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Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items. In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a fes...
Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall. The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, Pau...
One in every 74 e-mail messages on the Internet yesterday carried a new strain of the Sober virus, estimates one security analyst. Although the new Sober variant spread quickly, security experts said that existing anti-virus programs should be able to scrub most infected messages because this virus ...
The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size. Although some programs claim they'll create slideshows suitable for po...
What began as a promising way to protect CDs from piracy has become a public relations nightmare for Sony BMG Entertainment and its digital rights management (DRM) partners, First 4 Internet (F4I) and SunnComm. The new lawsuits leveled at Sony BMG stem from its sale of audio CDs protected with a sch...
Podcasting changed the face of audio on the Web and now it's altering the face of hosting, too. The technology that moved blogging from eye to ear has hosting services revising their pricing to attract the growing ranks of podcasters to their servers and has increased pressure on niche players to re...
The United States Supreme Court dealt online file sharing a body blow in June when it ruled that makers of peer-to-peer (P2P) software could be held liable for illegitimate uses of their applications. Since that decision was handed down in MGM v. Grokster, the P2P world has been floundering, bobbing...
There aren't many tech outfits that can rival Apple Computer when it comes to industrial design, but in the keyboard department, there's one company that can give the Cupertino crew a run for their money. What's most surprising about the company is that it's not really known for its hardware. Softwa...
As the potential of that indefinitely defined technology called Web 2.0 becomes more and more apparent, new applications seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis. But for users forced to hop from site to site for their Web services, the new social Net can be a drag. Moreover, using the new soc...
Microsoft's expected announcement today that it was broadening its presence in the on-demand software market isn't causing leading players in the arena to quake in their code. "I truly don't think Microsoft has anything to sell in that space," maintained Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite in San Mateo, Ca...
Ease of use and design -- not features -- are critical components to consumers' satisfaction with their cell phones, according to a study released yesterday. In fact, as handset makers continue to wedge more and more bells and whistles into their diminutive devices, those aspects of a mobile phone b...
Yahoo continued to raise the ante for content portals on the Net with the launch yesterday of a new original multimedia series by the pasha of adventure travel Richard Bangs. Bangs' initial package for the content aggregator chronicles a climb of the Eiger by John Harlin III whose father died scali...
Pressure to make more consumer friendly a standard for the next generation of DVDs continued to mount yesterday. Boston-based Forrester Research predicted a victory for that standard, Blu-ray, over its rival, HD-DVD, but only a Pyrrhic one if the tough digital rights management (DRM) scheme incorpor...
Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys to their creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand a...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfe...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfe...
Computer crimes targeted at businesses are at their lowest level ever, according to a leading expert in the field. Computer crime, observed Robert Richardson, editorial director for the Computer Security Institute (CSI) in Philadelphia "is as low as it's ever been and has dropped off significantly f...
Some 94 percent of consumers in a recent Harris Interactive survey believe the Internet poses a threat to children. Among the biggest threats perceived by the respondents in the poll -- which was commissioned by San Francisco, California, network security firm Zone Labs, a Check Point company -- wer...
The battle over the mobile e-mail market will be heating up over the coming months, and it's a battle that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is destined to lose. Although RIM's leadership position remains strong in the short-term, analysts say that, in the long run, it will be toppled by the Redmo...
These days, a sure way to get attention to something is to associate it to Apple Computer's hot line of iPod digital music players -- even if that association is a dubious one. That seems to be the case with Pod Slurping. A little over a year ago, Gartner Research in Stamford, Conn., cautioned corpo...
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