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Efforts to harmonize international copyright laws have been in progress since the late 19th century, but the rise of the digital medium has thrust the movement back into the limelight recently. More than any other medium, the Internet has taken the copyright and intellectual property environment and...
Three technology giants -- IBM, Sony and Toshiba -- today took the wraps off of their jointly developed, much-hyped "Cell" chip, which the companies claim to be "effectively a supercomputer on a chip." A prototype was unveiled today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Franci...
Harvard President Larry Summer's comments that "innate differences" account for some of the reason women don't succeed as often as men in science careers shines a light on a problem that most in the world of science and technology are keenly aware of. The university president, dutifully repentant, o...
2005 will see two big waves of new laptop computers. The first, based on Intel's new Sonoma platform, rolled in last week. The second, based on AMD's new Turion processor, is still several weeks off. Sonoma is the code name for Intel's Centrino bundle, which remains one of the most effectively sold...
Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, has began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirate...
Spamhaus, an authoritative force against the unwanted e-mail that accounts for more than half of all mail sent on the Internet, sounded an alarm this week over the problem of Internet service provider (ISP) e-mail relays being used by spammers. The so-called "proxy" spam -- which is sent by machines...
Bill Gates has taken another jab at Linux in an e-mail to customers published on Microsoft's Web site Thursday in which he sings the praises of software interoperability and his company's ability to provide it. "Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software -- that may or may...
The latest worm to wriggle its way around the Web is spreading as quickly as an instant message. A new variant of Bropia, first discovered by Symantec on Jan. 19, has mutated and is whipping around the Internet via MSN Messenger communications. Several antivirus companies, including Trend Micro, Sym...
This year will see many important battles in the communications industry, one of which is currently playing out in the Virginia state legislature. On one side are cable companies and on the other telecommunications firms, but both sides should realize they have a common goal. If they do, and work t...
Napster has unveiled its new "To Go" technology, which the company is calling the first, portable music subscription service, and it is backing the effort with a US$30 million multimedia marketing campaign aimed at biting away at Apple's dominance in the music download space. Napster, which is a leg...
Federal regulators launched a two-prong attack this week on the US$200 million diploma mill industry, an industry populated with online enterprises where students can purchase a degree with minimal or no course work. The first prong was spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which ke...
The Princeton Review is aiming to simplify the college admissions process with a free online tool designed to help students find the right college. Simultaneously, for a fee, colleges can search for students who match their needs and specialties. The New York-based publisher and provider of test pre...
Sun Microsystems this week unveiled new pricing for its grid computing, storage, developer and desktop services, as well as for its Java Enterprise System (JES). The move is viewed as an attempt to adjust how enterprises pay for IT resources. At its analyst summit in Santa Clara, California, Sun sai...
Security advisor Kaspersky Lab reported last week that Russia had earned the dubious distinction of becoming the ninth country with a confirmed infection of a virus targeted at Bluetooth devices. The Cabir.a virus had already stricken handhelds in the Philippines, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates...
A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews. The application, called Parent File Scan, was unveiled last week by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- alongside an announcement of the organization'...
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