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The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn its offer of amnesty to file-sharers. Previously, the group had agreed not to sue individuals who would pledge to stop trading copyrighted music through peer-to-peer services and applications. However, the RIAA also diverged from its standa...

Apple is building on its forays into servers with the Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware, introducing a new storage area network (SAN) system that it claims is destined for wider enterprise use beyond its traditional audience of video and media professionals. The company said the Xsan -- priced at less...

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NASA Tests Relativity Theory with Gravity Probe B

On April 20, a NASA rocket will lift off from Vandenburg Air Force Base carrying one of the most remarkable physics experiments ever attempted. Gravity Probe B will try to answer questions raised by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, proposed in the early years of the 20th century. Whether Gra...

U.S. residents not only are accessing the Internet via high-speed broadband connections more than previously presumed, but also are moving from dial-up access to mostly DSL or cable broadband more quickly than ever as they put performance at the top of their priority list, according to the latest Pe...

An increase in suspicious activity last weekend has Internet security experts bracing for what some analysts warn could be the next big worm attack worldwide. Virus monitors spent the weekend watching an increased level of activity that experts said could be the start of a Blaster-like attack. A spo...

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Fighting Terrorism Through Technology

A few years ago, the History Channel had a program that covered great military disasters. One was the on the French Maginot Line. This was a line of supposedly impregnable forts that were put in place to prevent invasion by Germany after World War I. This solution was monumental in cost and it faile...

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Twilight of Barcodes and the Dawn of RFID

Barcodes, those familiar sets of lines on items from DVDs to refrigerators, eventually may go the way of the typewriter, the black-and-white television and the dodo. Radio Frequency Identification technology promises to replace bar coding and make it easier for suppliers, distributors and retailers ...

A new study released this week indicates that nearly 28 "spyware" items infest each PC, demonstrating the broad proliferation of the secret software, researchers said. Spyware is a rapidly proliferating type of software that covertly forwards information about a computer user's online activities to ...

Paired with printing specialist Toppan, Sony has announced a new, Blu-Ray-based disc capable of holding 25 GB of high-definition programming through digital information's prehistoric precursor: paper. Sony said its new optical data storage medium, to be detailed next week at a storage industry confe...

Court papers filed this week demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice is asking Microsoft to reveal more to rivals who license essential Windows computer code as part of the company's ongoing antitrust settlement. The documents in federal court show that Microsoft has agreed to a deal with th...

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has won the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize -- worth 1 million euros -- which is bestowed by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The new prize represents an international acknowledgement for an outstanding technological innovation that directly pro...

Small outfits have been providing high-speed wireless Internet service to rural and isolated communities for a couple of years, but now larger players, such as Verizon and more recently Nextel, have begun their Internet-access plays to compete with cable and DSL broadband as well as one another. Whi...

Google, operator of the most popular search engine on the Internet, tried to avoid fanfare when it quietly notified some 150,000 advertisers through e-mail that it was modifying its policy on selling keywords that contained trademarked material. Instead, it's ignited a controversy. Speaking on the p...

High-speed wireless provider Wayport will be serving wireless access alongside Bic Macs and Happy Meals to McDonald's customers as the two companies team to roll out 802.11b and 802.11g technology throughout hundreds of the fast-food restaurants. The companies said that after testing with a pilot pr...

An investigative report by a government agency in the United Kingdom has revealed many disabled users find online chores that are routine for most people to be Herculean for them, as they "find it impossible to book a holiday, open a bank account or buy theater tickets online." The study on Internet...


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