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Due to its proximity to urban areas and its volatile activity in recent decades, Mount St. Helens may be the most closely monitored volcano in history. Digital telemetry -- technology that automatically record and transmit data from remote sources -- circles the crater like a bracelet. Sensors monit...
Microsoft released a total of 22 patches in its monthly security update, labeling seven of them "urgent" and imploring companies to download them. The software giant called three other patches "important," one level less severe than "urgent." The security flaws affect Windows XP, the Internet Explor...
With the proclamation that it intends to overtake EMC as the top enterprise storage supplier, IBM announced today the DS6000, a disk storage system slightly bigger than a VCR, and the TotalStorage DS8000, which can act either as a single system or, through partitioning, as multiple systems. Rich Lec...
Having set the pace by victimizing 12-year-old Brianna Lahara, the four members of the Big Music record label cartel say they're equally OK with suing children in Britain. Brianna and her mother live in a New York housing project. Last year, Mrs. Lahara paid $2000 to the cartel's trade group, the Re...
The MP3 player market, where the iPod Mini once stood alone, will soon have several new entries. IDC predicted last month that the segment will grow from 12.5 million units sold last year to more than 50 million units in 2008. Virgin Electronics' 5 GB Player, the Creative Zen Micro and the Dell Pock...
Apple just might be preparing for a coup d'etat in the digital media world, if gossip about new iPod functionality making its way across the Mac grapevine proves to be true. Apple rumor site ThinkSecret aid "highly reliable sources" have revealed that the computer-maker will announce a 60 GB iPod wi...
Nintendo is enforcing its dominance in the portable gaming world with the launch of its wireless Nintendo DS, a handheld double-screen console that will allow players to control games with touch or voice, monitor two-screen action and even compete wirelessly with others. Nintendo DS will launch in t...
The Fall Processor Forum was held last week in the Silicon Valley. This show has become the counter to Intel's Developer Forum, and it probably should now be called "The Everything but Intel Microprocessor Forum." It kind of feels like the rebuttal in a presidential debate. Intel, as the incumbent...
Antivirus software is a required component for safe computing. Security experts warn that an unprotected computer straight out of the box and connected to the Internet will catch multiple virus infections in its first twenty minutes online. Antivirus software programs, however, are only reliable if ...
Search superstar Google rolled out a new short message service this week, delivering its search and other Internet data to mobile phones of several major vendors through text messaging. The company indicated it will be testing a beta version of the free service in the U.S., where text messaging has ...
Computer Associates (CA) has introduced a usage-based pricing model for its portfolio of mainframe management software products. The overhauled pricing strategy is called Measured Workload Pricing and moves the software industry another step closer to utility computing. "Our FlexSelect licensing pro...
California, a state that prides itself on experimentation and rebelliousness, has recently turned its attention to stem cell research issues. On the November ballot is Proposition 71, which proposes to create a new and expensive government-funded stem-cell research apparatus. While finding cures to ...
Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air. Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entert...
The fate of the controversial Induce Act that would restrict file-sharing technology that can be used to illegally download and share copyrighted material was in question today after negotiations between the music and electronics industries broke down as the current Congressional session nears an en...
Firing the latest salvo in the war over next-generation DVD formats, electronics companies Sony, Matsushita Electric and Sharp plan to release camcorders using the Blu-ray DVD format in 2005. The companies are working on a rewritable, 3-inch (8 centimeter) disc. Currently available discs are 12 cm, ...
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