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It may seem simple, yet it is often overlooked. When it comes to choosing the right Internet hosting provider, the majority of business owners know very little about making the best decisions. What makes a good Internet host for a business Web site? What makes a bad one? How can the wrong host harm ...
Earlier today, at a developer's forum in Taipei, Taiwan, chipmaker Intel disclosed that it has developed two new, low-priced Itanium processors targeted toward the server market. Servers employing the new processors will be about 28 percent lower in price and up to 25 percent faster than earlier dua...
Iomega, one of the largest storage peripherals providers in the United States, began shipping a new drive today designed to go head-to-head against tape backup systems. The new REV drive, which comes in 35-GB and 90-GB capacities, consists of a drive housing plus the new REV removable media that is ...
Think that viruses and worms sent by e-mail are an IT security nightmare? Wait until you experience the next assault hackers are unleashing -- the browser-based attack. The second annual survey on IT security and the workforce conducted by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association -- a ...
While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mulls over what to do about services for making phone calls on the Internet, two legislators have decided that the U.S. Congress should get into the act. Sen. John Sununu (R-New Hampshire) and Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi) have filed bills in t...
It may be a one-time fluke or a sign of the broader economic recovery, but domestic music sales in the first quarter of this year increased dramatically for U.S. record labels. Fueled by sales from artists like Norah Jones and Usher, both of whom accomplished the now-unusual feat of selling 1 millio...
Public comments are due today at the Federal Communications Commission regarding a policy proposal instigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to bolster government surveillance of the Internet. Last month, the FBI, along with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Department of Just...
The topic of IT scams, both those done to IT folks and those done by IT folks, has come up several times in conversations over the last month. Since internal audit organizations are receiving massive increases in funding, staffing and provisioning, I thought it would be good to review some of the mo...
Like most countries boasting modern telecommunications systems, Australia has been implementing Voice over IP (VoIP) services. After a slow start, what began as a mild flirtation is now becoming an embrace, although use of VoIP technology is still in relatively early stages compared with market expe...
RealNetworks is warning users of some of its RealPlayer and RealOne media players to remove a plug-in that could allow a remote attack and the running of arbitrary code on their machines. While Real's media players are among the most popular user applications around, with more than 200 million deplo...
The group empowered with overseeing administration of Internet domain names and addresses has asked a federal court judge to dismiss antitrust and breach-of-contract claims leveled against it by VeriSign, which runs the registry for two of the most popular top-level domain extensions on the Internet...
What happens when you cross controversial peer-to-peer file-sharing technology with regulation-debated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone capability? Meet the new, free PocketSkype software, which enables VoIP-based calls on the Skype network using a WiFi-enabled PocketPC handheld device....
With the latest news from Harvard Business School that CD sales are plunging because the record industry is releasing fewer albums -- and not, as the RIAA is stating, because P2P file sharers are undermining sales -- isn't it time for you to release your own music? Remember those tunes you used to p...
What happens when you cross controversial peer-to-peer file-sharing technology with regulation-debated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone capability? Meet the new, free PocketSkype software, which enables VoIP-based calls on the Skype network using a WiFi-enabled PocketPC handheld device....
Many Americans are worried about outsourcing jobs to other countries, prompting President Bush to exalt the benefits of freer trade and Senator Kerry to argue for protectionist measures. But amid this political maneuvering, what's needed are solid suggestions for how to make America more competitive...
