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In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals. In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the publi...
In a lukewarm endorsement of a bounty system for spammers, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said offering US$100,000 to $250,000 to whistleblowers inside the spamming community would help catch the online criminals. In a report assessing the feasibility of a system that rewards members of the publi...
When politicians express interest in designing technology standards, the nation's tech community should be greatly concerned and react appropriately. One of those times is now and the issue is radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. RFID tags are like the bar codes on a cereal box but different ...
At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons. Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a c...
Eastman Kodak and IBM will team up to develop new image sensors for digital cameras and camera phones, Kodak said in a statment. The agreement seeks to combine Kodak's image sensor technology with IBM's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing expertise. Kodak hopes to use the techn...
Just as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a significant competitor to traditional telephone services and has grown more pervasive in U.S. homes and businesses, television via high-speed Internet is becoming a reality as both broadband and competition grow. Evidence of the broadband ...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement. The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to X...
By selling "product" at half price, RealNetworks has climbed into second place in the corporate music market dominated by Apple. That was Real's claim at the conclusion of its 49-cents-a-pop download offer, under which it sold three million tracks to spotlight its Harmony application that lets songs...
Nokia said that it has applied for membership in the SD Card Association and has signed a licensing agreement for enabling the use of SD memory cards in its devices. According to a statement, Nokia will continue to support MultiMediaCards (MMC) that are currently widely used in Nokia's mobile device...
As students all across the United States were getting ready to head back to school, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was busy beefing up its prolonged attack on consumer fair use rights and emerging consumer technologies. In a quietly-submitted letter dated August 16, 2004, lawye...
Two new computer worms have security experts both worried and wondering. One new virus is now capable of monitoring a network to steal passwords or other information, and another virus can hijack the voice capabilities of Windows XP to announce its presence to users. Experts agreed that the network ...
In an effort to defend its dominance in router technology, Cisco has released three new multifeature routers aimed at smaller businesses and branch offices. The new routers, known as the 1800, 2800 and 3800, represent an upgrade from Cisco's previous offerings and also highlight an emerging class of...
We just had a back-to-school flop. There was no apparent marketing of technology products, particularly PCs. And, surprise, we now have inventory problems and companies are warning that Christmas might not materialize as a major buying event either. Given how fragile the technology recovery is -- or...
As it has been suing thousands of computer users accused of illegally trading copyrighted music online with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, the Recording Industry Association of America has also been polluting P2P networks with bogus and corrupted media files to discourage P2P use. Now the industry g...
VeriSign has implemented an enhancement, called "rapid updates," to its .com and .net Domain Name System (DNS) servers. Previously, VeriSign updated DNS servers for .com and .net twice each day by generating a file from its .com and .net registry database and globally distributing it to all 13 of th...
