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The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), formerly called the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG), today announced the availability of the Home Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines 1.0. A year in the making, the Interoperability Guidelines define the design principles necessary to move conte...
Cisco announced today a new technology, called the Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network, that is designed to provide broadband wireless access for government agencies across an entire city. With a unified IP network foundation, the Cisco Metropolitan Mobile Network is designed to offer mobile access to...
COLSA Corporation has purchased 1,566 dual-processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5 servers from Apple to build a new supercomputer that the company hopes will be one of the fastest in the world. The supercomputer, named MACH 5, is expected to deliver a peak performance capability of more than 25 te...
MTI MicroFuel Cells, a developer of miniaturized fuel cells for handheld electronics, today introduced a technology based on direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) technology. According to the company, the new technology, called Mobion, represents several scientific breakthroughs that the company believes...
A 62-year-old pilot flew a craft 62 miles from Earth to the edge of space, becoming the world's first privately backed, civilian astronaut and edging a team funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen closer to the X Prize, the cup of the modern space race. Pilot Mike Melvill's flight to suborbital s...
Every few years we have to take a deep breath and get ready for change, especially now as the personal computer industry will be adjusting to accommodate the technology changes that have defined it for the last several decades. We are entering another time for big changes, which will be hitting seve...
Crime is turning from a blue-collar to a white-collar profession. Rather than taking out guns and robbing convenience stores, criminals are performing "virtual robberies" where they use computer technology to steal a person's identity. From a criminal perspective, these crimes are simple to commit, ...
Last week brought some good news for those who wondered if the Bush administration would ever act to clean up the nation's telecom mess. The Bush administration has finally taken its first real step toward its goal of ubiquitous broadband. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who represents the fe...
Intel and Proxim today announced a collaboration to develop WiMAX technologies for portable broadband wireless access. The agreement includes the development of base station and subscriber unit access points that deliver wireless access for data, voice and video services. WiMAX, known also as IEEE 8...
File-sharing appears to boost music CD buying, according to survey results released by Warez.com, a maker of file-sharing software. The online survey, which reportedly has been taken by some 150,000 people, shows that the purchasing of music increases slightly for some consumers after they discover ...
Suggesting that the federal Can-Spam Act of 2003 doesn't pack a big enough punch to curtail electronic mail spam, state lawmakers around the country are creating their own regionalized antispam laws. The New Jersey legislature is the most recent to join the movement to toughen antispam regulations.
Akamai Technologies confirmed Wednesday that its distributed network and servers -- which help serve major Web sites including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others -- came under attack Tuesday, calling the denial of service (DoS) "a sophisticated, large-scale attack." Akamai -- which also sa...
What's so great about the 70 million or so downloads Apple says iTunes managed in more than a year, compared to the one billion (at a conservative estimate) that happen on the peer-to-peer networks every month? The "one billion" figure, which comes from industry observer Big Champagne, helps make th...
Many consumers who are accustomed to paying $1.00 per song and a minimum of $10.00 per album from iTunes, MusicMatch or Napster typically raise an eyebrow suspiciously at the prospect of AllofMP3.com, a service that charges users roughly five cents per song and offers nearly all its music in AAC, MP...
Yahoo took its turn this week at raising its level of e-mail storage space, announcing that paying customers would get 2 GB of storage -- double what Google's beta Gmail service provides. Users of Yahoo's free e-mail service will also get a boost -- up to a whopping 100 MB of free storage. The move ...
