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The Fall Processor Forum was held last week in the Silicon Valley. This show has become the counter to Intel's Developer Forum, and it probably should now be called "The Everything but Intel Microprocessor Forum." It kind of feels like the rebuttal in a presidential debate. Intel, as the incumbent...
Antivirus software is a required component for safe computing. Security experts warn that an unprotected computer straight out of the box and connected to the Internet will catch multiple virus infections in its first twenty minutes online. Antivirus software programs, however, are only reliable if ...
Search superstar Google rolled out a new short message service this week, delivering its search and other Internet data to mobile phones of several major vendors through text messaging. The company indicated it will be testing a beta version of the free service in the U.S., where text messaging has ...
California, a state that prides itself on experimentation and rebelliousness, has recently turned its attention to stem cell research issues. On the November ballot is Proposition 71, which proposes to create a new and expensive government-funded stem-cell research apparatus. While finding cures to ...
Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air. Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entert...
The fate of the controversial Induce Act that would restrict file-sharing technology that can be used to illegally download and share copyrighted material was in question today after negotiations between the music and electronics industries broke down as the current Congressional session nears an en...
Firing the latest salvo in the war over next-generation DVD formats, electronics companies Sony, Matsushita Electric and Sharp plan to release camcorders using the Blu-ray DVD format in 2005. The companies are working on a rewritable, 3-inch (8 centimeter) disc. Currently available discs are 12 cm, ...
A court decision that civil libertarians argue could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States will be reviewed again by federal judges in Boston. The ruling, handed down by a panel of three federal judges in June, found that e-mail service providers m...
Like many organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers noticed an ever-increasing volume of traffic on its frame relay network, which connects 42 field offices in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. "We had to find a way to continue to provide our users with adequate response time without...
A number of high-powered tech companies have banded together to create a "common antipiracy language." Ignoring the reality that if you can hear it, you can copy it, members of the Coral Consortium want to come up with a set of technology specifications "that will let different kinds of copy protect...
The integration of a fingerprint scanner into IBM's new ThinkPad T42 series of notebooks opens the door for a whole host of secure transactions, but some analysts suggest that there are still flaws in the system. Using fingerprints to confirm identification has become pervasive in the public sector,...
When was the last time you updated your anti-virus software? Even if you update your AV software frequently, there's still a gap between the time a virus is released into the wild on "day zero" and when virus fighters can update their programs to squash the malware. To truly secure a network, what's...
We are now moving into the countdown for Christmas, and it is time to start looking at some of the more interesting products you probably won't see at your local Best Buy. For an awfully long time, the affordable notebook products have been, well, butt ugly. You might have bought one anyway, but it ...
Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date because the clunky devices were costly, inconvenient and intrusive. All that could change this week when...
The second private space flight in a week piloted by history's second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize. The SS1 team, who will collect the prize officially at a pr...
