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The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would put intelligence efforts at risk Permitting the case -...

The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would put intelligence efforts at risk Permitting the case -...

The Bush administration is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit filed by consumers and privacy advocates against AT&T for its role in a program that enables eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, saying allowing the case to proceed would put intelligence efforts at risk Permitting the case -...

The competitive environment that characterizes today's broadband and value-added services landscape should certainly grow a variety of digital lifestyle products and services, including home networking. Consumers are also primary beneficiaries of increased competition among carriers Case studies reveal that when at least two service providers on re...

From all indications, the Software as a Service (SaaS) model of developing and distributing applications is gaining traction and is poised for a phase of rapid growth, whether it be in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) or large-scale enterprises Estimated worldwide revenue for on-demand CRM applications increased 38.5 percent year-over-year ...

Open source applications have come into their own. For some time, open source programmers held much the same reputation as shareware authors. They were little more than experimenters and programming geeks who chose the alternate code-writing route because they could not or did not want to compete in the real software industry of commercial programming...

With the continued increase in Web-based communication in the form of Web applications, social networking sites, wikis, blogs and podcasts, new security risks are rising throughout the enterprise. Organizations must take steps to strengthen their defenses in a Web 2.0 world As Web 2.0 continues to offer new and exciting ways to collaborate more in...

Electronic Arts (EA) appears to have scored a touchdown with its "Madden NFL '08," the latest iteration of the 18-year-old video game franchise that hit store shelves Tuesday. Reviewers have generally lauded "'08" as a marked improvement over the last few editions of the game, but some give an edge to gameplay on the version available for Microsoft's Xbox 360 over that of Sony's Playstation 3 (PS3)...

In the race for message storage space among Web-based e-mail providers, Microsoft's Hotmail has just leapfrogged Google's Gmail Customers with a free Hotmail account now will have 5 GB of storage; those with a paid account will have 10 GB, according to a posting on the Microsoft Live Hotmail community blog by Ellie Powers-Boyle, program manager....

Anonymous Wikipedia editors who seek to alter articles for less-than-honorable purposes can no longer hide behind their cloak of anonymity: A new scanner tool now makes it relatively easy to figure out where they came from WikiScanner, developed by California Institute of Technology graduate student Virgil Griffith, traces the IP addresses that get...

Microsoft has fixed six critical and three important desktop application vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday release Patches for flaws that directly affect desktop application users have been showing up more frequently in Patch Tuesday releases over the last eight to ten months, noted Amol Sarwate, manager of the vulnerability research la...

Satellite TV provider DirecTV is making a move on the high-speed broadband over powerline (BPL) market. The company announced a wholesale distribution agreement with BPL provider Current Group Wednesday. In addition to letting DirecTV sell Current's broadband services, the agreement also lets DirecTV resell VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services...

Application infrastructure firm Citrix will buy open source virtualization company XenSource for US$500 million, a deal announced just hours after another virtualization firm made a dazzling debut on Wall Street Citrix will pay a combination of cash and stock for Palo Alto, Calif.-based XenSource, a move that will enable it to enter the fast-growin...

Portable hard disk drives aren't the sexiest computer peripherals in the world. They're pretty much a small box with an LED or two on them Most disk makers have been content staying inside that box when they design their drives, but not SimpleTech....

If you're looking for a credit card and a pleasant experience on the Web, the place to go is Capital One -- at least, according to Web site evaluation firm Change Sciences Group That's because when it comes to credit card cyber-stops, the "What's in your wallet?" folks have created a site that's easier to use, more informative and more persuasive t...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive andessential to business growth and operational productivity. This new dependency onmessaging has created a whole new spectrum of major risks, vulnerabilities andrequirements for companies of all sizes In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Postini's President and CEO Quentin ...

I'd like to continue on the idea of modernizing our sales processes. Part of this modernization has been the focus on de-spreadsheeting selling. As we all know it started with sales force automation, or SFA, but the trend is alive and well and, if anything, gaining momentum It's hard to believe that not that long ago selling was managed out of a s...

The face of the Internet is rapidly changing. For instance, Web maps are no longer about finding yourhouse online. A few years ago, map-making power remained in the hands of specialists. Today, map-making power is within everyone's grasp In the past two years, Web giants like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have created tools that let anyone with acces...

After an initial stumble -- perhaps related to the now-infamous YouTube snowman -- most of the Republican presidential candidates will be answering video questions posed by American YouTube users in a debate similar to one their Democratic Party counterparts participated in last month. CNN, YouTube and the Republican Party of Florida have announced they will hold their Republican debate on Nov. 28...

Clunky old batteries may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new energy-storage device that looks and feels like a scrap of paper Developed by a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the nanoengineered battery is 90 percent cellulose, made up of the same plant cells used in nearly every type of paper. Infused in that pa...