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Lord of the Rings (LoTR) fans now have the opportunity to cast themselves as their favorite Hobbit, Elf, Dwarf or Man. Game software makers Turbine and Midway announced Tuesday the release of "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (LoTRO)." The game is the first massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's popular tri...

We're all inundated with information every day, and we all have our strategies for dealing with that flood. A common tactic adopted by many of us is making lists. The problem with lists, though, is that they can be misplaced That problem prompted two serial entrepreneurs, Joe Bergeron and Josh Weinstein, to ponder why there was a glaring dearth of ...

How do you suppose a professor of computer science and engineering might use Web 2.0 tools? Assisting students to manage an intramural sports league online is probably not the first thing that would come to mind. That, though, is exactly what Yannis Papakonstantinou, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, does He recently helped t...

How do SOA (service-oriented architecture) and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation?...

The data drip is here. Computer security experts are worried that corporate data leaking from networks onto small mobile storage devices will worsen into a flood of stolen customer and company information Over half of all information leaks travel to personal data storage devices such as USB drives, MP3 players and PDAs, according to recent industry...

IBM released open beta software Monday that enables x86 Linux applications to run on IBM's System p servers The IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to allow some 2,800 Linux applications to run on the System p Unix platform without code modifications....

A pair of NASA spacecraft have recorded the first 3-D images of the sun, giving scientists and space weather experts a much-improved ability to monitor and predict solar storms that can disrupt communications satellites, interfere with widely-used GPS systems, and knock out electrical power grids The two spacecraft, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relatio...

In 2006, the U.S. high-tech sector employed 5.8 million people -- up by 146,600, or 3 percent -- according to a widely watched report on the subject fromAeA, a nationwide nonprofit trade association Not since the dot-com heyday in 2000 has the U.S. tech job environment looked so inviting, according to "Cyberstates 2007: A Complete State-by-State Ov...

Shares of IBM powered higher Tuesday after the technology giant said it would pay a larger quarterly dividend to shareholders and move to buy back up to US$15 billion worth of its own stock IBM's board of directors had voted to increase its quarterly cash dividend to 40 cents per share, a 33 percent increase over the 30 cents paid last quarter, the...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

Yahoo has teamed with digital entertainment company Gracenote to provide supposedly official lyrics to hundreds of thousands of popular songs Yahoo said the lyrics, for songs from almost 100 music labels, will be free. The company also stressed that, unlike lyrics widely available at other Web sites, those on Yahoo Music will be the real deal: lega...

Over the last 18 months, how often have you heard rumors that an online music service from Amazon was imminent? Plenty, no doubt, so much so that it seems Amazon has redefined the term "imminent" in much the same way that Google redefined the term "beta." Nevertheless, the rumor has arisen again, reportedly because a major barrier to the launch -- ...

How significant is a Web site to your organization? My impression is that for businesses who have devoted the resources to develop and maintain an effective online presence, its Web site's impact is unprecedented, and for the folks who haven't gone down that path, it's value and profitability are marginal The term "Web 2.0" means different things t...

Martin Carmichael, the chief security officer (CSO) for security software developer McAfee, is responsible for IT security, forensics, risk management, physical security, IT security engineering, and compliance with regulatory controls. He also serves as the chief privacy officer for McAfee His more than 20 years as a security executive at top-leve...

Gadget geeks engaged in the digital equivalent of reading chicken entrails to determine which high-def format the market will ultimately embrace received mixed signals from the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps on Monday, which were promptly rebutted by the opposition First came the news that 70 percent of the high-definition discs purchased by consumers in...

Time Warner Cable has struck a deal with WiFi provider Fon that will let its home-based and business broadband customers turn their Internet connections into public wireless hotspots The move is somewhat evolutionary for American service providers who have traditionally shied away from permitting customers from using their services as public WiFi l...

The 2008 presidential campaigns have already been notable for several "firsts" in their use of technology, and on Monday a new one was added to the list when Yahoo, Slate and The Huffington Post announced they will host the first-ever online-only debates this fall PBS host Charlie Rose will moderate the two debates -- one for the Democratic contend...

Microsoft on Monday gave the European Union's antitrust regulators more information on its code-sharing program. The company also asked regulators for guidance on how much it can charge rivals for access to its Windows Server protocols The software giant was hoping to avoid possible additional fines on top of the nearly US$1 billion in penalties th...