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Corporations' reliance on e-mail systems to circulate information has grown exponentially, but their ability to sort, retain, and locate e-mail messages has not evolved as quickly. "In many organizations, few procedures are in place that outline how to manage e-mail correspondences, and often compan...
AOL, the Internet company struggling to shed its desktop days and move further into the more profitable mobile and wireless industry, continued its mobile-by-acquisition strategy this week, announcing it was acquiring handset software maker Wildseed. AOL indicated that Wildseed -- known for its Smar...
IBM Research will turn over its data search technology to the open source community, the company said today. The Unstructured Information Management Architecture searches store data not through keywords, but by analyzing the data within documents to see if they fit the concepts and facts the user is...
Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble. However, I didn't explain why, in addition, I was focused on the ...
Financial institutions are deploying new authentication technologies -- like graphical watermarks -- to hamper hackers who can somehow slip past biometric and token technologies, experts tell TechNewsWorld. "We've seen evidence of new Trojans that bypass most two-factor authentication devices -- e.g...
The first beta of Vista was released last week and quickly a set of viruses, named Danom.A through Danom.E, were published the following week by a virus-writer. However, the malware actually exploits a new command line and scripting language that Microsoft has not yet confirmed will be included in V...
A new really simple syndication (RSS) feed aggregator from NewsGator touts the enterprise benefits of the blog form of communication, but analysts indicated RSS feeds have yet to substantially penetrate the corporate market. However, RSS feeds -- increasingly popular with consumers seeking to cut th...
Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an "always on" surveillance society. Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two ...
Television and other applications for video over the Internet got a boost this week with the announcement that telecom provider Alcatel and customer management software maker Amdocs were joining forces on services for Internet protocol-based TV, or IPTV. The companies said they were collaborating on...
It's a modern parental dilemma: Should children have cell phones? Hectic schedules make it convenient to be able to reach your 10-year-old when he's at swimming lessons and you're stuck in traffic. But if you decide to go that route, is your child responsible and mature enough to use the phone corre...
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company has announced that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute ...
Ethernet, the technology that currently dominates the desktop, is the most popular local area network, is prevalent in the data center and used in home networking, is now making inroads in the Wide Area Network (WAN). After an initial foray that failed for a number of reasons, carriers are using Eth...
Vonage has taken a step into the WiMax world, making a deal with TowerStream, a provider of high-speed Internet access. The deal is the first of its kind between VoIP and WiMax services. TowerStream, which offers service in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and several cities ...
Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week. In its recent report on PDAs -- defined to include...
Intel has joined forces with Connexion by Boeing to help ensure that travelers almost always have access to the Internet. In the announcement yesterday, Intel said it has tested the compatibility of laptops using Intel Centrino mobile technology and stamped the high-speed, in-flight service with its...
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