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Do you hate your cell phone but can't live without it? You're not alone. Nearly one in three adult Americans told researchers in a study released Wednesday that the cell phone was the invention they hated most but couldn't live without. Thirty percent of the adults in the researchers' sample put the...
In an effort to pair and propel two emerging technologies, IBM, HP, Akamai and other tech companies have proposed new specs to integrate grid computing with Web services. The companies, which announced the new WS-Notification and WS-Resource Framework specs, said the proposed standards represent the...
A new program offered by IBM could have a major impact on Windows users' move to Linux, industry insiders speculate. IBM has announced it is providing training to its business partners, gratis, on migration from Windows NT to Linux. The company also is offering financial incentives to move from Wind...
The legal and social debate over the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has made headlines since the days of Napster and Hotline -- and continues to be a major issue today. While there are certainly other hotspots in the tech industry, the P2P debate serves as a focal point for some of th...
Microsoft is facing criticism over compliance with its antitrust settlement as several states raise concerns that the deal is not promoting as much software competition as it was supposed to. In a court filing with the U.S. District Court, the states complained that Microsoft's protocol-licensing pr...
A hornets' nest of fury over a video game that urges its players to "kill the Haitians" has prompted a South Florida city to approve -- at least initially -- a sweeping ordinance to regulate games sold or rented to minors. The law, proposed by North Miami's Joe Celestin, a Haitian-American, imposes ...
Move over, pop-ups. There is a new Internet advertising format that promises television-quality video and audio without the usual stutters that typically have been associated with streaming media. Online advertising company Unicast unveiled this week its "video commercial" online ad format, which th...
Here in the United States, we are in the midst of regularly scheduled insanity where, as part of the process to elect our top government official, the party that opposes the current administration does its best to discredit all of its eligible candidates and then wonders why a sitting president is a...
If your name were Mike Rowe and you created Web site software, the thought of an Internet site at MikeRoweSoft.com might sound like a good bet. But as a 17-year-old Canadian named Mike Rowe has found out, that bet turned out to be risky. Redmond, Washington-based supercorporation Microsoft contacted...
A worm -- known as Bagle -- is spreading primarily among Asian and Pacific Rim computers. It does not disguise itself as porn, pictures from friends or funny jokes, yet its simplicity has already duped many users into running the attached executable and perpetuating its existence. Arriving with the ...
James Van Dyke had a hunch last year that the commonly held belief that the Internet was causing an increase in identity theft and credit card fraud was not valid. Extensive research he conducted debunks many of the myths about the correlation between online activity and ID theft. Contrary to popula...
Redirecting its wireless course after betting on the weaker of two technologies, Intel has introduced an 802.11g wireless network connection aimed at boosting the speed and capability of wireless local area networks. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said its new PRO/Wireless 2200BG netwo...
Because of his background in assembly-level programming and low-level C coding on machines with slow CPUs and very little RAM, David Wren, PassMark Software's founder, had a strong interest in coding efficiency and computer performance. It was from this interest that PassMark's benchmark application...
The Internet population of China continues to grow and now totals nearly 80 million people, according to a new report released this week. According to the report, there were only 620,000 Chinese Internet users in 1997. With a total population of more than 1.2 billion people, China represents the lar...
Information technology researcher Meta Group predicts that less than half of all corporate computer users will use a desktop as their primary information device within two years. A new report from the research firm highlights the mobile-computing trend that has been boosted by lower laptop prices, i...
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