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Sharp Systems of America, a division of Sharp Electronics, has introduced the Sharp LL-151-3D display, Sharp's first stand-alone display that features Sharp's 3D LCD Technology, formerly available only in a laptop from the company. This 15-inch 3D LCD monitor delivers 3D images to the naked eye, and...

After extensive investment, testing and delay, Microsoft has made its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP available and is urging corporate and consumer users to update the operating system, which has been bombarded by Explorer browser and other vulnerabilities. A billion-dollar-batch of security upgrades...

A couple of things happened last month that got me thinking about Apple and Sun and their failed merger attempt years ago. Sun held its lab tour event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and Apple became outraged at Real Networks for making its Real Music services compatible...

Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security settings an...

TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT

Work on Higher-Speed WLAN Standard Begins

The quest for more bandwidth is neverending, so soon after vendors make one technical advance, they move on to the next. With 54 Mbps 802.11g wireless LANs now poised to gain a lion's share of product shipments, vendors are examining ways to push the bandwidth plateau past the 100 Mbps mark. Proprie...

Kaspersky Labs has detected Backdoor.WinCE.Brador.a, the first backdoor Trojan for PDAs running under PocketPC, a Microsoft handheld operating system originally known as Windows CE. Brador is a classic Trojan backdoor program: It opens the infected machine for remote administration.

Microsoft has finally announced the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major software update for Windows XP that contains what the company is calling "advanced security technologies." The free service pack comes with many across-the-board security updates, including hardened default security se...

As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual approa...

Viruses finally reached out and touched handheld computers Thursday with Symantec and Kaspersky Labs reporting a backdoor Trojan horse program that can take control of a mobile device. The program, known as Backdoor.Brador.A, attacks PDAs running the Windows CE operating system. Once installed, the ...

Last weekend, hundreds of die-hard fans gathered at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas to see the stars and mingle with other sci-fi-minded folks. Costumes and attitudes aptly demonstrated their commitment to the Star Trek philosophy, which has many similarities to American ideals. When asked to ...

IBM announced that it will not use its patents against Linux, and it encouraged other software companies to make the same vow. As the owner of 60 patents on which the Linux core might infringe, IBM could wreak havoc on Linux if it chose to do so. The new promise, delivered at LinuxWorld, emphasizes ...

Microsoft's long-awaited and much-delayed update to its Windows operating system -- officially called Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- is finally ready and will be released to consumers later this month, the company said Thursday. Windows Service Pack 2 includes various security updates meant to fix som...

FCC Gives OK to TiVo Tech

TiVo, one of the initial creators of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has certified TiVo's technology protection of digital broadcast television. The FCC determined that digital broadcast television content shoul...

Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...

Phishing attacks increased 19 percent in June over May, according to a report released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Of the 1,422 new unique attacks identified, 92 percent of them used forged, or "spoofed," e-mail addresses. To some members of the working group, that fact reveals a crying need...


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