the market for Web services more than other specs by seamlessly connecting all kinds of devices -- including desktops and cell phones -- to the networked world. Detr...
In what a Recording Industry Association of America spokesperson described as "catching up to the pace we were at before," the RIAA has filed five new suits to ensnare another 531 computer users who allegedly have traded pirate music online The copyright lawsuit tactic first emerged last year in a spate of subpoenas based on the Digital Millennium ...
The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) commenced Tuesday with a statement that Intel will outfit its 32-bit Xeon server and workstation processors with 64-bit extensions. According to the company, this technology will become available in the second quarter of 2004 "Offering a broad lineup of solutions means that, when combined with the Itanium processor f...
Music fans who download songs from the Internet and share them with friends via P2P technology are still at risk for a copyright infringement claim -- and massive financial damages -- from the recording industry A ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late last year heartened many users of Kazaa, Morpheus and oth...
On this small planet, there is room for only one Yahoo, one Google and one Apple.After all, Yahoo takeoff YOOHOO failed, and online search engine Booble is nowfacing a court battle with Google There is also room for only one Windows, Microsoft's giant global brand, despitethe recent court ruling in Linux vendor Lindows' favor. After a prolonged bat...
Yahoo has given the boot to longtime partner Google, saying its own family ofsearch tools, based on its own technology, will now return results to its users.The move puts an end to what had become an increasingly awkward relationship The severing of ties, which Yahoo hintedat earlier this year, also sets the stage for a far more aggressive head-to-...
Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group has been working to meet the needs of the world's mobile service providers, including traditional wireless carriers and emerging third-generation (3G) mobile operators. The group believes that 3G spread-spectrum technology is the ideal way to address the future of wireless technology and help mobile operators create a sustainable 3G business.
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