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In an attempt to cut down on the exponential growth of phishing scams, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, introduced a bill yesterday that defines the penalties for perpetrators. The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 calls for fines of up to US$250,000 and jail terms of up to five years for people convicted of ...
Although it is far from ready for the mainstream -- and not even ready for application developers, according to some -- 64-bit computing was a major topic of discussion at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) taking place in San Francisco this week. Microsoft announced its 64-bit versions of Windows -- b...
Supporters of file-sharing programs Grokster and StreamCast scourged the entertainment industry yesterday following the filing of briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that could be Armageddon for the peer-to-peer software industry. The High Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the di...
Mobile security. It's an idea whose time has finally come, judging by the amount of interest at the recent RSA security conference in San Francisco. The show floor was abuzz with talk about securing both mobile devices and the increasingly mobile enterprise. But if you asked ten people to define mob...
Craigslist announced today that it would expand the odds of finding true love, a vintage couch or a long lost pal by beaming its ads into outer space. "Humans in general seem to like the chance of a long shot, hence the popularity of the missed connections board," craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said....
With a little help from a lesser-known piece of malicious software code, the Glieder Trojan, a wave of Bagle computer worm variants spread successfully today, disabling and blocking antivirus and other security software and spreading in spam-like fashion. Security experts said as many as 15 Bagle va...
Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latest multipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2 megapixel camera and a music player. "I'm fairly bullish -- I think people are going to want music on their cell phones," Neil Strother, senior analyst at In-Stat/MD...
Has Nanosolar found the Holy Grail of solar energy? For years, the price of solar energy has been so high that, without some form of subsidy, it has been unable to compete with power from the electrical grid. Now Nanosolar, a Palo Alto, California, start-up claims it has developed a "commercial-scal...
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that P2P companies aren't responsible for what users do with P2P technologies. Meanwhile, the movie industry trade group is suing more people it says are illegally distributing f...
Two companies are looking to combine two tech trends -- the growing revenue from Internet advertising and the popularity of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) content distribution -- to open Web advertising to more users. Search advertising company Kanoodle and content aggregator Moreover Technologies ...
As we move well into the spring semester, more and more kids are thinking about life after college. Those that prepared wisely already know where their first jobs will be. Those that didn't may, at least for a while, need to get used to the question, "Do you want fries with that?" Although the indu...
A new search technology by Webroot Software takes a proactive approach to protecting computer users from spyware. It uses bots to find spyware buried deep within distribution centers. Armed with the results of this robotic reconnaissance, Webroot is able to build in better defenses and alerts, makin...
Looking to repeat the high score of its Xbox-exclusive "Halo 2," Microsoft has signed legendary Japanese game-maker Hironobu Sakaguchi -- who created "Final Fantasy," one of the most significant role-playing games (RPGs) ever -- to produce two new RPGs for the next-generation Xbox console. Microsof...
Intel will spend next week drumming up enthusiasm for its dual-core processing systems at its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco. The company, hot on the heels of AMD, announced it would release a 64-bit Pentium 4 processor for PCs by midyear, ending AMD's sole proprietorship of the 64-bit worl...
Skype Technologies has begun allowing users to beta test free two-way short text messaging, the company announced yesterday. In addition to already receiving SMS messages for free, Skype users can now also send them via the company's "Skype to SMS" service. "We launched our 'SMS to Skype' service ju...
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