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Sean North, president of North Notes, LLC, earlier in his career worked for five years on a computer help desk, supporting employees who didn't have proper computer training and didn't know a PC from a portal. "It does seem like one needs to be certified in IT just to be able to use a PC or a laptop...
Authorities in Romania are investigating another suspected writer of a Blaster variant, according to Bucharest-based BitDefender, which reported similarities between the 24-year-old suspect and Jeffrey Lee Parson, the Minnesota teenager accused of authoring a different Blaster variant. The U.S. arre...
With nearly 10 million Americans reporting identity theft that cost banks and other businesses nearly $48 billion last year, the Federal Trade Commission said the problem is worse than previously estimated. The latest FTC survey on identity theft, which revealed more than 27 million victims of this ...
Online and on-demand media services in digital form are likely to make CDs and DVDs obsolete as consumers switch to downloads and streaming media to get their music, movies and other entertainment, according to Forrester Research. Providing evidence that downloads cost the music industry $700 millio...
Using several new technologies and more than 1,000 dual-processor Power Mac G5 computers, Virginia Tech University is building a supercomputer cluster that is likely to rank among the fastest in the world. In addition to the G5 machines, the university said it is using a beta version of the latest r...
In a bizarre twist to the file-sharing fight in which the Recording Industry Association of America is using copyright law to pursue file traders, search engine Google pulled links to sites hawking unofficial Kazaa alternatives after the popular file-swapping service made its own copyright-infringem...
The other day I was asked what the odds were that SCO would win against IBM. On the basis of how the two parties were behaving, I offered a range of between 55 and 65 percent. One of the strongest indications I have that SCO might win is that several of the financial analyst groups who work with me,...
SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The business-focused antivirus company, in its monthly virus ranking, pegged the newest viruses as the to...
Analysts credit advance warning about the Blaster worm, in addition to Microsoft's clever rewriting of standard Internet-connection protocols, as the weapons used in defeating a denial-of-service attack against the software company's Windows help Web site on August 16th. The Blaster worm, which infe...
The universal shortage of nurses in particular and healthcare workers in general is getting worse. Meanwhile, baby boomers are moving like a tidal wave toward assisted-living homes. Soon, patients could face the choice of being cared for by a robotic nurse or no nurse at all. When Pearl, a robotic n...
Hard-drive maker Seagate is shipping new hard drives that use a new digital video standard that, according to the company, makes them better able to store streaming video for digital video recorders. Seagate's new hard drives are among the industry's first to implement the new streaming command-set ...
Federal officials reportedly have closed in on an 18-year-old man believed to be the author of a variant of the Blaster worm, which affected nearly half a million computers earlier this month. An announcement of the suspect's arrest was expected in Seattle, Washington, near the headquarters of Micro...
As exciting as the Internet's past 30 years have been, they're only a shadow of what is to come. We are already catching glimpses of the future in projects sponsored by universities and pharmaceutical research labs. Grid computing -- a Web-based operation that will allow companies to share computing...
The Recording Industry Association of America has come under legal fire again, this time from a group of Internet broadcasters that claim the industry group broke federal antitrust law and has kept royalty rates high to hinder independent Webcasters. Webcaster Alliance, a trade group of approximatel...
This week, security software developer Symantec announced Norton Antivirus 2004, the newest version of the company's antivirus software. While this product will provide consumers with new kinds of protection against some emerging nonvirus threats -- such as spyware and keystroke-logging programs -- ...
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