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As the entertainment industry attempted this week to overturn a court ruling protecting the operation of file-sharing services on the Internet, two peer-to-peer outfits rolled out new products that could cause more hand-wringing among movie and music execs Los Angeles-based StreamCast Networks released a new version of its Morpheus peer-to-peer sof...
There are three locations on a Web search page: top, middle and down. A search engine report sometimes fits a single screen and at other times is a long list -- about 100 feet long! -- stretching over multiple pages, with each page featuring a manageable number of listings Therefore, a top position in a major search engine is defined as a citation ...
The world of data storage can be as confusing as Alice in Wonderland's Tulgy Wood to organizations seeking the best and most cost-efficient way to gather and save information. Acronyms abound -- SAN (Storage Area Network), NAS (Network Attached Storage), DAS (Direct Attached Storage), SAM (Storage Area Management) and HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) to name a few -- and trying to sift through them and arrive at the right choice can be enough to make an IT manager yearn for the days of file-cabinet forests...
In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server Netcraft's Web server findings, based on a survey of more than 47 million Web sites, have consistently i...
It may already be the de facto voice platform for the Internet, but this week the Voice XML 2.0 specification has moved closer to becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. The W3C, the body responsible for maintaining many of the core standards and protocols at the heart of the Internet, has published the new Voice XML 2.0 specification as a Proposed Recommendation...
Spammers are now targeting mobile phone subscribers throughout Asia, sending text messages through the ubiquitous short message service (SMS) system. The practice is generating concern at major technology companies like Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo about a potential emerging tsunami of unwanted e-solicitations Market research firm TNS Consulting indica...
Oracle has raised its bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft to about US$9.4 billion, or $26 per share. Oracle's amended offer is a little less than 19 percent higher than PeopleSoft's Tuesday closing price of $21.89 per share In response to the news, PeopleSoft's share price rose to $23.18 by midmorning Wednesday, while Oracle's share price dropped sligh...
A variant of the MyDoom worm sparked a data flood at Microsoft's main Web site Tuesday but had little effect The company was able to fend off the attack because it had ample warning that the malware would strike. Also, the variant, MyDoom.B, was less widespread than the first version, which hit an estimated 2 million PCs....
What do field sales employees, medical personnel and home-office workers connecting remotely to a central site have in common? A need for up-to-the-minute information. As a common method for near-instantaneous business communication, e-mail can be sent and received in many ways -- via pagers, cell phones and the like. One option that holds especial promise for increasing the timeliness of information flow is Web-based e-mail...
Major ISPs -- including Microsoft and Yahoo -- have indicated interest in an e-mail "stamp" approach that would charge bulk e-mailers 1 U.S. cent for each piece of e-mail in an effort to differentiate legitimate e-mail marketing from spam However, critics of the stamp approach -- which, in theory, is similar to the approach used by postal services ...
Microsoft on Monday issued a critical update bulletin affecting users of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. The cumulative update contains eight patches to prevent security breaches. The notice comes nearly a week ahead of the company's normal monthly update, planned for the second Tuesday of the month.
Big Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the "bigs" say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services should be held responsible for copyright infringem...
As reliance on and investment in e-commerce grows, so too does companies' overall investment in Web monitoring software and services. In 2002, the average Web analytics company saw sales increase 15 percent, according to Forrester Research. Solutions -- both for in-house and for external monitoring -- are available from a slew of companies, with costs ranging from free to thousands of dollars...
Laying the groundwork for the next generation of computer microprocessors that will push clock speeds higher, Intel has released new Pentium 4 desktop chips -- code-named "Prescott" -- that promise improved performance for both consumer and business users Intel said the desktop processors are the result of manufacturing technologies based on the ne...
While Apple may have lost the operating system battle to Microsoft, it has become a major player in the digital music market, thanks to the company's successful iPod player and iTunes online music store. However, Microsoft has managed to make its Windows Media Audio (WMA) music format the standard of nearly all other online music stores and players -- with the notable exception of PC partner HP, which recently announced a partnership with Apple to adopt its competing music format...
Last Thursday morning, the topic on the Today Show was the MyDoom worm. Matt Lauer, one of the show's two anchors, was interviewing an Internet expert and asked a question near and dear to my own heart: "Is this new virus cyberterrorism?" The expert said no, it was more like cyber vandalism. Clearly, IT experts are seeing a difference that many reporters and I don't see anymore. Even the Terrorism Research Center is now tracking the MyDoom virus...
The MyDoom virus has shut down the SCO Group's Web site in an attack that began Saturday night. In a preemptive move, the company removed its site IP address from the Internet's domain name system (DNS) at approximately 1 a.m. Eastern time, according to Web performance tracking firm Keynote Systems. SCO now is directing customers and others to a new site, www.thescogroup.com, that will be used until February 12th...
Now that e-tailers have a few strong holiday seasons behind them, many have learned it is never too early to start planning for next year Increasing levels of Internet use and greater comfort with online shopping among the overall population should make next year's critical November-December stretch rosy, despite continued fear of identity theft, a...
The future of the digital music industry is of vital import to a company like RealNetworks, which provides the RealPlayer platform for delivering digital media across a multitude of devices. RealNetworks also delivers subscription music through its digital jukebox, Rhapsody, and has just opened a download store Such an array of tactics is what it t...
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced its first Chinese member organization: Beijing Co-Create Open Source Software Company, Ltd., which plans to work on the Linux kernel and promote Chinese adoption of Linux on the desktop Beijing Co-Create is the second Far East organization to join OSDL this week. On Wednesday, NEC Soft, a divisi...
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