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THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft's operating system Vista.
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While everyone was busy crapping on the late and over-hyped Windows Vista (it didn't break down during the demonstration, thankfully) Microsoft was busy invading your living room, and it's a two-pronged attack:
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Anyone who hates Microsoft has been lapping up the news that the company sent fancy-schamncy Acer Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to about 90 bloggers. The story began surfacing last week.
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Technical Mujahid, a 64-page electronic magazine, began circulating last week on jihadist discussion forums. The purpose is "to help prevent acts of aggression against Muslims [in cyberspace], and to assist the mujahideen in their efforts,"
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We see the open dissemination of ideas as conducive to competition - the best ideas of different programmers compet to produce code that is first rate.
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A hacker who as a teen cracked the encryption on DVDs has found a way to unlock the code that prevents iPod users from playing songs from download music stores other than Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes, his company said.
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Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc on Sunday announced that it would pay $1 million to the first person to develop software to improve the accuracy of Netflix's movie recommendation system by 10 percent.
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A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security Department money, is developing software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas.
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McAfee, Symantec and other security software companies argue Microsoft's new Vista operating system will make it more difficult to protect customers because for the first time, they have been denied access to the core of the operating system.
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Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis.
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As with past Windows releases, the question for small- and medium-size businesses isn't if they'll upgrade, it's when. (Resistance is Futile?)
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In spite of claims by Microsoft Corp. that its forthcoming Windows Vista is a secure version, a researcher at the Black Hat hacker conference last week demonstrated how the system can be hacked.
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Microsoft execs handed a test version of Vista to attendees of the Black Hat - "They are going to people who don't like them, say nasty things and have the incentive to find the things that are wrong."
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Nuance Communications says the latest version of its speech-recognition software can achieve--with some speakers--99% accuracy out of the box, without a "training" session to familiarize the software with how a particular person talks. It w
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who last year struck a settlement with America Online regarding its customer service policies, will meet with AOL to discuss if the Internet services giant still blocks customers from canceling their accounts.
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A little-known capability in Google's search engine has helped security vendor Websense uncover thousands of malicious Web sites, as well as several legitimate sites that have been hacked, the company said.
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Robotics has captured the minds and imagination of those inside and outside the technology market, but as a market unto itself, robotics can barely get its act together. Microsoft announced a set of development tools to help this market.
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Hyperactive Bob, the kitchen production management computer system from Hyperactive Technologies, is now being licensed to Zaxby's, a fast-food restaurant chain. This artificially intelligent computer system gives orders to employees
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Yahoo! Answers, an online community where people can ask and answer questions on any topic, has kicked off an "Ask the Planet" campaign to herald the service's graduation from beta testing.
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Even as PCs and home video-game systems become friendlier to casual players, the common cellphone is morphing into a device intended to entice hard-core gamers.
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Google released an updated version of its Google Earth satellite imagery application. The company says that more than 20 percent of the landmass of the entire globe is now covered with high-resolution satellite imagery, allowing about one third of th
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Before 1979, when Bricklin released the first spreadsheet, known as VisiCalc, personal computers still mainly were programming toys for hobbyists. VisiCalc changed that. By allowing businesses and households to automate their financial management
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Rugged veteran Iranian special forces hero "Commander Bahman" will soon be tackling one of his toughest missions, rescuing one of his country's top atomic scientists captured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
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Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files, or implant malicious programs, researchers said. Symantec said it was investigating the issue,
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The International Data Corp. says that, despite court battles in the United States between the SCO Group and major Unix users, Chinese banks and industry are rapidly replacing SCO Unix installations with Linux, Shenzhen Daily reported Thursday.
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Apple Computer Inc. unveiled new software that allows Intel-based Macs to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP software. Apple shares rose nearly 7 percent in early trading. Free download.
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A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices named a widely used file-sharing program, Kazaa, and 3 other applications as violators of its guidelines.
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Encryption features in Microsoft's upcoming OS release, Windows Vista, could pose tricky challenges for criminal investigators, a Cambridge University professor told British lawmakers. TPM chip sets could also lock up data on computers.
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"Share Across Computers" feature stores Web browsing history, Microsoft Office documents, PDF and text files on Google's servers to allow a user to run remote searches from multiple computers and presents a lucrative target to malicious
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Google Inc. and eBay Inc.'s Skype are investing in a startup that plans to help hotspot owners charge for Wi-Fi access, a plan that could face significant opposition from Internet service providers.
