Network Security
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
September 25, 2007 10:06AM The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — ...
Video Site Veoh Sues To Stop Universal
August 10, 2007 10:48AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Faced with a lawsuit from Universal, Veoh has asked a court for declaratory relief, a preemptive defensive move in which the court, if ...
Internet Pioneers Propose Blogger Code of Conduct
April 10, 2007 9:13AM Some of the rules in the new Blogger’s Code of Conduct — proposed by Tim O’Reilly, a technology publisher, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia — include banning ...
Gartner Predicts the Blogosphere’s Future
December 15, 2006 11:00AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us Gartner’s new report about blogging predicts that today’s overexuberance will give way to a steady set of some 30 million bloggers around the ...
ICANN Rejects ‘.travel’ Search Plan
December 1, 2006 7:52AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.cio.us As proposed by Tralliance, users who type a “.travel” name that does not exist would get a Web page inviting them to register ...
Spam Levels Up by 80 Percent
As vendors come up with new techniques, spammers do, too. Image spam began popping up a few months ago, and security vendors responded with products that create a “fingerprint” of the message ...
Qtrax Goes Legit with EMI Music Deal
June 6, 2006 8:01AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Mike Goodman, an analyst at Yankee Group, said that the new incarnation of Qtrax was not all that different from the new, current ...
Monitoring Employee Communications in the Enterprise
The rationale behind monitoring employees is that a computer at work is a corporate tool for enhancing the employee’s productivity. Because some people abuse that privilege by sending personal e-mail and viewing ...
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 ...