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Imagine a war in which the combatants are invisible and the weapons they bear are hidden in trickery and stealth. Now picture that war being waged on a battlefield consisting not of desert fields but of thousands of ragtag computers in bedrooms, dens and corporate cubicles across America. These batt...
Diverging from its usual dedication to Intel-based machines, Microsoft has made public a beta version of Windows XP for use on 64-bit computers running the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. Microsoft said its Windows XP 64-Bit Edition is designed for technical workstation users who require large...
As the entertainment industry attempted this week to overturn a court ruling protecting the operation of file-sharing services on the Internet, peer-to-peer outfits rolled out new products that could cause more hand-wringing among movie and music execs. StreamCast Networks released a new version of ...
In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server. Port80 Software polled the 1,000 most-visited Web sit...
It may already be the de facto voice platform for the Internet, but this week the Voice XML 2.0 specification has moved closer to becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. The W3C, the body responsible for maintaining many of the core standards and protocols at the heart of the ...
Spammers are now targeting mobile phone subscribers throughout Asia, sending text messages through the popular short message service (SMS) system. The practice is generating concern at major technology companies like Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo about a potential emerging tsunami of unwanted e-solicitat...
Major ISPs -- including Microsoft and Yahoo -- have indicated interest in an e-mail "stamp" approach that would charge bulk e-mailers 1 U.S. cent for each piece of e-mail in an effort to differentiate legitimate e-mail marketing from spam. However, critics of the stamp approach -- which, in theory, ...
Big Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the "bigs" say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks. A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services...
Laying the groundwork for the next generation of computer microprocessors that will push clock speeds higher, Intel has released new Pentium 4 desktop chips -- code-named "Prescott" -- that promise improved performance for both consumer and business users. Intel said the desktop processors are the r...
While Apple may have lost the operating system battle to Microsoft, it has become a major player in the digital music market, thanks to the company's successful iPod player and iTunes online music store. However, Microsoft has managed to make its Windows Media Audio (WMA) music format the standard o...
Last Thursday morning, the topic on the Today Show was the MyDoom worm. Matt Lauer, one of the show's two anchors, was interviewing an Internet expert and asked a question near and dear to my own heart: "Is this new virus cyberterrorism?" The expert said no, it was more like cyber vandalism. Clearly...
In the face of criticism that any legislative efforts to curb spam will be limited by national boundaries, the Federal Trade Commission has announced collaboration with 36 agencies in 26 countries to inform ISPs and other organizations that their servers can be used to relay spam with spoofed Intern...
In a move aimed at bolstering its business model after struggling in the PC space and attempting to move into the consumer-electronics market, Gateway has announced it will buy low-end PC seller eMachines for 50 million Gateway shares and $30 million in cash. It is a deal altogether worth about $234...
A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available. Adding 64-bit features would let x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium overcome today's 4-GB...
After its initial print-advertising offensive against the Linux operating system in the United States this month, Microsoft soon will be telling U.K. technology professionals to "Get the Facts" as it broadens its cost-benefits campaign overseas. Microsoft initially launched the multimillion-dollar m...
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