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Riding on the back of the second annual E-mail Authentication Summit in Chicago, Microsoft on Tuesday claimed rapid adoption of its Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication to fight spam. It also launched improved postmaster services for consumers. There has been a threefold increase in Sender ...
Personal computers may dominate Internet usage today, but mobile phones are poised to invade that territory with wireless browsing capabilities, a new study says. Internet access via the mobile phone actually outpaces wireless access from a notebook PC in many of areas of the world -- a statistic dr...
Nintendo this week released an American version of Japan's No. 1 brain training game, "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day," for the Nintendo DS. Japanese neurologist Ryuta Kawashima, who maintains that regularly doing easy and fast-paced mental activities can keep brains young, strong and ...
Technology is all around us. We work on computers, listen to MP3 players, talk on smartphones, snap photos with digital cameras and, well, you get the picture. Technology makes every day life easier -- when it works. What about when it doesn't, or at least when you can't figure out how it does? Man...
The arrival of new high-definition DVD players in the U.S. market this week means the fight between HD-DVD and the competing Blu-ray format is officially underway. Both look to improve image quality with high-definition video and broaden the capacity of DVDs for the next generation of movie and vide...
Microsoft's latest series of patches is brewing trouble for some customers. While the MS06-015 patch was designed to fix a flaw in Windows Explorer, it is also causing plenty of problems for people who use HP printers, scanners and digital cameras. Those who use Sunbelt Software's Kerio Personal Fir...
The number of malicious programs is on the rise, according to McAfee's Avert Labs, with exponential increases in rootkits and Windows-based stealth components. In the first quarter of 2006, the number of rootkits increased by 700 percent over the year-ago period, according to McAfee. Meanwhile, the ...
The global bandwidth glut that resulted when the telecom bubble burst in the late 1990s finally appears to be abating. Signs of the glut's demise are evident in the industry, according to TeleGeography Research in Washington, D.C. "Following several rough years, the global bandwidth market is showin...
The Patti Santangelo "Fight Goliath" campaign was officially launched about four months ago and since then, it's raised an impressive $13,140.21. Santangelo is the New York mother of five targeted by the Big Four record labels' Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Actually, there's very...
There's a good reason why Hewlett-Packard notebook computers have become so popular with consumers. They give you a lot for your money. Consider HP's latest media center locomotive, the dv8000. For around US$1200, you get a monster notebook with a 17-inch display, a state-of-the-art AMD Turion 64 pr...
Microsoft has released a beta version of its Windows Live Academic Search service -- an unusual move for the company, which tends to hold back from releasing its products until fully developed. The search tool, the result of a cooperative effort between Windows Live Search, industry association Cros...
In a move to reduce software piracy in China, Beijing has banned the sale of so-called "naked" computers, that is, personal computers sold without software, according to an announcement on Friday. The timing could be a political move to coincide with Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to t...
NASA won't release its 70-page report on why the DART spacecraft didn't complete its mission last year because of its sensitive content, the agency said. "The official DART Mishap Investigation Report will not be publicly released because it contains information that is protected by U.S. Internation...
Last week I visited Hewlett-Packard's lab to see what they have in the works. Lab tours are one of the nice perks of this job. A few months ago I got to see Intel's rather extensive future lineup, and weeks ago I also witnessed Sun's rather disappointing event. However, HP, thanks to its new executi...
Research from two separate messaging consultancies indicates that e-mail and instant messaging attacks continued apace in the month of March, but the number of viruses detected surprisingly declined. San Carlos, Calif.-based messaging management firm Postini processed more than 23 billion messages a...
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