Network Security
Is It Time To Say Goodbye to Paper Money?
January 30, 2006 7:00AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Creating a cashless society in the U.S. with either mobile phones or smart cards would require enormous effort by players in several industries, ...
Strength in Numbers: Taking the Right Angle on Grid Computing
To many people, grid computing remains an alien concept. Perhaps the most widely known example of this technology is the SETI@home project, established in 1999 as a global grid-computing effort to detect ...
Microsoft Writes a New Chapter with Online Book Search
October 28, 2005 10:35AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Microsoft and its partners are at pains to reassure publishers, printers, and authors that they will respect copyright laws. The MSN announcement comes ...
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Delayed
October 13, 2005 10:02AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us According to a blog posting on OpenSource.org, “a serious showstopper” apparently related to graphics was detected at the last moment, and developers agreed ...
Report Warned of FEMA I.T. Problems in Wake of 2004 Hurricanes
Faulty federal computer networks may have been partly to blame for the government’s lackadaisical response to major storms last summer — and Hurricane Katrina this year, experts say.A new federal audit of ...
File-Sharing Traffic Shifts in Wake of Piracy Crackdown
August 30, 2005 9:30AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us “Unlike something like BitTorrent, which has server operators that can be found and sued, eDonkey runs on open-source software,” Bernoff noted. “So even ...
Senate Committee Meets To Consider File-Sharing Legislation
July 29, 2005 11:50AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff believes that a move toward more legislation governing file-sharing applications will have limited effect. “Since a bunch of them ...
MGM v. Grokster: What Comes Next for File Sharing?
For intellectual-property attorneys, the lead-up to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the MGM vs. Grokster case was like being in a crowded sports bar before the Super Bowl. Bets were ...
Gartner Outlines Top Security Threats
Firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and antivirus software are the high-priority defenses information technology (I.T.) managers are pursuing this year to combat I.T. security threats, according to results of a new survey ...
Apple, Intel Rumored To Be in Talks
Apple Computer Inc.”s computers could eventually be outfitted with chips from Intel Corp., according to reports.The two companies are reportedly in talks that, if fruitful, could result in Apple joining old nemesis ...