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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...
Software engineers at Microsoft's laboratory in Cambridge, England, have developed a new, proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) technology that is being eyed by Hollywood producers as a potential distribution channel for their content. Code-named "Avalanche," the product is said by Microsoft to be a safer ...
Matt Drudge may be the world's most famous blogger, having outed former President Clinton and his pudgy paramour Monica Lewinsky online. His successors on the Internet made blogging a political force during last year's presidential election, and may have helped George W. Bush retain the White House ...
The controversy over P2P -- or peer-to-peer network -- file-sharing continues as the technology and entertainment industries are this week eying the U.S. Supreme Court for a pivotal decision that could determine the future of music on the Internet. The ruling on MGM v. Grokster, which could be annou...
Producers at film studio Dreamworks relied on HP ProLiant servers, using the AMD Opteron processor, when making the new hit movie "Madagascar." The story concerns animals from a New York City zoo who are resettled to Africa, where they have a hard time coping with life in the wild. "HP helps animato...
Microsoft is edging closer to a release of its long-awaited new operating system -- code-named Longhorn -- with the debut of two technologies expected to be included in the OS, and the announcement of a new suite of applications for next year, Microsoft Office 12.0. "Those areas where Office has got...
Former California governor Jerry Brown -- once a darling of the mainstream media -- now has his own blog, where he can get his message directly to voters, without any interpretation by print or electronic journalists. Politicians in North Dakota, similarly, have taken to blogging to market their mes...
Municipal wireless networks are generating a great deal of controversy lately, compelling some state legislatures to seek to outlaw them. The reason for the public policy power play at state houses? Powerful wireless service providers and cable companies are lobbying behind the scenes, in states lik...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week brought out another round of copyright infringement cases, including lawsuits against individuals at 14 U.S. universities. The civil actions targeted 477 alleged file-sharers, including 69 individuals allegedly using university networks ...
An appeals brief filed by lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission argues that a legal decision earlier this year by an administrative law judge favoring Rambus was incorrect, and that the chip products maker may gain as much as $3 billion in illicit royalties as a result of its allegedly fraudulent...
Sales growth was slower than expected -- and inflated by the depressed dollar overseas -- at IBM last quarter. So Big Blue is reorganizing a bit. "IBM today is a company ready to focus more on opportunities than on threats," said IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano in a speech earlier today at ...
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