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It sounds tremendously obvious to say it this way, but applications are everywhere. Think about it. Your office suite, your e-mail reader, even the software you're using right now to read this -- these are just a fraction of the thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of applications you use d...
Electronic payment systems create an ecosystem -- the actions of one participant have an impact on all. This has been seen repeatedly when a single organization fails to protect consumers' payment data, resulting in increased costs for all retailers and banks. Each time there is a breach, such as t...
The laptop computer has been gaining on traditional desktop PCs for some time. Replacing one's desktop completely with a portable computer that has enough power to handle any common task is now a feasible option for consumers, and more are heading that direction. Laptops are siphoning off sales of d...
As colleges and universities nationwide began installing broadband access to their dorm rooms and apartments years ago, they gave students convenient, at-home access to unprecedented amounts of information. The trend also played a significant role in opening the door to peer-to-peer file-sharing net...
Tilera Corporation, a startup semiconductor company, has launched its first product -- what it's calling the "world's highest performance embedded processor" -- at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. The product is the TILE64 processor, a 64-core processor with an architecture that Tile...
Sonos, which sells wireless, multi-room home audio systems, has introduced new software that allows users to access Sirius Internet Radio. Called "Sonos System Software v 2.3," the new offering enables Sonos owners with Sirius subscriptions to access Sirius programming and control their listening wi...
The face of the Internet is rapidly changing. For instance, Web maps are no longer about finding your house online. A few years ago, map-making power remained in the hands of specialists. Today, map-making power is within everyone's grasp. In the past two years, Web giants like Google, Microsoft and...
Virtualization rootkits, Web application security and Voice over IP attack vectors topped Gerhard Eschelbeck's list of the top three biggest issues at this month's Black Hat USA conference, held Aug. 1 and 2 in Las Vegas. Eschelbeck is chief technology officer and senior vice president of security v...
It's now a well-known fact that on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog, but when it comes to Internet telephony, the bigger concern is that no one might know where you are either. Dial 911 for emergency assistance, and you could be out of luck, as some well-publicized lawsuits have shown. Voice ...
Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don't put anyone in jail. What is needed is convincing evidence of exactly who did what, where and when. The same can be said for net...
The iPhone continues to do well for a device of its price and class, but the product that is likely to really break open the segment for Apple is the anticipated lower cost, more limited, smaller nano offering. The product in the market that is most similar to what the nano is likely to be is the Ne...
This last week, I was introduced to a Linux-based PC that has the potential to out Apple by using a combination of open source software, Linux and Web 2.0 concepts. I revisited another product that I think could free us from image management and enable us to use whatever PC we want, at work or home,...
Nintendo unveiled a new game developing tool for its Wii video game console Wednesday. The company hopes the WiiWare tool will attract budding game programmers as well as experienced independent game makers interested in putting their programming skills to the test on the next-generation console and...
Game personalization, or soft modding, has been a hobby among hardcore gamers for at least a decade. In recent years, however, the underground pastime has been gaining popularity, so much so that the art of creating a personalized version of a video game is even being taught at summer cyber camps. I...
Adobe Systems has released the beta version of its new runtime software, Adobe Integrated Runtime -- formerly called "Apollo." The software allows Web-native applications to run just like desktop programs. The new tool and Adobe's next version of its Flex development environment -- called "Moxie" an...
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