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The British scientific establishment responded with anger Monday to an attack by Prince Charles on nanotechnology -- applied science involving tiny particles. Fertility expert Robert Winston described as "very unfortunate" Charles' renewed attack over the weekend in which he suggested using the tech...
When old ideas meet new technology, the result is sometimes a comedy of errors. Such is the case for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, whose outdated thinking produced many a blunder. On one recent occasion, she played the protectionist card on the issue of outsourcing and got caught in her own hypo...
Pointing to the growing number of movie downloaders worldwide, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is complaining that the practice is harming the movie industry significantly. Through a commissioned study of moviegoers and downloaders, the MPAA reported that about one in four Internet ...
In the wake of federal e-signature legislation that Congress approved nearly four years ago, the online financial world has seen dozens of Internet companies proffer solutions that promised tamper-proof electronic signatures. The recurring result was a steady stream of solutions that raised lots of ...
MCI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement with America Online to allow deaf, hearing impaired and speech disabled individuals to access MCI's IP-Relay.com services via AOL, AOL Instant Messenger and Apple Computer iChat services.
Budget issues, authority and a more international approach highlight the agenda for an upcoming meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Malaysia later this month. While the Internet domain name oversight body has been busy dealing with controversial new services...
Application for a U.S. patent has been filed by a California man for his system that allows the dead to speak from their tombs, New Scientist reported Thursday. Robert Barrows of Burlingame has devised a hollow headstone fitted with a flat LCD touch screen. It also houses a computer with a hard disc...
More than a third of the software on the world's PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. The annual study -- this year conducted for the first time by ...
Following issues such as world hunger and global warming, the rising volume of unwanted e-mail is now among the problems that are being dealt with on an international level as officials with the United Nations and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) called spam "an epidemic" at a conference...
There was an interesting article in the New York Times over the weekend. Called "From a High-Tech System, Low-Fi Music," its focus was on compressed music files that are lossy by virtue of the fact that they've been compressed and, hence, are missing information. So people who use iTunes for their i...
At the moment, the truism that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" can easily be applied to Apple's iTunes online music store and those services that are attempting to compete with it. In April 2003, Apple launched the iTunes service and quickly sold millions of songs. As a result, compani...
Sony Electronics today introduced the Micro Vault PRO, a new USB storage device that provides 2 GB of space plus a built-in "Auto Sync" file synchronization feature -- all in a form factor about the length and width of a business card. The Micro Vault PRO uses a one-inch hard disk drive in a brushed...
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling involving an ISP's ability to scan and use the content of customer e-mails equates to "free rein to invade the privacy of users" for ISPs, according to privacy advocates. Others downplayed the impact of the ruling in U.S. v. Councilman, which involves a defenda...
The judge presiding over Microsoft's appeal of the European Union's antitrust decision has scheduled a first meeting for July 27th.
A move to help TV viewers avoid restrictions on digital broadcast signals scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2005 has been launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The campaign is targeted at something called the "Broadcast Flag," a digital rights management scheme that the EFF maintai...
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