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Last Thursday the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) boasted it had launched another 717 lawsuits against people who share music online, bringing the total number of those victimized to a shocking 8,423. By the weekend, however, Google had indexed a only a handful of links on the story...
Technology researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies used for automobile locks and easy-pay gasoline systems are sorely lacking in protection, warning that opportunists could easily exploit the weakness for ill deeds. The researchers, ...
Take-Two Interactive Media may not have hit a home run, but the video-game maker swatted a solid double against its major opponent, Electronic Arts, when it cemented a deal with Major League Baseball. Take-Two, developer of the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, signed a long-term agreement ...
Last week we talked about a number of platform companies that could drive the future of the personal computer. This week we look at PC hardware, and we will talk a bit about some of the unusual products that are already on the market. Most are built by small companies focused on unique segments, but...
In the never-ending march of new search engine features, Yahoo Local this week added a "send to phone" option to its search results. Now customers who have mobile phone service from Cingular/AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint or Nextel will be able to send text messages with the address and phone n...
A "bot" -- a piece of malicious software that can spread and function much like a computer virus or worm -- is seizing on vulnerable MySQL database software running on Windows systems to spread and scan for new victims. While the MySQL Bot, also known as the Spool CLC, is mitigated by the limited nu...
Google's latest release is a tool not for search engine users, but for the companies that advertise on the site. The API (application development interface), made available yesterday in beta, should give its partners more precise ways to manage their online advertising campaigns, Google said. The AP...
William Safire bid farewell to his column at the New York Times this week, but not because he's retiring. Instead, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, former presidential speech writer is moving on to lead an organization concerned with what some call transhumanism. Transhumanism is the advocacy of using ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web services, the joining of software applications inside and among different organizations' IT architecture...
Microsoft has taken another step to clamp down on pirated software, announcing yesterday that it will require participation in its Windows Genuine Advantage program to get updates and downloads from its Web site. The software giant did not go so far as to cut off users from its automatic updates, wh...
As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should be held liable for the illegal file sharing that occurs over their networks. The tech industry, me...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property ri...
During his daily commute into Manhattan from Long Island, George Miller's notebook computer can connect to dozens of networks without his even realizing it. Indeed, as Miller's train weaves and winds its way into the city, his notebook computer discovers dozens of unsecured wireless networks emittin...
Security software giant Symantec -- which has grown to cover a wider range of security solutions with acquisitions and partnerships -- this week rolled out two e-mail security appliances featuring anti-spam, antivirus and e-mail firewall. The company said Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series appliance...
Every day, vendors are working to deliver faster microprocessors that work with more memory. Meanwhile, software suppliers are designing more sophisticated applications that work with data, voice, and recently even video information. As higher volumes of data are generated, a need for faster local a...
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