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By now, you're probably familiar with the scenario: A major retailer or private institution is hit with a hack that compromises the stored data of thousands of individuals. Names, debit and credit cards, and Social Security numbers are up for grabs to the highest bidder The breached institution offers credit monitoring to the affected individuals, ...

When Dave Asiala, Dow Chemical's sharedservices IT director, is talking about his company'sRFID (radio frequency identification) initiatives and wants listeners to have an "Aha" moment, he tells them about Dow AgroSciences' use ofRFID tags in its in-ground Sentricon Termite ColonyElimination System "Essentially these are bait traps that areundergro...

Following Wednesday's announcement of the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) by a group of 10 vendors, Unisys said it would join the nonprofit consortium The OSA, which was announced at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit in New York, is dedicated to promoting comprehensive open source business solutions. In joining, Unisys becomes the ...

The home networking industry is experiencing rapid maturation, and service providers are likely to take the lead in deploying many of the next-generation connectivity solutions with an emphasis on enhanced multimedia experiences Also, the use of a home network largely as a broadband-sharing mechanism is just the first of several stages in the evolu...

With the PC graphics market flatlining, AMD announced on Tuesday that it has developed a new outlet for its graphics core technologies. The new enterprise will focus on the development and licensing of "leading-edge graphics core technologies" to semiconductor manufacturers in the handheld industry The new venture stems from the company's commitmen...

In a move that underscores the shift in classified advertising revenue from print to the Internet,The New York Times Co. on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance with Monster Worldwide to create cobranded job sites The deal calls for the two companies to create Web sites for 19 newspapers owned by The New York Times Co., including The New York T...

Relentless attempts by those determined to undermine the copy-protection technology used on HD DVD movies continue to yield successes The newest discovery, revealed on the Doom9 Forum by someone with the screen name "Arnezami," involves the location of the "processing key" vital to the high-definition disc antipiracy system. This could give compute...

IBM has unveiled its latest microprocessor advance, which promises to use a new on-chip dynamic memory technology to significantly increase chip processing performance. The chip could go into production as early as 2008 In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Wednesday in San Francisco, IBM detailed its new ...

Microsoft is offering new business intelligence (BI) features for its Dynamics CRM product. It can be downloaded for free from CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project-hosting Web site, and the Microsoft CRM Sandbox, a GotDotNet project created for Microsoft CRM users Called "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Analytics Foundation," these tools include busine...

Last year, the average click fraud rate of pay-per-click advertisements appearing on search engine content networks rose to 19.2 percent for the last quarter of 2006, the highest yet, according to Tom Cuthbert, CEO of Click Forensics As detailed in Part 1 of this series, Internet advertisers and security pros are seeing increases in click fraud act...

Sun Microsystems, Secunia, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and other security agencies have issued alerts for a somewhat oxymoronic telnet vulnerability in the Sun Solaris 10 operating system The vulnerability is oxymoronic because, while it's possible for a hacker to gain potentially devastating access to a system, the administ...

Handheld computers have simplified many activities. Individuals can surf the Web, text message their friends, buy a new pair of pants, and, increasingly, try to hit the jackpot in the lottery Market research firm Juniper Research expects the worldwide mobile gambling market to grow from US$1.35 billion in 2006 to $16.6 billion by 2011 -- and the in...

Time Warner was finally able to complete the spin-off of its cable division Tuesday, a move that investors have long banked on as a way for the media giant to focus on growing its TV, print, movie and online businesses Time Warner Cable became a standalone public company after a judge put a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan for Adelphia Com...

To outsiders, it may often seem that video gamers live in a world of their own. That perception will soon come closer to reality following the announcement Monday that Richard Branson's Virgin Games division has partnered with Game Domain International (GDI) to form a new PC game download service, "A World Of My Own" (AWOMO) The service, set to deb...

Yahoo on Monday began integrating its popular Web-based e-mail service with its instant messaging platform, a process that will take several months to complete In doing so, Yahoo is hardly breaking ground. More than a year ago, Google unveiled Google Talk, an application that allows Gmail users to simultaneously chat with, and telephone, other Gmai...

The FBI loses between three and four of its laptop computers every month, as well as the same number of weapons, according to a recent report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General Over the last 44 months, 160 FBI laptops were reported lost or stolen -- some containing potentially sensitive information -- along with 160 weapons....

Google suffered a legal setback Tuesday as a Belgian court ruled that the search giant violated copyright law by publishing portions of a newspaper's stories on Google News without prior authorization In a closely watched case that has moved in stops and starts since last summer, a higher court upheld an earlier ruling requiring Google to remove sn...

Just in time for the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, McAfee has released new research that points to a recent increase in mobile malware attacks Nearly half of the mobile operators who have been the recipients of mobile malware experienced an attack within the last three months, according to the report....

Hewlett-Packard is taking a new approach to smartphones with the launch of a slim new handset with 3G Internet connectivity, moving away from the clunky styling of its previous series of powerful PDA (personal digital assistant) phones The iPaq 500 smartphone, unveiled this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, will run on the new Wind...

Researchers at Intel unveiled an experimental 80-core microchip Monday at the International Solid States Circuit Conference in San Francisco. Known as a "Teraflop research chip," it is the first programmable microprocessor capable of delivering performance formerly associated only with supercomputers, according to Intel If successful, Intel's resea...