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Has Nanosolar found the Holy Grail of solar energy? For years, the price of solar energy has been so high that, without some form of subsidy, it has been unable to compete with power from the electrical grid. Now Nanosolar, a Palo Alto, California, start-up claims it has developed a "commercial-scal...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight the piracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in San Francisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan. The scheme is the so-called "broadcast flag," a digital rights management (DRM) system for co...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacy and free speech. Those are the sentiments expressed in a white paper released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of a campaign to raise consumer awareness of some of the dangerous terms found in End User Li...
The University of Calgary is at it again. The Canadian school gained some notoriety two years ago when its computer science department launched a course on computer viruses, which included, as part of the coursework, writing a virus. This week, the brains behind the virus course, Assistant Professor...
Congressman Mike Thompson is hoping three times is the charm for his legislation to create a national recycling program for electronic waste. The California Democrat has twice before filed bills to establish national standards for handling e-waste only to see them whither and die in a parliamentary ...
Federal regulators launched a two-prong attack this week on the US$200 million diploma mill industry, an industry populated with online enterprises where students can purchase a degree with minimal or no course work. The first prong was spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which ke...
A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews. The application, called Parent File Scan, was unveiled last week by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- alongside an announcement of the organization'...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the me...
A group that defends civil liberties on the Internet has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the government is secretly gathering information on the surfing habits of citizens. In a copy of the FOIA obtained by TechNewsWorld, th...
A call for financial support by the operator of a BitTorrent server that's been targeted by the motion picture industry as a hub for pirated films has achieved initial success. Edward Webber, operator of Loki Torrent, posted a plea for money at his Web site last week to fight a lawsuit slapped on hi...
A group dedicated to preserving civil liberties on the Internet announced this week that it's throwing its weight behind the development of a technology to foster anonymity in cyberspace. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is sponsoring the Tor Project, which has created an open-source applica...
Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing amounts of bandwidth. For an explanation of the issues surrounding e-mail authentication, TechNewsWorld...
Universities have begun thwarting the operation of software that promises to accelerate Internet performance and protect its users from malware infections because they feel the program is actually spyware. A number of schools, including Columbia University, Cornell, Indiana State and Penn State, hav...
Landing a contract with a major record label can be nirvana for an artist, but it's a heaven out of reach for many musicians. That's because backing an act is risky business. And while record companies can make millions from an artist's success, they can also lose millions, if the artist fails to ca...
Less than a handful of zombie network operators are responsible for all the phishing attacks in the world, according to CipherTrust, an Atlanta-based message security firm. In an analysis of its global customers' e-mail traffic patterns during the first two weeks of this month, CipherTrust researche...
Have you ever felt a burning desire while taking your dog for a walk to know how much money your neighbors have contributed to the Democratic and Republican parties? Well, now you can whip your cell phone out and find out. A New Jersey software tinkerer has written a Java-based program he's distribu...
A court decision that civil libertarians argue could have a far-reaching effect on the privacy of Internet communications in the United States will be reviewed again by federal judges in Boston. The ruling, handed down by a panel of three federal judges in June, found that e-mail service providers m...
When was the last time you updated your anti-virus software? Even if you update your AV software frequently, there's still a gap between the time a virus is released into the wild on "day zero" and when virus fighters can update their programs to squash the malware. To truly secure a network, what's...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
Financial services companies might be unwitting contributors to the nation's identity theft problem, according to a report from Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft costs American businesses US$50 billion to $60 billion a ye...
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