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This week is the RSA Conference 2005, and today I'm doing one of the opening talks at a Trusted Computing Group lunch. I'm trying to find a nice way to say that I think the most common approach to security problems these days is completely whacked, but I have struggled with the "nice" part. Here ar...
Mark Menarik, CEO of Chicago-based TanCher, believes that a new PDA designed for students can foster a revolution in teaching with technology. His innovation could herald a breakthrough in mobile computing platforms if his plan succeeds. According to Menarik, the shapes of the BlackBerry and Treo ar...
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Wikipedia project among others, said Google has offered to host part of the free encyclopedia's content. Wikipedia's entries are written and edited in an open-source, collaborative fashion by members of the online community. It i...
The movie industry won a court ruling against movie and TV show download service LokiTorrent.com this week, shuttering the site almost immediately after a U.S. District Court in Dallas sided with the industry and declared the site could be taken down. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)...
Most people ignore state public utilities commissions, but this week the California PUC released a well-written report that deserves attention. "Broadband Deployment in California" contains a wealth of facts and identifies key policy problems responsible for slowing broadband rollout and economic gr...
Antivirus vendor Sophos reported this week that the BankAsh-A Trojan, a malicious software program that silently infects and corrupts computers, was disabling Microsoft's new AntiSpyware software and attempting to steal passwords and other banking information from Windows users. The Trojan represen...
In IBM's Global Business Security Index Report for 2004, the company warns that malware and spam attacks on mobile devices such as smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs are on the rise. As Big Blue joins a growing list of high-tech companies and researchers warning of the increasing danger of mobile...
The University of Calgary is at it again. The Canadian school gained some notoriety two years ago when its computer science department launched a course on computer viruses, which included, as part of the coursework, writing a virus. This week, the brains behind the virus course, Assistant Professor...
Intel, playing catch up with AMD, has announced that it has plans for the release of its much delayed 64-bit processors for desktop computers. Systems containing the 600 series Pentium 4 chips will be in stores next month, the company said. "With Intel and AMD, it's always a game of leapfrog. Someti...
Microsoft this week outlined its Indigo Web services technology, telling developers the Windows programming model would take Web services to the next level in terms of security, reliability and interoperability. Microsoft also announced a community technology preview (CTP) of Indigo scheduled for Ma...
Although a study released today found that 8 of 10 respondents had received unsolicited mobile phone messages and warned that the intrusions will only worsen, one analyst questioned whether the problem was as significant as the study made it seem. "Every form of communication, old and new, gets spam...
Every day, employees are bombarded by an avalanche of messages: voice mail items on their desktop and mobile phones, notes on their pagers, e-mail, a fax or two, and perhaps a number of sticky notes taped to their computer screens. At the same time, because of recent technical advances, users are pr...
IBM continued its extension to the small and medium business market this week as the company unveiled its entry-level, Unix-based p5 510 server, priced at just under $4,000. IBM new server for the SMB market matches similar moves by rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun. All are responding to demand for mo...
Google today offered up a new way to search the information superhighway for the best routes on terra firma's highways with a beta release of Google Maps. Some are already touting the site as a vast improvement over offerings from Yahoo and Mapquest. "This launch may not have the fanfare associated ...
Congressman Mike Thompson is hoping three times is the charm for his legislation to create a national recycling program for electronic waste. The California Democrat has twice before filed bills to establish national standards for handling e-waste only to see them whither and die in a parliamentary ...
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