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Jerry Ungerman, president of firewall leader Check Point Software Technologies, oversees the company's worldwide sales, marketing, business development, product management and technical services. In this role, he helps Check Point provide its customers and partners with integrated network security solutions The E-Commerce Times spoke with Ungerman ...
IBM and Philips announced a joint initiative to collaborate on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for companies using supply-chain software The two companies are major players in the RFID market, which is expected to generate between US$1 and $3 billion within four years. Confident of the RFID technology's benefit, Philips said it wil...
At this time of year in the United States we have a tradition: It is called Super Bowl Sunday. In this annual tradition, we spend prodigious sums of money to have an extremely large TV installed in our homes, have lots of friends over to watch a bunch of guys run up and down a big lawn, and then fail to actually watch the game because we are too busy eating and talking. It doesn't matter anyway because the two teams playing are generally so mismatched that the outcome is almost always known in the first 15 minutes or so...
In the world of P2P client software, there are two major contenders to the throne: Kazaa and Morpheus. In contrast to the many lesser-known file-sharing clients, both Kazaa and Morpheus have astonishingly high download numbers. Sharman Networks, which makes the Kazaa P2P application, claims the Kazaa client has been downloaded more than 315 million times. According to Download.com, there have been more than 119 million downloads of Morpheus since April 2001...
On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century Einstein published not one, but two theories of relativity: th...
PKWare and WinZip, companies that have been competitors in the world of the popular Zip file format, have called a truce on the latest versions of their products in hopes of cultivating greater interoperability between the two companies' file-compression and decryption technologies As we reported last November in the TechNewsWorld feature "The End ...
Waiting for a PC to boot up can be quite boring. Who wants to sit there and watch the Microsoft Windows hourglass graphic for a seemingly interminable amount of time? This problem has plagued the PC industry for years. But a solution could be at hand, at least for entertainment PCs -- those PCs built around Microsoft's new Windows XP Media Center E...
As a result of a copy-protection secret being made public, individuals who posted instructions on the Internet that outlined how to use software to break DVD copy protection are off the hook after a long legal battle A copyright owners group known as the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) -- mainly composed of Hollywood studios and copy-protect...
Branching out into yet another area of the Web, search engine Google has quietly unveiled a social-networking site designed to compete with the fast-growing Friendster. Like Friendster, an invitation from an existing member is required to join the site, known as Orkut, which breaks free of its parent in many ways, lacking the distinctive, stripped...
As the new year swings into high gear, e-business seems to be better positioned than it has been for years, with a rosy economic outlook ahead and a strong holiday season just past. Of course, 2004 will bring challenges too, including legal issues that will have to be addressed or at least closely watched Which dilemmas are most likely to determine...
Despite a recommendation from researchers to halt the project before it is applied in the upcoming primary elections, the United States is pushing forward with intentions to use an experimental Internet-voting system in the primaries and in the presidential election in November The federally funded online absentee voting system in question -- which...
If you were to make up your own list of the top 10 issues likely to affect computing over the next five to 10 years, would you include liability reform in the American legal system? I think you should, even if you live, as I do, in Canada or some other country where American law doesn't apply directly. Change is coming, and that change will affect anyone who works with hardware or software made or sold by American companies...
Internet music file traders who thought they were in the clear after a court ruling late last year might still find the Recording Industry Association of America looking for them and taking them to court The industry association -- on a lawsuit campaign to stifle use of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and applications such as Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokst...
Do you hate your cell phone but can't live without it? You're not alone. Nearly one in three adult Americans told researchers in a study released Wednesday that the cell phone was the invention they hated most but couldn't live without Thirty percent of the adults in the researchers' sample put the cell phone at the top of their necessary evils lis...
Digital music has been around for years, but the legitimate online musicindustry did not attract a critical mass of consumers until Apple's iTunes Music Store launched. In fact, expectations were so low that Apple wooed record labels to license their music to iTunes by promising there would be more than 1 million downloads within the first six months. The company reached that mark by the end of the first week.
In an effort to pair and propel two emerging technologies, IBM, HP, Akamai and other tech companies have proposed new specs to integrate grid computing with Web services The companies, which announced the new WS-Notification and WS-Resource Framework specs, said the proposed standards represent the first availability of a common, standards-based in...
A new program offered by IBM could have a major impact on Windows users' move to Linux, industry insiders speculate IBM on Tuesday announced it is offering training to its business partners, gratis, on migration from Windows NT to Linux. The company also is providing financial incentives to move from Windows NT. Those incentives will consist of dis...
On Tuesday, The SCO Group accused Novell of libel, claiming Novell has interfered in bad faith with SCO's Unix copyrights. SCO's lawyers filed the lawsuit in state court in Utah, where both companies' headquarters are located, asking for "preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, as well as damages." "SCO takes this action today given Novell's r...
Buoyed by a wave of consumer demand for personal computers, number-two chipmaker AMD's business turned profitable during the last quarter of 2003 for the first time in more than two years AMD said it earned about US$43 million in the fourth quarter, a dramatic turnaround from its year-ago loss of $854 million. Revenue reached $1.16 billion, slightl...
The legal and social debate over the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has made headlines since the days of Napster and Hotline -- and continues to be a major issue today. While there are certainly other hotspots in the tech industry, the P2P debate serves as a focal point for some of the most important issues of the day, such as security, personal privacy and copyright law...
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