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Phishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or "spoofed," e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need...
Apple FairPlay "consumer control" technology prevents people from playing iTunes tracks, which cost a dollar per track, on players Apple doesn't like, which is just about everything -- except iPods, of course. Apple wouldn't deal with RealNetworks to allow music from the RealPlayer music store to be...
With the close of part one of this column, my first reaction was to toss my cell phone from the car, to teach it who was in control. But the thought of the look on my bookkeeper's face when I would explain why I needed a new phone kept me from enjoying the experiment in high-speed trajectories. I re...
IBM has announced it is contributing its Java-based Cloudscape database software to the open-source community via the Apache Software Foundation, which will inspect the code and establish it as an open-source Java database to be called "Derby." IBM has been credited for supporting Linux and the open...
In a move expected to be a stimulant for the high-speed wireless market, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted an order to restructure frequencies within one of the several bands used for wireless broadband communication. Industry insiders maintain that the order, adopted on June 10 and ...
I've been watching the e-voting concerns increase as the related technology proliferates across the country and have come to the conclusion that we are once again seeing the government act first and think second. There is nothing inherently more unsecure with regard to electronically taking votes th...
The sight of commuters' heads bobbing up and down as they listen to music on their way to work may be replaced by intent gazes examining the previous night's episode of the "Sopranos" or the ninth inning of the baseball game. Manufacturers are hoping that the next big wave in personal entertainment ...
After years of struggling under a massive regulatory framework, the telecommunications industry is starting to see some positive change. Last week, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) admitted that current regulations stifle innovation, and today the American Legislative Exchange Co...
A trade group of technology companies has issued a policy statement urging Congress to take a close look at the controversial, so-called Induce Act. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) adopted a policy urging that "U.S. Senate legislation introduced to stem the growth of online piracy [Induce] shou...
Electronic Arts announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA will assume Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology. Under a previous agreement, Criterion's Bu...
Francis Crick, who helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson, has died at the age of 88, his family said on Thursday. Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego where he had been battling colon cancer. British-born Crick won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structu...
Virus writers busily scribbled code during the first half of 2004, introducing 4,677 new viruses into the wild, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a report released by Sophos, an international maker of antivirus and antispam software. "There's a greater interest in wr...
Two independent groups seeking to win a private, US$10 million space-travel contest known as the X Prize have announced they are closer to meeting the terms for the prize, with back-to-back, manned flights planned for the fall. The SpaceShipOne team, which achieved mankind's first private space flig...
Consumer devices, such as entertainment systems and home security products, are gaining intelligence and becoming more PC-like. As this occurs, users want to connect them to home local area networks and automate processes, such as moving music files from PCs to stereos or turning lights on and off.
Telecom and cable giants are moving quickly to keep up with innovations and opportunities surrounding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), one of the latest technology trends to draw aggressive strategies from companies such as AT&T and Verizon. As the larger, more traditional telecom and cable ...
