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Network Appliance's announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or another: virtualization. Network Appliance said its NetApp V-series family of data storage and manag...
Toshiba and Elpida Memory both announced today high-performance DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips they claim achieve the fastest data transfer rate yet attained by any memory device. The second generation 512-megabit XDR (extreme data rate) DRAMs each have a peak operating speed of 3.2 Ghz, ...
Microsoft made two major advances this week including the launch of its MSN Video Downloads service and announcing plans to offer a new ID system designed to give users more control over personal information. Microsoft said MSN Video Downloads will provide daily television programming, including vid...
Hackers possess two admirable traits: persistence and ingenuity. These attributes have unfortunately lead to a phenomenon known as "pharming," the latest in a never-ending series of insidious attacks. This new threat packages a number of established attack methods, such as phishing, viruses, spyware...
The latest mass-mail worm to attack unprotected computers is Mytob, which first appeared at the beginning of the month, but last week, threatened with eight new variants, two of which were reported by security firm Symantec yesterday. As with other mass-mail worms, Mytob uses its own SMTP engine to ...
Facing increasingly faster, more complex and more targeted computer attacks, network companies and groups are banding together to share information in hopes of stemming the damage done by computer attackers. The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance -- announced by Arbor Networks and including worldwide supp...
The recently formed Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) announced this week that it has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. Analysts said the outcome could be a significant boon for the industry. "This is a significant step toward improving V...
More than 1,000 individuals and groups have signed a letter urging the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to open its meetings next month on global patent and copyright policy to more government outsiders. The forums to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, are expected to set the tone...
Google is being sued by French news agency Agence France-Presse for using AFP photos and news stories in the Google News listings. That's a bad break for Google and now, to make things worse, p2pnet.net is joining AFP in suing not only Google, but also Yahoo and any other news aggregation services i...
"Beta release." These two words are attached to more and more software releases these days -- and not open-source products, either. It seems almost everything Google releases, for example, is first introduced in beta version. Analysts said even Microsoft has now officially jumped on the beta bandwag...
Fans of "Halo 2" -- and there are many -- will soon have the chance to wander new realms. Bungie.Net, the Internet home for Bungie Studios, which developed Halo, announced it will release nine new multiplayer map packs for the game. Bungie will release four of the maps at the end of April for online...
Just days after the hugely successful North America release of its PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony was dealt a blow by a U.S. federal court, which ordered the company to stop selling PlayStations and to pay US$90.7 million to Immersion Corp. in a patent infringement suit. Immersion filed suit in 20...
With powerful forces pulling for both sides, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a matter that brings to a head the debate on how to govern today's converging telecommunications and information services. The high court this week begins hearing arguments in the case -- a dispute betwe...
Fabless semiconductor company Luxtera announced today that it has solved the longstanding problem of building advanced photonic interfaces into mass-produced silicon chips. The company claimed that, for the first time, it is possible to integrate high-speed optical fiber interfaces in silicon device...
Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Science...
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