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Microsoft is making it clear that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP -- a more than 220-MB software update dubbed "XP plus" and "mini-Longhorn" by some industry watchers -- will have a sizeable effect on other applications as it seeks to shut out security weaknesses in enterprise systems. Microsoft...
Two new technologies from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) -- a Xerox subsidiary and spinoff company that has produced laser printing, Ethernet and the graphical user interface, among other innovations -- promise to make wireless connections simpler and safer while giving today's mobile devices ...
With John Kerry almost certainly destined to emerge victorious from the Democratic primary fray, he is turning up the heat on the hot-button topic of overseas outsourcing -- and the Bush administration is preparing to respond in earnest. The overall US$10 billion IT outsourcing market still makes up...
Ahhh-choo! Ahh, lucky you. Every time you are exposed to a virus, your immune system builds resistance to that particular bug. So, why can't we build computers that do the same thing? "If our bodies functioned like computers, we'd be extinct," said Steve Hofmeyr, founder and chief scientist of Sana ...
In a plot twist reminiscent of a soap opera, domain registrar GoDaddy is throwing its support to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is being sued by competing registrar VeriSign. The lawsuit involves ICANN's demand that VeriSign suspend its controversial SiteFinde...
Like a city corner that has fallen victim to the graffiti tag signs of rival gangs, the Internet has now become the basis of a war of words and worms between virus writers, who are unleashing virus variants to eat one another's work and spread to more computers. The exchange among virus writers and ...
An attempt to exclude evidence from a music piracy case seized in sweeping raids by the Australian recording industry has been rejected by a federal court judge. The evidence was gathered February 5th by Music Industry Privacy Investigations (MIPI), the enforcement agent of Australia's recording ind...
The evolution of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags into a viable enterprise enabler is almost complete. The pressure put on suppliers by such companies as Wal-Mart and Tescos will, through commercial inertia and economies of scale, ensure the price of individual tags and associated readers ...
The number of broadband digital subscriber lines (DSL) connecting users to the Internet grew 78 percent worldwide last year to more than 63 million, according to research from Point Topic and the DSL Forum, a consortium of DSL companies. China led the way and now holds the world's largest DSL market...
The list of lawsuits involving SCO Group grew longer this week as the company sued AutoZone for its use of the Linux operating system and DaimlerChrysler for alleged violations of its Unix software agreement with SCO. In suing car-parts store AutoZone, SCO made good on its threat to sue Linux users ...
Key the words "free porn" into a search engine on your home PC. Most likely, you will obtain a list of more than 6 million URLs, the government's top lawyer said this week. "Internet porn is persistent and unavoidable," Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the lawyer for the Bush Administration, told t...
When the Internet first emerged into the mainstream, companies like Yahoo evolved rapidly from startups into successful corporations by helping users sift though mountains of information to find the data they needed. But as the Internet grew, many of those companies shifted their attention away from...
To online file-traders, it is the original, pure file format for digital music. To the recording industry, it is a pirate ship that has been the basis for copyright violation and lost revenue. Regardless of what it once was and is now, the MP3 format is getting a facelift to include copy protection....
The recent rush to adopt technologies for countering e-mail abuses like spam and phishing could pose a dangerous threat to freedom on the Internet. "These proposals are extremely dangerous," Eric Johansson, a networking consultant for the TriArche Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Tec...
Touting findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and other Internet use researchers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has credited its controversial strategy of suing individual file-sharers with cutting the number of illegal trades in half. TechNewsWorld talked w...
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