Apple updates strengthen wireless security
Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers. Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal au...
Apple Hits Podcast Ready with Nastygram
Apple Computer has slapped Podcast Ready with a "cease and desist" letter, claiming that the terms "Podcast Ready" and "myPodder" infringe Apple's trademarks, and that they cause confusion among consu...
Flash In The VoIP Pan
Adobe Systems, the San Jose, California-based software giant, has been the real catalyst for the ongoing online video boom, thanks to the near ubiquitous Flash software that plays back everything from...
Marketing on Google: It's Not Just Text Anymore
Just as Madison Avenue once helped convince consumers that orange juice is "not just for breakfast anymore," Google is turning to Madison Avenue to help convince marketers that Google is not just for ...
Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent ...
You gotta fight (blarng blarng) for your right (blarng blarng) to Skyyyyyy-yyyype
If you were listing markets that are ripe for Skype, you'd get to college campuses pretty quickly. You've got students on student budgets with far-flung friends and family; you've got faculty on facu...
MTV Will Acquire Maker of Music-Oriented Games
MTV, the cable TV channel some critics have accused of straying too far from its musical roots, is to acquire Harmonix Music Systems, a maker of music-oriented video games, for $175 million in cash. ...
3 Reasons Why Delicious Bookmarks Beat Digg Traffic Hands Down
Which is better, del.icio.us bookmark traffic or the stampede that comes with a big Digg? — Well, I was fortunate enough to have a post make both the top of the de.licio.us popular page and the fron...
Exclusive: Mysterious Paypal Secure Storage
PayPal is preparing a new feature on a select range of users that allows them to securely store files with the payments provider. The new service, called DropBox, creates a secure storage area that i...
Teeny Linux PCs proliferate
A small company has begun building its line of tiny, gumstick-sized single-board computers (SBCs) into miniscule packaged PCs that displace around 68 cc of volume and come with Linux pre-installed. S...
Kernel developers' position on GPLv3
The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3 — Trond Myklebust David Woodhouse … 1 Linux and GPLv2 — Over the past decade, the Linux Operating System has shown itself to be far and away the mos...
The Art of Distribution
One of the important insights that the Startups 2006 panel hammered home was the importance of distribution for consumer-facing startups. (By the way, an astounding 13,000 people watched this video d...
Facebook, a social site, has a suitor
Mark Zuckerberg is a member of the Google generation, one too young to remember all the ambitions dashed and fortunes lost when the last dot-com boom ended. — That may be one reason Zuckerberg, the ...
Inconvenience of two-factor security pushes banks to "single factor plus" for online banking
For the nation's banking industry, the clock is ticking. By Dec 31, banks and financial institutions had better move to something more than just user ID and password-level security …
Microsoft Dismisses Repair Fees On Early Xbox 360s, Acknowledges Quality Problems
Microsoft issued a statement today acknowledging that its early run of Xbox 360s made in 2005 were buggy and that it would rescind any repair fee on boxes that need service as long as they were manufa...
A quick entry on the VML issue.
Hi everyone, Scott Deacon here again. Wanted to update you on what we've seen to date with the VML issue. Attacks remain limited. There's been some confusion about that, that somehow attacks are dr...
Intelligent wheelchair helps you avoid hazards
Late last month, we regaled you with a story about Toyota's advanced collision detection technology that uses sensory data to trigger an automatic slowdown in cars. Clearly, one of the research teams...
Researchers create a 1,000 page-per-minute printer
If you're like us, the few times a year that you do have to print things out often involve stressful moments — like when you're running late for your flight and the 30 seconds that it takes to print o...
Sony Cuts Price of PlayStation 3 to $410
TOKYO — Sony Corp. said Friday it will lower the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft a...