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Last week California's Public Utilities Commission had an opportunity to undo some of the damage price controls have wreaked on the telecom sector. Instead it clung to a losing strategy that rewards sloth and punishes innovation. The PUC approved a below-cost wholesale rate that SBC can charge compe...
More than 10,000 students depend on Jill Cherveny-Keough for trustworthy computing systems. As director of academic computing at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Cherveny-Keough must ensure that dozens of computing centers across the college's campuses run without a hitch. Fall is an esp...
You knew it was coming, and now it's here -- the latest evil spurred by the latest Microsoft security hole. It's called the JpegOfDeath, but JPEG isn't all it threatens. "[F]or the people out there who think you can only be affected through viewing or downloading a JPEG attachment... you're dead wro...
PalmSource is paving a path for its operating system (OS) to suit phone capabilities in the small but growing smartphone market. Previously limited to handheld personal digital assistants, which have not grown at nearly the same rate as mobile phones, PalmSource says its latest Cobalt OS, version 6....
Telecommunications carriers see the future, and it is voice over IP services. This technology enables them to roll out high-speed multimedia services to consumers and businesses faster and at a lower cost than traditional Public Switched Telephone Network services. While those features are alluring,...
A little over a decade ago the market for aftermarket radios and gear for cars was relatively robust. At that time most car companies used standard-sized radios, and if you wanted to upgrade it was a relatively simple task. That isn't the case anymore. Radios are increasingly designed-in to cars and...
The blast-off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will deploy a replacement crew for Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, who have manned the orbital platform since April.
Sony, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkman cassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digital players, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3. Sony's MP3 move is a departure from its earlier policy of supporting only its own Atrac format, w...
This week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a study on the outsourcing of jobs overseas, prompting at least two Seattle-based unions to call for government action. But while protectionism might be a typical reaction, America's future depends on embracing trade. The reasons to support gre...
Touting research that showed the world's DSL broadband connections grew by more than 30 million subscribers in the year ending in June, the DSL Forum claimed the broadband technology is doubling and dominating broadband cable connection growth. Analysts pointed out that there was a sizeable gap betw...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
Bill Xia, CEO of Dynamic Internet Technology, a company which runs services aimed at allowing Chinese people to access unfiltered news, says Google is helping Chinese authorities to maintain an online "matrix" that keeps people from finding out what's happening outside the country's borders. DIT was...
In the financial workplace, e-mail and instant messaging (IM) are becoming essential enterprise tools. Once the province of teens chatting with their friends, instant messaging is now relied on by brokerage firms and other financial companies to maintain contact with clients. An ever-increasing numb...
The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation has issued a report providing strong guidance on how to assess exposure for personal technology, with a heavy focus on personal computers. The report is titled "PC Management Best Practices: A Study of the Total Cost of Ownership, Risk, Security...
The Recording Industry Association of America is continuing to wage its war against peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. On August 25, the RIAA filed new copyright infringement lawsuits against 744 individuals on a variety of peer-to-peer platforms, including eDonkey, Limewire, Grokster and Kazaa. Me...
