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The threat of terrorism weighed heavily on United States senators holding an oversight hearing on the Transportation Security Administration Wednesday. The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was looking into the TSA's use of aggressive screening procedures for air traveler...
From the beginning of the social media revolution, it was obvious that the legal system was going to have trouble keeping up. It started when file-sharing sites like Napster trampled on copyright laws on their way to completely changing the way music is sold. Then, more than a few amateur bloggers...
Last week was an interesting week, with increasing coverage of the Oracle vs. SAP trial and word out that Larry Ellison had put a bounty out on HP's new CEO Leo Apotheker so his attorneys could chew him out on the stand for taking Larry's buddy's job. At the same time, Google gave its employees a w...
Once the pariah of the media world, peer-to-peer software has come a long way since the days of Napster and college kids with hard drives stuffed with pirated music. Now, current P2P software provider BitTorrent boasts 80 million users, which, as CEO Eric Klinker is quick to point out, is somewhere...
Google TV and Apple TV would have you believe "...we are now controlling the transmission ... the horizontal and the vertical..." in a pitch scraped straight from the intro to "The Outer Limits." But controlling the transmission, they're not. At least not yet. What viewers have now is an extremely f...
Because I've spent most of my working life writing about technology, people expect me to be among the first to adopt every new device and application that hits the market. It's because I follow tech trends closely that I'm seldom an early adopter. I know, for instance, that the first generation of a...
Tony Cass, the leader of the European Organization for Nuclear Research's database services group, outlined some of the challenges the organization's computer system faces during his keynote speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference, being held in San Jos...
Once upon a time, the word "hypertexting" referred to the process of linking one page of text to another through a specific Internet protocol. Now, public health researchers are using it to describe the practice of sending mobile phone text messages in the extreme: "hyper," as in lots, and "texting"...
You may recall that even though this is a technology column, I did predict that Nancy Pelosi would be a problem for Obama, and that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina would lose. What was missing in all three cases is leadership. In the technology market, the most visible leader is Apple and the str...
Microsoft's Kinect game device has been flying off retailers' shelves since its release Thursday, according to reports. So far, some users have been impressed with the video game device's ability to track a player's body movement, while others have discovered problems with it. The Kinect for Xbox 36...
SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that offers a mobile real-world game of the same name, announced on Tuesday that it's going global. SCVNGR's a social game based on geo-location that lets players link up with friends on Facebook and Twitter. The game's simple -- players check in to different spots, su...
Google's wow factor is still at large -- this time in a self-driving car that's tootling about California in a series of test runs. It's easy to get carried away with the dream of a personal (albeit automated) chauffeur and the implied robotic "get out of jail free card." The inebriated and textholi...
Nearly one in four stars similar to the sun may host planets as small as Earth, according to a new study funded by NASA and the University of California. Astronomers used the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii for five years to search 166 sun-like stars near our solar system for planets of various size...
This may be election week, but the big political battle isn't really the mid-term elections -- it's the drama going on between Oracle and HP with the unprecedented action of Oracle's CEO and founder calling HP's new CEO a thief in what appears to be a massive pre-emptive effort to discredit the man....
Samsung is reported to be working on the Google Nexus Two smartphone that will run Gingerbread, the latest version of the Android operating system. The buzz is that Samsung will unveil the phone at a press conference it called for Nov.8. However, Samsung's website indicates it will debut the Focus, ...
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