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A hornets' nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to "kill the Haitians" has prompted a South Florida city to approve -- at least initially -- a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami's Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes a $250 fine on anyone who sells or rents to minors without their parents' consent games in which players kill or cause harm "to a human form."
Move over, pop-ups. There is a new advertisement on the Internet promising television-quality video and audio without the usual stutters that typically have been associated with streaming media across the Internet Online advertising company Unicast unveiled this week its "video commercial" online ad format, which the company said is capable of deli...
Following the lead of high-profile Linux vendors HP and Novell, Red Hat has announced it will offer legal protection to all existing and future customers of its enterprise installations of the open-source operating system The company said its Open Source Assurance program will include an "intellectual property warranty" that indemnifies customers a...
Here in the United States, we are in the midst of regularly scheduled insanity where, as part of the process to elect our top government official, the party that opposes the current administration does its best to discredit all of its eligible candidates and then wonders why a sitting president is almost always reelected for another term Each candi...
Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled its new InterSpect integrated security appliance. According to the company, InterSpect works to protect enterprise networks from attacks that originate internally. Gene Manyak, product marketing manager at Check Point, told the E-Commerce Times that the new appliance protects businesses from applicati...
If your name were Mike Rowe and you created Web site software, the thought of an Internet site at MikeRoweSoft.com might sound like a good bet. But as a 17-year-old Canadian named Mike Rowe has found out, that bet turned out to be risky Redmond, Washington-based supercorporation Microsoft contacted Rowe regarding his domain name last November. Afte...
A worm -- known as Bagle -- is spreading primarily among Asian and Pacific Rim computers. The worm does not disguise itself as porn, pictures from friends or funny jokes, yet its simplicity has already duped many users into running the attached executable and perpetuating its existence Arriving with the subject line "Hi" and body text of "Test, yep...
Signaling that 2004 likely will be a year of solid growth for the technology industry, IBM has raised its hiring forecast, saying it plans to hire 15,000 new employees in the coming year The new outlook represents a 50 percent increase in the amount of hiring Big Blue envisions. Last fall, IBM indicated it could add up to 10,000 new workers in key ...
James Van Dyke had a hunch last year that the commonly held belief that the Internet was causing an increase in identity theft and credit card fraud was not valid. Extensive research he conducted debunks many of the myths about the correlation between online activity and ID theft Contrary to popular opinion, Van Dyke, a research analyst for Javelin...
Earlier this week, Microsoft posted a security patch for a flaw that affects control of VoIP (voice over IP) traffic in its Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000. The company rated the flaw's severity as critical and urged users to patch it immediately According to the Microsoft Security Bulletin released last Tuesday, the security vulnera...
In a somewhat uncharacteristic announcement about Linux, Hewlett-Packard said its revenue from the open-source operating system and connected products and services hit record levels in 2003, earning the Palo Alto, California-based company US$2.5 billion, an increase of about a half-billion dollars from last year HP, which led the hot Linux server m...
Redirecting its wireless course after betting on the weaker of two technologies, Intel has introduced an 802.11g wireless network connection aimed at boosting the speed and capability of wireless local area networks (WLANs) The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said its new PRO/Wireless 2200BG network connection -- a standards-based 802.11 W...
Microsoft has lost its bid to have a US$512 million patent-infringement award thrown out of court. Instead, a federal judge ruled that a jury acted properly in awarding the payout to Eolas Technologies and the University of California The award stems from an August 2003 ruling that Microsoft infringed on patents held by the university and Eolas. Th...
Because of his background in assembly-level programming and low-level C coding on machines with slow CPUs and very little RAM, David Wren, PassMark Software's founder, had a strong interest in coding efficiency and computer performance. It was from this interest that PassMark's benchmark application, PerformanceTest, was born in 1998. At that time, many of the available performance-benchmarking utilities were narrowly focused and were only suitable for use by other programmers. Many of the utilities, for example, were distributed as source code and required compilation into an executable form by the user before they could be used...
The Internet population of China continues to grow and now totals nearly 80 million people, according to a new report released this week. According to the report, there were only 620,000 Chinese Internet users in 1997 With a total population of more than 1.2 billion people, China represents the largest potential Internet market in the world. The U....
Information technology researcher Meta Group predicts that less than half of all corporate computer users will use a desktop as their primary information device within two years. A new report from the research firm highlights the mobile-computing trend that has been boosted by lower laptop prices, increased mobile performance and the popularity of wireless connectivity...
The technology sector roared out of the gate with strong earnings reportsfrom IBM, Yahoo and Apple. Optimism about strong sales and profits wasmuted only by somewhat cautious outlooks for the coming year The reports brimmed with good news about the end of 2003. IBM beatexpectations with US$25.9 billion in revenue, a 9 percent jump, anda healthy pro...
An established, clandestine network of compromised computers could become the launching pad for a superworm that would have a massive impact on the Internet The malware network was created by an unpublicized Trojan -- a malicious program that poses as a benign one -- called Sinit, which has already infected hundreds of thousands of computers, accor...
Many e-businesses, whether they sell physical goods or more intangible services, are casting a covetous eye at the vast potential of the international market After all, the world population is growing. As just one example, China is expected to have a population of 1.48 billion by 2050, according to the International Institute for Applied Systems An...
Intel has revealed that its fourth-quarter revenues reached a record US$8.74 billion, with net income of $2.2 billion, or 33 cents per share -- more than double the year-ago tally. While some of those profits resulted from a tax break of approximately 9 cents per share, the company also took a $611 million writedown in the quarter Calling Intel a b...
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