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You knew it was coming, and now it's here -- the latest evil spurred by the latest Microsoft security hole. It's called the JpegOfDeath, but JPEG isn't all it threatens. "[F]or the people out there who think you can only be affected through viewing or downloading a JPEG attachment... you're dead wro...
PalmSource is paving a path for its operating system (OS) to suit phone capabilities in the small but growing smartphone market. Previously limited to handheld personal digital assistants, which have not grown at nearly the same rate as mobile phones, PalmSource says its latest Cobalt OS, version 6....
Telecommunications carriers see the future, and it is voice over IP services. This technology enables them to roll out high-speed multimedia services to consumers and businesses faster and at a lower cost than traditional Public Switched Telephone Network services. While those features are alluring,...
IBM is set to announce this week a major radio frequency identification (RFID) strategy that involves integrating the next-generation supply-chain and tracking technology with existing data systems. Seen as a refinement and eventually replacement of barcode supply-chain tracking and inventory, the w...
A little over a decade ago the market for aftermarket radios and gear for cars was relatively robust. At that time most car companies used standard-sized radios, and if you wanted to upgrade it was a relatively simple task. That isn't the case anymore. Radios are increasingly designed-in to cars and...
One year ago, the prospects for developing biometrics as a reliable security device for computers were viewed by many industry watchers as a nice idea with little applicable potential. After all, biometric security devices have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But the use of biome...
The blast-off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will deploy a replacement crew for Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, who have manned the orbital platform since April.
Sony, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkman cassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digital players, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3. Sony's MP3 move is a departure from its earlier policy of supporting only its own Atrac format, w...
This week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a study on the outsourcing of jobs overseas, prompting at least two Seattle-based unions to call for government action. But while protectionism might be a typical reaction, America's future depends on embracing trade. The reasons to support gre...
Touting research that showed the world's DSL broadband connections grew by more than 30 million subscribers in the year ending in June, the DSL Forum claimed the broadband technology is doubling and dominating broadband cable connection growth. Analysts pointed out that there was a sizeable gap betw...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
AMD and IBM are extending their microprocessor manufacturing collaboration deal another three years and will now continue working together on next-generation computer chips through 2008, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from AMD this week. The extension, which has yet to be a...
NASA announced Tuesday that the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have had their missions extended for an additional six months, or as long as the Martian rovers remain operational. Spirit and Opportunity have survived their lowest point in terms of sunlight for their photovoltaic cells, and the ...
Bill Xia, CEO of Dynamic Internet Technology, a company which runs services aimed at allowing Chinese people to access unfiltered news, says Google is helping Chinese authorities to maintain an online "matrix" that keeps people from finding out what's happening outside the country's borders. DIT was...
U.S.-based TruSecure is merging with Betrusted to create a security company with global reach. The new company, to be called Cybertrust, hopes to respond to the expanded risks in IT of not only vulnerabilities and viruses, but also compliance with government regulations on the handling of informatio...
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