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Verizon Wireless Readies 4G Network
November 30, 2007 8:45AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Following news that Verizon will use Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its 4G network, Chris Hazelton, an analyst with IDC, noted that the ...
Google’s Storage Plans Raise Plenty of Concerns
Google maps, Google search, Google mail, and next it seems will be Google storage, although the company has yet to announce official details. Increasingly, when Google sneezes, entire industries catch cold, and ...
U.N. Web Forum Takes on Cybercrime
November 15, 2007 7:36AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us The four-day U.N.-sponsored forum, which ends Thursday, brings together some 2,000 representatives from the information-technology industry, governments and civil society to discuss the ...
MySpace Still Denies Security Holes
Following widespread reports that the MySpace pages of music bands are regularly being infected with malware, Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle said he agrees that there is a yet-to-be-reported ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
October 18, 2007 7:44AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent ...
Did China’s Great Firewall Cause Web Outage?
GreatFire.org, a group in opposition to China’s censorship that monitor’s the nation’s Internet goings on, has three theories about the Internet outage in China. Two of them are related to Falun Gong, ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
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 — has failed to produce ...
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 — ...
Is Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Legal?
The legal status of unlocking an Apple iPhone is somewhat murky, as the main law in this area is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids the circumvention of copy-protection technology. But ...
Patch Tuesday Highlights Web-Based Malware
By Jennifer LeClaire August 15, 2007 9:02AM The number of updates Microsoft issued on August’s Patch Tuesday dwarfs the number of patches released over the past several months and highlights the new ...