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Google announced it is adding the text of books to its searchable database, furthering its bold mission "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Analysts say that other search engines will follow suit, but they don't expect online book-buying to change muc...
A court decision that civil libertarians argue could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States will be reviewed again by federal judges in Boston. The ruling, handed down by a panel of three federal judges in June, found that e-mail service providers m...
Like many organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers noticed an ever-increasing volume of traffic on its frame relay network, which connects 42 field offices in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. "We had to find a way to continue to provide our users with adequate response time without...
Nokia and Land Rover have created a Personal Telephone Integration (PTI) System for Land Rover vehicles, the companies said today. The new system offers features such as connection either via Bluetooth wireless technology or via wired connection using a compatible mobile phone holder. Marcus Stahl, ...
Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core Opteron processor will boost performance 30 to 55 percent over single-core Opterons, the company said at the Fall Processor Forum yesterday. AMD also said it is on target to release the chips for one- to eight-way servers in mid-2005, beating Intel to market. Analys...
A number of high-powered tech companies have banded together to create a "common antipiracy language." Ignoring the reality that if you can hear it, you can copy it, members of the Coral Consortium want to come up with a set of technology specifications "that will let different kinds of copy protect...
AT&T acknowledged today that it is testing alternative operating systems to the Windows platform it now uses, but said the review is not specifically related to security concerns. Mike Dickman, AT&T spokesperson, said reports suggesting AT&T might be considering scrapping Microsoft Windo...
The integration of a fingerprint scanner into IBM's new ThinkPad T42 series of notebooks opens the door for a whole host of secure transactions, but some analysts suggest that there are still flaws in the system. Using fingerprints to confirm identification has become pervasive in the public sector,...
When was the last time you updated your anti-virus software? Even if you update your AV software frequently, there's still a gap between the time a virus is released into the wild on "day zero" and when virus fighters can update their programs to squash the malware. To truly secure a network, what's...
We are now moving into the countdown for Christmas, and it is time to start looking at some of the more interesting products you probably won't see at your local Best Buy. For an awfully long time, the affordable notebook products have been, well, butt ugly. You might have bought one anyway, but it ...
Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date because the clunky devices were costly, inconvenient and intrusive. All that could change this week when...
The second private space flight in a week piloted by history's second civilian astronaut was worth US$10 million today as the Paul Allen-funded SpaceShipOne (SS1) touched the edge of space and returned to Earth winner of the Ansari X Prize. The SS1 team, who will collect the prize officially at a pr...
Last week California's Public Utilities Commission had an opportunity to undo some of the damage price controls have wreaked on the telecom sector. Instead it clung to a losing strategy that rewards sloth and punishes innovation. The PUC approved a below-cost wholesale rate that SBC can charge compe...
More than 10,000 students depend on Jill Cherveny-Keough for trustworthy computing systems. As director of academic computing at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Cherveny-Keough must ensure that dozens of computing centers across the college's campuses run without a hitch. Fall is an esp...
Brushing off a surprising series of rolls, SpaceShipOne (SS1) pilot Mike Melvill took the private craft, funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, to the edge of space and back this morning. It was the first of two flights the team needs to claim the coveted Ansari X Prize. The team, headed by avi...
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