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This week, the California Telephone Association met in Monterey, Calif., to think about the future of advanced communications. The topics that these small telecom companies discussed will affect consumers across the country. Predictions are difficult, but as musician Webb Wilder once said, it's eas...
Looking to round out its database offerings for smaller and entry-level customers and also to fill in the time before the arrival of its next-generation of Windows, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its SQL Server 2005 database this week. Microsoft unveiled an updated line of SQL Server. Offe...
In another attempt to slow the spread of computer viruses, the British government has set up a Web site that offers to alert citizens when serious Internet security problems are making the rounds. The IT Security Awareness for Everyone site will offer the alerts via e-mail or text message and will a...
Leveraging the buzz around the 77th Annual Academy Awards taking place this weekend, yesterday Google launched its new movie search feature. Analysts said making movie showtimes available is yet another advantage that helps Google compete with search rivals Yahoo and MSN. In addition to rental recom...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight the piracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in San Francisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan. The scheme is the so-called "broadcast flag," a digital rights management (DRM) system for co...
A recent vulnerability found in the popular open-source database MySQL revealed a persistent problem for IT managers: password management among administrators. Most talk about password security traditionally centers around end users and the use of weak, easy-to-guess passwords. In companies where ad...
A characteristic that HIV shares with spam has led Microsoft and AIDS researchers to team up on developing a vaccine to kill the deadly disease. Just as spam merchants make tiny changes in the words that are blocked by filters, so, too, HIV mutates rapidly and in tiny ways that keep it one step ahea...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an ongoing mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users receive unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI. "These e-mails did not come from the FBI. Recipients of this or similar solicitations should know ...
Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices' status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core capability in its chips for servers, workstations and desktops and claiming it is the only company ...
A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the company's use of chips to disable printer ink cartridges after a certain date. The suit, filed in Santa Clara (California) Superior Court, seeks class-action status on behalf of anyone who has purchased an inkjet printer with smart...
You move into a new neighborhood, and you need telephone services. Who should you call? In the past, your selection was limited to the local phone company or one of the long distance carriers. Recently, a third option emerged: your local cable television operator. After years of talk about deliverin...
HP announced a line of new routers it says will aid security at the network's edge and sell for half the price of offerings from Cisco and other networking rivals. The new ProCurve Networking products are the Secure Router 7000dl series and Access Controller Module software for the ProCurve Switch 5...
Intel has finally matched its foe AMD in delivering 64-bit silicon solutions to the market in the form of five new Pentium 4 processors. The market, however, may not be ready for the more powerful chips. Intel said the new desktop chips -- a 3.73 GHz P4 Extreme Edition and four new 3.0-3.6 GHz P4s -...
Leveraging its partnership with IBM, Opera announced a voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media yesterday. The software does away with remote controls and lets people interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set-top boxes. The announcement signifies Opera's efforts to ...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacy and free speech. Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumer awareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User Li...
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