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The latest emerging IT security threat to the enterprise -- viruses conveyed by instant messaging (IM) technology -- is increasingly taking up the time of security experts, who are implementing an array of solutions to staunch the flow of malware. Research shows that among 2,200 identified IM and P2...
CEOs of leading firms in the electronics manufacturing industry recently testified before Congress, seeking government support for initiatives that would promote the use of used mobile phones. A number of states and localities have mobile phone recycling projects underway, but some in the industry w...
A number of government-led plans are under consideration to rebuild the telecommunications infrastructure in the Gulf Coast, which was badly damaged by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina -- and experts say that technologies from mesh networks to smart radios are likely to be deployed there. Federal Communi...
Companies investing in VoIP across Latin America and South America are anticipating that they will generate revenue in several ways. There will be call handling, both inbound and outbound communications. There will be monthly subscriptions, with bundled minutes for national and international calling...
You have a right to privacy at home, and can e-mail anyone, or visit any Internet site you choose. But do you have the same legal protections at the office? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld, as, increasingly, employers monitor not only e-mail, but Internet usage, and, in some cases, phone ca...
A number of new music file-sharing projects are in the offing here and overseas, enabling pop music fans to swap songs for a fee. This month, Sony BMG will begin offering a legal, peer-to-peer music file sharing service with UK-based Internet service provider (ISP) Playlouder. Customers can share fi...
Verizon is moving forward aggressively with plans to expand its broadband offerings, throughout the U.S. But experts tell TechNewsWorld that the moves are necessary, and timely, because broadband competition is rapidly accelerating, especially in the wireless market. Last week, Verizon began offeri...
Consortia led by Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink are the finalists for a proposed city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia that government officials hope to have online within two months. While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making headlines in the west, back east, the city WiFi network is close to...
Computer industry firms are struggling to cope with the dearth of IT talent -- especially now that the economy is heating up again. Microsoft founder and chief software architect Bill Gates in July decried the decline in American college students who desire careers in computer science and said somet...
Sun Microsystems recently reported decreased revenues for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, but you wouldn't know anything was amiss by the other actions of the company. Sun is planning massive investments overseas -- primarily in India -- and has reached deals to develop new thin client techno...
Financial institutions are deploying new authentication technologies -- like graphical watermarks -- to hamper hackers who can somehow slip past biometric and token technologies, experts tell TechNewsWorld. "We've seen evidence of new Trojans that bypass most two-factor authentication devices -- e.g
The idealism behind the Mozilla Foundation -- established in 2003 as a non-profit corporation to promote open-source software -- is giving way this week to financial realism: The company has announced that it is launching a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corp., to develop, market and distribute ...
Is the Federal Communications Commission distorting statistics on broadband subscriber growth in the U.S.? An activist group in New York City thinks so, and has filed a complaint against the FCC, suggesting that the agency is inflating the figures for political purposes. Last week, TeleTruth, an all...
Two of the world's most important public broadcasters have seen the future of TV -- and it is on the broadband Internet. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) have disclosed plans to launch Internet-only programming, starting this September. The PBS Internet...
The federal government is now in the zombie-hunting business -- and is deputizing virtually every Internet Service Provider in the United States as it seeks to halt the flow of unwanted spam e-mail in this country and overseas. The Federal Trade Commission, the federal anti-trust watchdog, is planni...
The federal government is moving forward with a proposal to tap -- and track -- in-flight Internet communications, experts tell TechNewsWorld. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, teaming with the Department of Homeland Security, is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission, an independent a...
An array of state legislatures are moving forward with measures this year to regulate automobile event data recorders -- the so-called "black boxes" that monitor vehicle speed, seat belt use and other safety data, according to experts. According to a report by Pam Greenberg, an analyst with the legi...
Federal rules crafted to curtail "adult entertainment" sites will not be enforced against sites involved in litigation against the government until after Labor Day, according to a temporary agreement reached by the U.S. Department of Justice and Web site producers. The proposed regulations, amendmen...
Convicted computer criminals are getting drastically different sentences, depending upon the jurisdiction in which they are tried, with one notorious hacker netting a very light suspended sentence, experts tell TechNewsWorld. A judge in Germany today handed down a suspended sentence of a year and ni...
The battle over the nominee to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is already roaring -- on the Internet. An array of sites -- from the left and the right -- have already sprouted online, touting the views of their sponsors, and claiming that the nomination is the most im...
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