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A new briefing released yesterday by Postini, the messaging security company, based in San Carlos, Calif., indicates that the recently discovered "Sober" virus is the largest viral attack on the Internet ever recorded, twice as big as any other virus on record. "We typically quarantine about 50 mil...
Yahoo yesterday announced the extension of the company's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) platform. The company has added RSS feeds in the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is currently in beta testing. RSS is a technology that helps users keep track of their favorite syndicated content from across th...
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum. Jupiter Research said file-shar...
Those who enjoy intrigue may be quite satisfied with developments in the WiFi market. Two years ago, vendors started working on a standard, dubbed 802.11n, to boost the top transmission speed from 54M bps to 100M bps. That work developed into a deadlock between two competing groups: World-Wide Spect...
Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum. Jupiter Research said file-shar...
The agency charged with Internet oversight may give its blessing to single-letter domain names, which have been reserved since 1993. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will decide this and other issues at a meeting in Vancouver, B.C., this weekend. Single-letter domains ...
One visit to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site offers an eye-opening glimpse into the world of cybercrime. Case after case details how the Feds are cracking down on cyber-criminals, defendants are pleading guilty, and the judged are bei...
A filmmaker in India believes he's hit on the perfect Digital Restriction Management solution: hiding secret coding in "every single print." So suggests producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala. Meanwhile, the major movie studios are reporting eye-popping revenues in the mega-billions, their highest ever. At th...
Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items. In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a fes...
Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the world's largest transmissive TFT LCD (thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display), with high enough resolution to display digital television content. The new display is double the size of Samsung's flexible LCD display prototype announced in Janu...
While Sony (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) go head-to-head with competing high-definition DVD technology, Hitachi-Maxell and InPhase Technologies are working on a disc that will hold 300GB of information, or six times what either of the other discs can store. Hitachi is calling their technology a tap...
A new survey released last week by Strategy Analytics indicates that the "style" of a mobile phone may be the key feature that users rely on when gauging their satisfaction with mobile phone technology. The study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics analyzes mobile device buyer satisfaction across 20 ...
In the month of November, three things happened nearly back-to-back that have had significant effects on the technology landscape. The first was the Sony rootkit fiasco, which may have changed the software arena forever. The second was the acquisition by Cisco of Scientific-Atlanta, in what was li...
Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall. The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Pau...
At one time, the gap between wireless and wired network capabilities was so vast that wireless networks were used only on rare occasions. That has been changing recently, according to industry watchers. "A growing number of enterprises are taking a look at whether a wired or a wireless network offer...
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