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Financial institutions are deploying new authentication technologies -- like graphical watermarks -- to hamper hackers who can somehow slip past biometric and token technologies, experts tell TechNewsWorld. "We've seen evidence of new Trojans that bypass most two-factor authentication devices -- e.g
Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an "always on" surveillance society. Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two ...
Television and other applications for video over the Internet got a boost this week with the announcement that telecom provider Alcatel and customer management software maker Amdocs were joining forces on services for Internet protocol-based TV, or IPTV. The companies said they were collaborating on...
It's a modern parental dilemma: Should children have cell phones? Hectic schedules make it convenient to be able to reach your 10-year-old when he's at swimming lessons and you're stuck in traffic. But if you decide to go that route, is your child responsible and mature enough to use the phone corre...
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company has announced that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute ...
Ethernet, the technology that currently dominates the desktop, is the most popular local area network, is prevalent in the data center and used in home networking, is now making inroads in the Wide Area Network (WAN). After an initial foray that failed for a number of reasons, carriers are using Eth...
Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week. In its recent report on PDAs -- defined to include...
Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet. In the announcement yesterday, Intel said it has tested the compatibility of laptops using Intel Centrino mobile technology and stamped the high-speed, in-flight service with its...
At first blush, the idea seemed a little wacky to me. But when drug store giant CVS announced its US$29.95 one-time-use digital video camera (DVC), I couldn't resist the temptation to check it out. The video cameras are made by a San Francisco outfit called Pure Digital Technologies, which last summ...
Is the Federal Communications Commission distorting statistics on broadband subscriber growth in the U.S.? An activist group in New York City thinks so, and has filed a complaint against the FCC, suggesting that the agency is inflating the figures for political purposes. Last week, TeleTruth, an all...
There is no doubting the importance of Windows Vista, formerly known as "Longhorn" and the successor to Windows 95 through XP, as it forms the foundation for Microsoft's future fortunes just as its predecessor did for the company in years past. Vista will be Microsoft's strongest response to competi...
Three years after tablet PCs made their way to market, shipments are markedly increasing and the next few years will show multibillion-dollar growth, according to research firm In-Stat. Referring to PCs that run Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, tablet PC shipments have yet ...
In a bold move to modernize America's outdated communications laws, this week Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) introduced the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. It's about time Congress embraced this issue, particularly since technology has vastly changed the way communications affect economi...
Major Hollywood movie studios announced this week that they, along with movie theater and technology industry players, have reached agreement on the specification for next-generation, digital film distribution and projection. The news comes amid sliding box office sales and heavy competition from ho...
In a move to compete against search rivals in the mobile phone market, AOL yesterday said it is testing a suite of new services in the United States that will allow cell phone users to scour the Web. The new beta services include AOL Search Service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. The...
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