Tech Trends
Broadband Usage Is Growing, But Gaps Still Persist
A new report finds a “digital divide” between those Americans with broadband access and those without. The report found that while the percentage of households that use broadband grew, non-Hispanic white Americans ...
P2P Traffic Still Dominates the Net
P2P Traffic Still Dominates the Net At the end of 2004, BitTorrent accounted for 30 percent of all Internet traffic. But after the Motion Picture Association of America’s moves to shut down ...
Can Students Learn As Well on iPads and E-Books?
There’s no doubt that the technological trend toward iPads and e-books in education offers students more and better information at lightning speed. But is more necessarily better? Some argue that the online ...
Microsoft and Novell Enter Landmark Linux Partnership
The new deal between Microsoft and Novell is being hailed as a historic agreement that could have major implications for Linux and other open-source software. If all goes according to plan, Microsoft ...
Online Music Wars Take New Turn
“The manner in which the industry has reacted to technological change in the past seven years shows that the people running these companies clearly have their heads in the sand, and some ...
Australians Blocked from Kazaa P2P Client Downloads
Industry experts are watching the Kazaa case in Australia because it marks the first time that the major recording labels have gone on the attack against piracy outside of the United States. ...
Google-AOL Deal: What Would It Bring?
Although there has been concern voiced about the Google-AOL deal, some analysts have noted that it is very likely the partnership will, in fact, be forged and that changes for users will ...
Putting Open Source to the Test
Microsoft officials said they support open standards and open source but are disappointed that the state accepted Adobe Systems’ PDF product for office applications, yet rejected Microsoft’s OpenOffice XML, a perpetual, royalty-free ...
VoIP Services Enabling Video Calls
SightSpeed figures that as long as it can get people to try out its free product, they’ll become hooked on its superior technology and eventually trade up to a paid premium service. ...
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, ...