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Comcast and Panasonic are upping their strike capabilities in the consumer entertainment tech wars with the introduction of the AnyPlay portable digital video recorder. With a standard-definition, 60-gigabyte hard drive and DVD/CD player, AnyPlay lets consumers watch their stored TV programming on a...
At least two studies have shown that cell phone use while driving quadruples the risk of an accident. Now, a new study reveals the negative impact cell phones have on traffic -- even when no accident occurs. Drivers chatting on cell phones move about two miles per hour slower than those who give the...
Today's libraries are definitely not the same places where today's senior citizens did their homework after school. Indeed, according to the results from a study conducted by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, today's seniors -- and even many...
Malware is replacing Google text ads with ads from another source, according to BitDefender. The virus, Trojan.Qhost.WU, is using the host's file to redirect the initial query sent to the Google Adsense servers to a malicious host, according to an advisory issued by the firm. The host's file is the...
Tech leaders representing Google, Wikipedia and the Center for Democracy and Technology testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which is mulling reauthorization of the E-Government Act. Signed into law five years ago, it requires government agencies...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to the social networking site's user base in response to a rising crescendo of complaints that its advertising platform, Beacon, is too intrusive. More importantly, Facebook is now letting users opt out of the service -- a step that it has clearly been rel...
Facebook has modified its Beacon ad program by making its off-site broadcasting capabilities more obvious to users and easier to opt out of -- at least, in some cases. However, that adjustment hasn't quelled privacy concerns on the part of users and at least one security vendor. Facebook has been tr...
Organized criminal activity will continue to be a big risk on the Internet next year, but the growing tumors of cyber espionage and cyber warfare could metastasize, suggests security firm McAfee. In fact, it predicts that the rise in international cyber spying will pose the single biggest security t...
Why can't tech companies go green? With such luminaries as Google, IBM and HP forming the vanguard of the clean tech movement, it may seem a silly question to ask. Headlines trumpeting these companies' initiatives -- not to mention the nonstop announcements of new energy-saving IT products -- would ...
Eight contenders for the Republican presidential nomination will be debating each other Wednesday night, courtesy of YouTube and CNN. To be sure, the debate itself will be quite telling, with some pundits already laying odds that front-runner Rudy Giuliani may be dislodged from his perch by the even...
ABC wants to increase its network news viewers by tapping Facebook's constituency -- a younger crowd than the usual audience for its evening news program. The social networking site, for its part, is always on the prowl for new features to keep its 56-million and growing user base happy -- and stick...
Nokia Siemens Networks is introducing environmentally friendly products that offer end users not only a sustainable business model but also bottom-line savings. Taking aim at the largest source of energy consumption in a typical telecom network environment -- the wireless network's base station site...
Microsoft's monthly security update contains only two advisories -- not a bad number for the vendor, which in the past has rolled out fixes for a dozen or more flaws at one time. Another positive thing about this Patch Tuesday was the absence of any vulnerabilities in Vista. Still, the relative scar...
Microsoft's platform of online services and applications -- aka Windows Live -- has graduated from beta after two years of development. At the Windows Live Web site, users can download software for the desktop -- such as Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Windows Live Writer -- and a...
Microsoft is targeting the low end of the enterprise search market with the rollout of a free version of its Search Server 2008 Express. Given the price point -- as well as the emphasis on ease of use -- it is clear that the company is catering to SMBs, which have been somewhat overlooked by establi...
MySpace and Facebook are the clear winners -- so far -- in the social networking wars, but Yahoo has fired an opening salvo in what may be the next heated skirmish: business and employment networking. Yahoo's Kickstart is meant to help college students launch their professional careers. To be sure, ...
Anticipation is building as Google prepares to formally introduce its social networking platform. Called "OpenSocial," it provides tools for developers to create applications and widgets that can be ported to any participating network. Partners that have signed on range from Friendster to Plaxo to S...
Google is getting set to make a splash in the burgeoning social networking space with the introduction on Thursday of OpenSocial. It is rare for Google to be behind the curve of any Internet trend -- much less one that has become nearly mainstream in the last few years. However, it's making up for l...
T-Mobile has introduced the first product in a new smartphone line, dubbed the "Shadow." In a departure for a wireless carrier, T-Mobile worked closely with Microsoft and the device manufacturer throughout the product's development. The Shadow's user interface is based on features in Microsoft Windo...
Google has upgraded its Gmail offering by augmenting it with IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol. Essentially, this level of connectivity allows users to access e-mail from multiple devices while keeping that information simultaneously synced no matter which device or desktop was used to acces...
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