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One decade in and blogging has gone from a prosaic exercise in online journaling to a serious enterprise undertaken by so-called citizen journalists eager to bring stories to light that the mainstream media might otherwise overlook. The dogged determination of these passionate online journalists has...
There's no denying that the Internet has changed the world for both good and bad, but few elements of its dark side inspire more fear than its use by terrorists. Observers around the world were horrified when a video of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was disseminated on the W...
Network connectivity has quickly and quietly become necessary -- and is sometimes even taken for granted -- in today's high-tech, instant-communications environment. With the emergence of next-generation networks has come the need to comply with new, more stringent information security regulations a...
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...
Since they hit the Web in the mid-1990s, Web logs, more commonly known as "blogs," have matured from simple journal entries cataloging the day-to-day goings-on in the lives of Net dwellers to, in some cases, serious enterprises. Today, corporations, political parties and their partisans, the media a...
A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission. A fourth variation of the spam attac...
Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are...
Just a few years ago, picking broadband services and a pay television provider consisted of going with dial-up or DSL to access the Internet, and cable or satellite to get TV access. Consumers trying to make that decision today, however, have multiple options for a whole host of broadband, telecommu...
At the end of 2006, more than 100 million households in the United States subscribed to Internet services, cable or satellite television and other telecommunications services. By 2012, the number of new subscribers will increase by some 50 million households. As the technology behind Internet, pay T...
A Congressional committee last month gave universities with high volumes of student piracy violations 30 days to return a survey on Internet piracy and network practices. The committee is scheduled to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington. The letter hints that Congress is stepping up its crackd...
Businesses and large institutions dreaming of enforcing consistent security policies are finding solace in network access control -- programs that establish authentic users, identify network devices, perform integrity checks, take remedial actions and authorize access to information system resources...
At $30 million a ticket for orbital space travel and about $200,000 for suborbital trips, demand can only go so far. Before space tourism can really take off -- so to speak -- prices are going to have to come down, and that may require a new business model. While many early efforts have been single-...
Demand is high for a super system that can promise protection from external threats while organizations' networks, data and software applications become increasingly interconnected. Since Cisco Systems coined the term and released its first "network access control" system in 2003, interest in NACs h...
Digital cinema distribution and projection systems are gaining momentum, while the film industry is seeking new ways to pack theaters. The new formats not only offer film studios, distributors and cinema operators significant cost reductions, but also provide unrivaled viewing experiences that compe...
Before orbital travel becomes commonplace, there's another type of suborbital transit that will likely help fuel the orbital market while fulfilling a critical need in its own right. It's called "point-to-point transportation," and it would use suborbital travel to deliver cargo or people from one p...
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