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Despite a recommendation from researchers to halt the project before it is applied in the upcoming primary elections, the United States is pushing forward with intentions to use an experimental Internet-voting system in the primaries and in the presidential election in November. The federally funded...
Internet music file traders who thought they were in the clear after a court ruling late last year might still find the Recording Industry Association of America looking for them and taking them to court. The industry association -- on a lawsuit campaign to stifle use of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks ...
Do you hate your cell phone but can't live without it? You're not alone. Nearly one in three adult Americans told researchers in a study released Wednesday that the cell phone was the invention they hated most but couldn't live without. Thirty percent of the adults in the researchers' sample put the...
In an effort to pair and propel two emerging technologies, IBM, HP, Akamai and other tech companies have proposed new specs to integrate grid computing with Web services. The companies, which announced the new WS-Notification and WS-Resource Framework specs, said the proposed standards represent the...
The legal and social debate over the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has made headlines since the days of Napster and Hotline -- and continues to be a major issue today. While there are certainly other hotspots in the tech industry, the P2P debate serves as a focal point for some of th...
A hornets' nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to "kill the Haitians" has prompted a South Florida city to approve -- at least initially -- a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami's Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes ...
Move over, pop-ups. There is a new Internet advertising format that promises television-quality video and audio without the usual stutters that typically have been associated with streaming media. Online advertising company Unicast unveiled this week its "video commercial" online ad format, which th...
Here in the United States, we are in the midst of regularly scheduled insanity where, as part of the process to elect our top government official, the party that opposes the current administration does its best to discredit all of its eligible candidates and then wonders why a sitting president is a...
If your name were Mike Rowe and you created Web site software, the thought of an Internet site at MikeRoweSoft.com might sound like a good bet. But as a 17-year-old Canadian named Mike Rowe has found out, that bet turned out to be risky. Redmond, Washington-based supercorporation Microsoft contacted...
A worm -- known as Bagle -- is spreading primarily among Asian and Pacific Rim computers. It does not disguise itself as porn, pictures from friends or funny jokes, yet its simplicity has already duped many users into running the attached executable and perpetuating its existence. Arriving with the ...
James Van Dyke had a hunch last year that the commonly held belief that the Internet was causing an increase in identity theft and credit card fraud was not valid. Extensive research he conducted debunks many of the myths about the correlation between online activity and ID theft. Contrary to popula...
Information technology researcher Meta Group predicts that less than half of all corporate computer users will use a desktop as their primary information device within two years. A new report from the research firm highlights the mobile-computing trend that has been boosted by lower laptop prices, i...
An established, clandestine network of compromised computers could become the launching pad for a superworm that would have a massive impact on the Internet. The malware network was created by an unpublicized Trojan -- a malicious program that poses as a benign one -- called Sinit, which has already...
VeriSign, the same company in charge of the .com and .net Internet registries, has been chosen by an international standards group to provide and run a root directory for a massive radio frequency identification (RFID) network considered to be the next evolution beyond bar codes. EPCglobal, a nonpro...
After skipping its December security update even after the publication of several new vulnerabilities -- some of which were used to perpetrate Internet crimes, such as identity theft and financial scams -- Microsoft has released several security patches as part of its new monthly security initiative...
