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Imagine you're the CEO of a major bank. Now, imagine paying more and more for security guards, only to find that the risk is increasing, not decreasing, due to threats that can't be countered by security guards. That's the situation facing today's CIOs and software managers, who continue to increase...
The movie industry's latest effort to subjugate file sharers and the P2P networks by taking over LokiTorrent, a well-known BitTorrent site, is still a hot topic. The entertainment industry's principal weapon is fear. Like all bullies, it picks on people who can't defend themselves. The RIAA and MPA...
This week is the RSA Conference 2005, and today I'm doing one of the opening talks at a Trusted Computing Group lunch. I'm trying to find a nice way to say that I think the most common approach to security problems these days is completely whacked, but I have struggled with the "nice" part. Here ar...
Mark Menarik, CEO of Chicago-based TanCher, believes that a new PDA designed for students can foster a revolution in teaching with technology. His innovation could herald a breakthrough in mobile computing platforms if his plan succeeds. According to Menarik, the shapes of the BlackBerry and Treo ar...
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia project among others, said Google has offered to host part of the free encyclopedia's content. Wikipedia's entries are written and edited in an open-source, collaborative fashion by members of the online community. It i...
The movie industry won a court ruling against movie and TV show download service LokiTorrent.com this week, shuttering the site almost immediately after a U.S. District Court in Dallas sided with the industry and declared the site could be taken down. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)...
Most people ignore state public utilities commissions, but this week the California PUC released a well-written report that deserves attention. "Broadband Deployment in California" contains a wealth of facts and identifies key policy problems responsible for slowing broadband rollout and economic gr...
The University of Calgary is at it again. The Canadian school gained some notoriety two years ago when its computer science department launched a course on computer viruses, which included, as part of the coursework, writing a virus. This week, the brains behind the virus course, Assistant Professor...
Every day, employees are bombarded by an avalanche of messages: voice mail items on their desktop and mobile phones, notes on their pagers, e-mail, a fax or two, and perhaps a number of sticky notes taped to their computer screens. At the same time, because of recent technical advances, users are pr...
Google today offered up a new way to search the information superhighway for the best routes on terra firma's highways with a beta release of Google Maps. Some are already touting the site as a vast improvement over offerings from Yahoo and Mapquest. "This launch may not have the fanfare associated ...
Efforts to harmonize international copyright laws have been in progress since the late 19th century, but the rise of the digital medium has thrust the movement back into the limelight recently. More than any other medium, the Internet has taken the copyright and intellectual property environment and...
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