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Citing limited bandwidth and potential security issues, the Pentagon has cut off U.S. troops' access to several social networking and other high-volume Web sites. Soldiers can still post to MySpace and YouTube -- two of the banned sites --but only from outside networks. However, most overseas milita...
For the second time this year, hackers have victimized the University of Missouri. The names and Social Security numbers of 22,396 current or former students who were employed by UM during 2004 may have been compromised, according to university officials. The hacker or hackers reportedly gained acce...
A virtual equivalent of fisticuffs has broken out online, and this time it's between a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and a once-ardent supporter. Joe Anthony, a Los Angeles paralegal who set up an unofficial MySpace page for Senator Barack Obama in 2004, has been pushed out ...
The rules of the road were fairly clear to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, until this week. Users generally were given free rein, except when they violated the site's terms of use -- for example, by linking to porn or racial hate sites, or to illegal downloads. Recent events have thrown Rose off his st...
In 2006, the U.S. high-tech sector employed 5.8 million people -- up by 146,600, or 3 percent -- according to a widely watched report on the subject from AeA, a nationwide nonprofit trade association. Not since the dot-com heyday in 2000 has the U.S. tech job environment looked so inviting, accordin...
Gadget geeks engaged in the digital equivalent of reading chicken entrails to determine which high-def format the market will ultimately embrace received mixed signals from the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps on Monday, which were promptly rebutted by the opposition. First came the news that 70 percent of ...
You don't have to be a Democrat to scoff at the White House's recent assertion that some e-mails related to the recent firing of eight U.S. attorneys may be permanently lost. You just have to know something about networking and computers. "To truly lose an e-mail to the point that it is unrecoverabl...
The U.S. government has received the not-so-stellar grade of "C-" in an annual report card on its IT security practices. The good news is that compared to earlier rankings mandated by the Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA, the government has improved its score. The Department of ...
The Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling has environmentalists jubilant, and if they are willing to admit it, Bush administration critics indulging in a bit of Schadenfreude. In a 5-4 decision, the Court found that the Environmental Protection Agency in fact does h...
It didn't take long for the U.S. EPA to react to the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency ruling. The agency announced that California can move forward with its plans to reduce tailpipe emissions from cars, light trucks and sport utility vehicles -- in effect, setting the...
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate automobile emissions, contrary to the Bush administration's position. While rooted in a technicality -- a state's challenge to a federal agency's interpretation of the law -- the decision in Massachuse...
For the third time, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the overseer of the Internet's domain-name address system -- has rejected a proposal to create a top level .xxx domain, and opponents of the adult-themed suffix hope three times is the charm. "This decision was th...
President George Bush cited the observations of two Iraqi bloggers who have been making positive posts about the changing situation in Baghdad as evidence that U.S. activities there are finally having the intended effect. "Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity,...
In the first month of its availability, Microsoft Vista sold more than 20 million licenses -- more than double the number of first-month sales of Windows XP. In January 2002, the company announced sales of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market. The 20 million fig...
After promising to maintain a civilized tone, Sen. Barack Obama has sent a shot across the bow of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign in an advertisement for his 2008 bid for the presidency now appearing on YouTube. Or did he? The video -- a biting commentary on Clinton's presumed frontrunner status for...
Data theft has become the raison d'etre for malware on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. As in previous years, the vendor reported upticks in data thefts, malware and phishing scams. What is different about this year, said Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering at Symantec Se...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized Google, widely considered to be the software giant's primary rival, in comments made to students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. A truly entrepreneurial company reinvents itself over and over again, according to Ballmer, but Google has rel...
The Patent and Trademark Office has launched a pilot project designed to facilitate the patent approval process. While the efficiency benefit of this is obvious -- the PTO's examiners are overburdened and the process can take many years -- critics are concerned that the system could lead to manipula...
Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Google may be an official verb in the...
Last year, when Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google couldn't. However, the search engine community knew better. Of course, Google reset the benchmark...
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