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Broadband penetration of the nation's rural areas has more than doubled since 2003, but it still lags behind urban and suburban areas by a substantial margin, according to a survey released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. By the end of 2005, surveyors found, 24 percent of ...
Identity theft and strong opinions go hand in hand. ID theft is rampant and is causing millions of dollars of damage every year -- or, it really isn't such a big problem, and few people are really hurt financially by it. Why such wide disparity? More importantly, what can a business owner, an IT ma...
Is it a digital music player? A smartphone? A new PDA? For some time, Microsoft has been seeding expectations of a new device, code-named Project Origami, that would combine some or all of the functionality of these popular products. Now, the emergence of a video clip purporting to shed light on th...
Most households that are not on the Web already have little intention of logging on. So says a study released by market researcher Parks Associates on Friday. The study found few new households willing to subscribe to Internet services, which, the study predicted, would limit 2006 growth in overall ...
Microsoft said it would release six different flavors of its Windows Vista operating system, scheduled for rollout in the second half of 2006. The Windows Vista product lineup consists of two versions for businesses, three for consumers, and one for emerging markets, the software giant said. The pro...
Last week a number of surprising issues flared in the press. First, IBM says it is now aggressively going after SCO's funding sources to see where the bodies are buried, so to speak; an IDC report puts Windows ahead of Unix for the first time since, well, ever; and Apple's OS, considered the "secure...
The era of the networked home has finally arrived, as sales are soaring for IP-enabled multimedia devices. According to a new study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, sales in the U.S. of Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled devices rose by more than 500 percent to 16 million units in 2005, as consumers ...
Chinese PC giant Lenovo has made its first set of self-branded computers for sale worldwide, promising worry-free computing in new desktops and notebooks intended for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lenovo 3000 family will feature built-in virus recovery, simplified network connectivity and a...
EarthLink and Google submitted a joint request for proposal this week to bring San Francisco workers and residents free citywide wireless access. As part of the deal, EarthLink would pay most of the projected US$15 million cost to build the wireless municipal network and would recover some of those ...
As part of its new "Live" branding strategy, Microsoft is reportedly beta testing a new Web-based service designed to help parents manage their children's computer use to improve their safety. Microsoft announced the service, dubbed Windows Family Safety settings, in January. Part of Windows Vista, ...
Yahoo has engaged in a battle with the Recording Industry Association of America, at least indirectly. Yahoo's digital music service executive on Thursday boldly suggested to Music 2.0 conference attendees that music labels sell their songs online without digital rights management software. Dave Gol...
At a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of biologists discussed how, in the near future, people could expect to live 100 years. A longer, healthier life is good news to most, but predictably some speakers took a negative, almost pro-death, stance. Sta...
Television fans are getting more and more TV to go from Apple's iTunes and other services, including access to exclusive online offerings such as the broadcast-TV first announced Thursday by NBC. The network said the pilot episode of its new series "Conviction" will be available for free on iTunes ...
Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again. The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator on Thursday to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace. Specifically, Google Page Creator is t...
Microsoft this week released the latest beta version of its Vista operating system, allowing large enterprises to test drive all of its new features and provide technical feedback prior to deployment. The Community Technology Preview is the fourth in a series of early Windows Vista builds being prov...
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