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Hot spots for making wireless connections to the Internet are popping up in places like MacDonald's, Starbuck's and Panera's, but WiFi remains just a side dish for outfits trying to make a buck from the technology. The hot spots are a premium service used to attract customers to their sponsors' loca...
Great Britain's On Demand Distribution (OD2) might be the biggest online music downloader in the region right now, but the company is preparing for battle with the likes of Apple's iTunes and the reborn Napster, unveiling this week its own digital jukebox that will provide pay-as-you-go music for ab...
Last week I attended the HP analyst conference and I suddenly realized that the dynamic surrounding the mess we currently have with consumer electronics has changed. For some time I've been concerned that we have been focusing, as an industry, way too much on technologies that engineers care about a...
The Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a critical six-minute trajectory correction maneuver May 27th to put it on course with its first encounter, Saturn's outermost moon Phoebe, set for June 11th. The spacecraft is operating normally and is in excellent health. "The maneuver is very critical...
It's not clear why the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) chose San Francisco, home of "Protesters R Us" and "Rent-a-Mob," for its annual convention this week. But one thing is for sure, the byproduct has been a measure of enlightenment, particularly concerning the protesters. These are 1960s...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly hot market, with new players such as Vonage touting the ability to deliver voice communications for less cost. While there are technical, regulatory and other issues that remain ahead for VoIP, security was highlighted as a chief concern...
The entertainment industry and civil liberties advocates have their dirks leveled at each other's throats again -- this time over a proposed California law aimed at protecting anonymous free speech on the Internet. While proponents of the legislation say it's needed to protect employees exercising t...
Spam is stuffing consumer and corporate e-mail inboxes with useless pitches for unwanted products and services. It is also clogging bandwidth and contributing to traffic congestion on the Internet. Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of all e-mail that enters inboxes every day is spam, unsol...
VeriSign's quarterly domain name report indicates that with more than 63 million registered domain names, the Internet's .com and .net top level domain (TLD) names are at an all-time high. At the same time, the number of domain names that are actually connected to working Web sites is also on the up...
NASA's solar-powered Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning on Thursday what controllers expect to be frequent use of an overnight "deep sleep" mode to stretch the robot's power supply. Opportunity has managed only one to two hours of activity on many recent days while it has been examining...
It's deja vu all over again. Napster 2 in Europe reloaded as the mainstream media players fell over each other to carry Big Music's message that the joyless online music stores it supplies and backs are all there is to online music. Only this time, instead of Napster 2, it's Apple's iTunes. Not to b...
Networking giant Cisco and server-level antivirus specialist Trend Micro have announced an extension of their existing collaboration to provide worm and virus detection-and-prevention services. A rough year of worm outbreaks and other security issues increased pressure on the San Jose-based company ...
FastTrack, once the darling of online file-sharers, appears to be losing its popularity. Reports in recent weeks -- as well as data gathered by Internet traffic tracker Alexa -- show a marked decline in files swapped on networks like Kazaa that use the FastTrack protocol. According to information po...
Junk e-mail, the way most computer users see it, has become more prolific than postal junk mail. It overloads inboxes and consumes valuable hours each day. Every day, e-mail users must weed through appeals to buy everything from phony products and stock offers to drugs and body-part enhancers -- not...
In an effort to change the fact that it is often easier to use an Internet search from Google to track down information than it is to find the same kind of content or data lying somewhere on a corporate network, IBM has unveiled a technology called DB2 Information Integrator. Big Blue said its new s...
