Tech Trends
Amazon Rain Forest Shrinking Twice as Quickly as Previously Estimated
Ecologists and Brazilian officials long have known that illegal selective logging occurs, says Dr. Asner, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, based at Stanford University in Palo Alto, ...
Novell Releases SuSE Linux 10
Novell announced that SuSE Linux 10.0 will be available in October 2005 and will include more than 1,500 open-source applications and packages that can be installed for advanced Web hosting, application development ...
Aussies Turn Web Search Upside Down
Andrew Stead, of New South Innovations, is confident that Orion will fill a gap in the market highlighted by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. “Gates was recently quoted in Forbes magazine as saying ...
Massachusetts Plans To Ditch Microsoft Software
Open source consultant Sam Hiser said OpenOffice is widely used in some emerging countries but as yet has very limited use in the US. He added the decision to switch to open ...
Spyware Worm Targets Gamers, Yahoo Users
“We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. TIBCO Staffware ...
Broadband Rulings Draw User Concerns
Rulings by the FCC and the Supreme Court that DSL and cable modem services are exempt from telecommunications regulation could boot some ISPs off these facilities or raise their access fees significantly. ...
New York Courts Find Security in IP Video
For the court’s I.T. group, high-bandwidth video is just another stream on an IP network built several years ago with enormous capacity, now tapped to deploy a variety of advanced services. Also ...
Fox Backs Blu-ray Next-Gen DVD Format
Yankee Group analyst Nitin Gupta suggested that surveys can be skewed by any company to get the results it seeks. Gupta noted that the poll about HD DVD versus Blu-ray makes no ...
Nations Join To Fight Spam
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Spain’s data protection authority, Agencia Española de Proteccion de Datos, recently signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding to promote enhanced cooperation and information sharing on spam ...
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X has recently become interesting even to people outside the Cult of Macintosh. The more Microsoft Windows is bogged down by viruses, spyware and disruptive security updates, the more miserable ...