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Crime is turning from a blue-collar to a white-collar profession. Rather than taking out guns and robbing convenience stores, criminals are performing "virtual robberies" where they use computer technology to steal a person's identity. From a criminal perspective, these crimes are simple to commit, ...
After failing to cut into the deluge of spam sent to Internet users with the Can Spam Act, the U.S. government might now be aiming legislation at spyware -- silent software programs that identify and often track users and their online behaviors -- with bills in the House and Senate. A bill from Mary...
Last week brought some good news for those who wondered if the Bush administration would ever act to clean up the nation's telecom mess. The Bush administration has finally taken its first real step toward its goal of ubiquitous broadband. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who represents the fe...
This week, a Paris conference on Internet hate sites and the fight against online racism is drawing attention to what European officials call a "growing problem" in the form of hate speech and racist propaganda on the Web. Although there is agreement that the Internet industry -- ISPs, Web hosts and...
Intel and Proxim today announced a collaboration to develop WiMAX technologies for portable broadband wireless access. The agreement includes the development of base station and subscriber unit access points that deliver wireless access for data, voice and video services. WiMAX, known also as IEEE 8...
File-sharing appears to boost music CD buying, according to survey results released by Warez.com, a maker of file-sharing software. The online survey, which reportedly has been taken by some 150,000 people, shows that the purchasing of music increases slightly for some consumers after they discover ...
Suggesting that the federal Can-Spam Act of 2003 doesn't pack a big enough punch to curtail electronic mail spam, state lawmakers around the country are creating their own regionalized antispam laws. The New Jersey legislature is the most recent to join the movement to toughen antispam regulations. ...
The first virus designed to infect mobile phones was detected Tuesday, as reported by security firm F-Secure in Helsinki, Finland. Nicknamed Cabir, the worm uses Bluetooth technology running in Symbian mobile phones that support Nokia's Series 60 smartphone platform. Several mobile phone makers use ...
Akamai Technologies confirmed Wednesday that its distributed network and servers -- which help serve major Web sites including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others -- came under attack Tuesday, calling the denial of service (DoS) "a sophisticated, large-scale attack." Akamai -- which also sa...
What's so great about the 70 million or so downloads Apple says iTunes managed in more than a year, compared to the one billion (at a conservative estimate) that happen on the peer-to-peer networks every month? The "one billion" figure, which comes from industry observer Big Champagne, helps make th...
Looking to quell fears of delay and signaling it is in the final stages of its newest upgrade to Windows XP, Microsoft released a new beta version of its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, a long-awaited security and reliability effort that will probably be released within the next two to three months, ...
Many consumers who are accustomed to paying $1.00 per song and a minimum of $10.00 per album from iTunes, MusicMatch or Napster typically raise an eyebrow suspiciously at the prospect of AllofMP3.com, a service that charges users roughly five cents per song and offers nearly all its music in AAC, MP...
Today AMD announced what the company is calling a "technology milestone" -- the completed design of its AMD64 dual-core processors. AMD plans to deliver dual-core products to the x86 server market in mid-2005 and introduce dual-core solutions for high-end client PCs in the second half of 2005. AMD h...
Yahoo took its turn this week at raising its level of e-mail storage space, announcing that paying customers would get 2 GB of storage -- double what Google's beta Gmail service provides. Users of Yahoo's free e-mail service will also get a boost -- up to a whopping 100 MB of free storage. The move ...
Hot spots for making wireless connections to the Internet are popping up in places like MacDonald's, Starbuck's and Panera's, but WiFi remains just a side dish for outfits trying to make a buck from the technology. The hot spots are a premium service used to attract customers to their sponsors' loca...
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