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Some 450 leaders from the U.S. renewable industry's policy, financial and technology sectors assembled on Capitol Hill on November 29-30, meeting with members of Congress and government agency officials during the American Council on Renewable Energy's fifth annual national policy conference. Broadb...
Blogging has taken the Internet by storm over the past few years as part of the social networking phenomenon, but Gartner analysts predict that the number of community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Less than 2 percent of all Internet users are frequent content contributors, accor...
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., caused a political firestorm recently when he said he wanted to reinstate a military draft. His radical proposal brings to light a growing theme that both political parties should consider very closely. In a world where science provides better health and improves the pro...
One of the Internet's leading innovators is offering a helping hand to other innovators. Google on Wednesday introduced a new Web site that facilitates searches for U.S. patents by keyword, patent number, inventor and filing data. Google Patent Search is still in the beta stage, but it offers users ...
IT guru Robin Bloor has thrown down the gauntlet to the antivirus software industry, but the only response he's received has been the equivalent of one hand clapping. For months now, Bloor, a partner with Hurwitz & Associates, a consulting and research firm in Waltham, Mass., has been preaching ...
More than 1,200 people were arrested for alleged immigration violations earlier this week when federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Swift meatpacking plants. The workers were accused of using stolen Social Security numbers in order to get jobs. Dubbed "Operation Wagon Train...
Some 800,000 people associated with UCLA have been notified that their names and certain personal information were in a database that was compromised by a hacker. The database contained personal information about current and former students, faculty and staff, and some applicants. There are signs th...
Microsoft has released seven patches for several of its applications, including Outlook Express and Windows services. Two of the patches are rated "critical": a vulnerability in script error handling and a vulnerability in Windows Media Player. "It is significant because we are seeing more hackers u...
What do you think causes almost two-thirds of all problems encountered by Windows-based PCs? Try background tasks. When you start up your computer, dozens of tasks called "processes" are loaded into your system's memory. If you want to take a look at them, press Ctrl-Alt-Del and when Windows Task Ma...
Microsoft on Tuesday opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server to 2,500 IT professionals. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate Voice over Internet Protocol technology into existing telephony infrastructure. The software giant hopes t...
Another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been identified, MessageLabs reported on Tuesday. The new, unannounced vulnerability was exploited in an e-mail attack aimed at a few large corporations, Alex Shipp, an engineer with MessageLabs, told TechNewsWorld. The attack -- consisting of thr...
Nintendo's intellectual property right to the technology in its Wii Remote -- or "Wiimote" -- was challenged this week by Interlink Electronics, which was granted a patent last year for a trigger-operated electronic device that can be operated with a pointer sensor. Interlink claims Nintendo's Wii g...
HP has partnered with Cingular to develop a new notebook computer with built-in global mobile broadband capabilities. The HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC with integrated Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA-based technology aims to let business professionals connect to corporate networks at broadband speeds in...
When Hollywood found floating on the Internet copies of "screeners" sent to Oscar voters, they turned to Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands for a solution. Philips' answer: digital watermarking. Digital watermarking has been around for some time, but with the spread of video distribution t...
There may be a shortage of the latest and greatest video game consoles this holiday season, but there is certainly no lack of new games from which to choose. Part 1 of this two-part series looks at at five of the hottest new game titles: "Gears of War," "Guitar Hero II," "Resistance: Fall of Man," "...
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