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In a move that makes Jim Carrey's character in "The Cable Guy" look angelic, the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) recently circulated a letter to Sacramento lawmakers in an attempt to scare them into protecting cable's dominant video market position. It's now easy for cable...
A new report issued at a press conference held by the six major television networks this week said digital video recorders (DVR) increase viewership. But advertising agencies are still holding fast to their displeasure with the technology. According to the networks, homes with a DVR watched 5.7 hour...
Just days after Sony decided to drop its controversial anti-piracy software on its CDs, more bad news has surfaced for the music giant: Sony's uninstall program makes the computer even more vulnerable to malware. Princeton researcher J. Alex Halderman posted instructions for how to find out if your ...
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today shared his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation during his keynote speech at Supercomputing 2005. Of course, part of his vision includes the software giant's Windows Compute Cluster Serve...
Wireless carrier Cingular announced yesterday it had teamed up with MobiTV to offer MobiRadio. For US$6.99 a month plus kilobyte use fees, Cingular subscribers with radio-ready handsets can stream any of 44 commercial-free radio channels directly to their handsets. The stations, programmed by Music ...
Amid much public debate and reports that it could leave consumers wide open for malicious attacks, Sony has decided to halt the insertion of anti-piracy software into its CDs. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) system limits the number of times a CD can be copied. The software installs itself on Wi...
House Democrats today will introduce a new "innovation" strategy for the U.S. economy in a speech at the National Press Club by House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi. After convening a number of regional roundtables with business, technology and academic leaders across the United States, House D...
IBM's speed in the supercomputer world remains unchallenged today. The company not only maintained its hold on the top ranking spot among all supercomputers with its Blue Gene/L System, which doubled its own speed in the Top500 biannual listing of the world's fastest machines, but Big Blue built the...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Google was on track to become the next "Evil Empire" because they were increasingly behaving as if they were the center of the universe. The central theme of the piece was how companies, particularly those that grow very quickly, can lose track of their ethics...
Every business manager can remember some hellish, hair-pulling scene resulting in missed deadlines and dead-in-the-water deals all in the name of IT gone wrong: Printers wouldn't talk to computers; a virus choked up network traffic for days; servers crashed; or a traveling rep didn't have the right ...
The FTC said three individuals operating out of California under the name Enternet Media, and the affiliate operator of Iwebtunes, were charged with unfair and deceptive practices in violation of the FTC Act. The Commission said it was seeking a permanent ban on the practices and redress for consume...
Imagine a world where China argues for guaranteed freedom of speech and Cuba and Iran push for democracy. If that sounds like an episode of "The Twilight Zone," then welcome to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's new show set to air again next week in Tunisia. Readers should know that the reason these...
The United States Supreme Court dealt online file sharing a body blow in June when it ruled that makers of peer-to-peer (P2P) software could be held liable for illegitimate uses of their applications. Since that decision was handed down in MGM v. Grokster, the P2P world has been floundering, bobbing...
There aren't many tech outfits that can rival Apple Computer when it comes to industrial design, but in the keyboard department, there's one company that can give the Cupertino crew a run for their money. What's most surprising about the company is that it's not really known for its hardware. Softwa...
Juniper Networks today made three announcements about new product enhancements and the companies that have deployed them. But behind the product hype, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based hardware maker has quietly stepped into the midst of one of last summer's hottest technology controversies. Technology ne...
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