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The U.S. government has finalized plans to implant RFID tags in all newly issued or renewed passports beginning October 2006. The State Department issued new regulations yesterday, despite concerns from privacy advocates that the chips will pose threats on several different fronts, including the ability to track citizens' movements via the chip in their passports...

Google is working on an online listing-collection site that could move it into competition with sites such as Craigslist as well as online person-to-person retail communities such as eBay and also provide content for its various search tools Speculation about a product listing service hit a fever pitch when a site called Google Base appeared briefl...

Hong Kong officials have successfully prosecuted a BitTorrent user for sharing three copyrighted movies on the file-sharing network Chan Nai-Ming, 38, was arrested in January by the Hong Kong Customs Services and will be sentenced Nov. 7. He faces up to four years in jail and a fine of up to about US$6,400. Chan had pleaded not guilty to copyright ...

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still subject to a final vote of approval from its Board o...

The fastest-growing technology companies in North America are still growing at a rapid rate, but a maturation of tech sub-industries and health of the bigger players has apparently slowed the growth rate, according to the latest Fast 500 Ranking from Deloitte & Touche Naming mostly software and semiconductor companies in the top slots, Deloitte cro...

Joining forces in a bid to usher in a new era of ultra-convenient payment systems, Japanese credit cards companies have banded together with wireless phone companies to form a "mobile wallet" alliance JCB Co., the largest credit card underwriter in Japan, and others joined with mobile operators such as KDDI Corp. and Vodafone to build out infrastru...

Intel this week signaled changes and delays in its road map for its Xeon and Itanium processors, stirring some speculation that rival AMD is forcing the server chip adjustments with its own success in the space Industry analysts, however, said the alterations are too long term to have much impact, and are likely a strategy Intel will further explai...

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still subject to a final vote of approval from its Board o...

Yahoo continued to raise the ante for content portals on the Net with the launch yesterday of a new original multimedia series by the pasha of adventure travel Richard Bangs Bangs' initial package for the content aggregator chronicles a climb of the Eiger by John Harlin III whose father died scaling the mountain 40 years ago....

No type of management position has undergone more profound changes over the last ten years than that of client relations managers. Changes are being driven by economic globalization, competitive pressures and the information technology (IT) revolution. Changes in the roles of client relations managers parallel changes in the importance of these positions, particularly in business-to-business environments...

The Recording Industry Association of America may be feeding judges inaccurate technical "evidence" which is being believed as though it comes from a reliable source, according to Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who's representing victims being sued by the Big Four music cartel-owned organization "There's a crisis in this country with the RIAA's r...

Cellular data services have spawned an array of acronyms, including W-CDMA, WiFi, WiMax, and CDMA2000 1x EvDO. For those enamored by abbreviations, one more is about to emerge -- WiBro -- which stands for wireless broadband South Korean government officials, network equipment companies, and cellular network suppliers devised this subset of the WiMa...

Universities and digital freedom organizations are filing appeals to the Federal Communications Commission's call for phone-system wiretapping on the Internet, complaining of the expense of compliance and negative effect on innovation A requirement that universities, carriers and other Internet service companies build spying capabilities into their...

Microsoft has abandoned a plan that would have excluded rival media players from being included on devices that were outfitted with the Windows Media Player Microsoft had proposed that device makers that included a CD with the Windows Media Player with their devices not be allowed to include any competing software. In other words, devices that want...

IBM says it is pleased with the better-than-expected results from its Power.org effort, which seeks to open some of the silicon hardware of the PowerPC processor to developers similar to how developer communities collaborate on software in the open-source world Pointing to growing membership, improvement and deployment of the Power technology, Big ...

Last week was another interesting week. So far, this month the biggest announcements have largely been about Apple. As expected, Apple refreshed some of its product offerings. This should be the last significant release of many of these products before the Intel-based replacements start to arrive in about six to nine months While PowerBooks are be...

A number of non-profit alliances are actively promoting home networking technologies, perhaps providing the momentum to make the "smart home" a reality in the coming years, experts tell TechNewsWorld The allied industry groups come from a number of fields, and include the Continental Automated Building Association, the Internet Home Alliance, the H...

The third quarter results posted yesterday by Google had even reserved analysts reaching for new adjectives to describe the seven-fold increase in profits, the nearly doubling of revenue and the fact that Google's own Web site is driving a growing amount of advertising income for the company "These results are absolutely staggering," former Interne...

Information management and storage vendor EMC yesterday announced a definitive agreement to acquire a document imaging technology provider EMC will purchase Captiva Software for US$22.25 per share in cash, or approximately $275 million net of Captiva's cash balance....

The former chief executive officer of online marketing firm Intermix has agreed to give up profits allegedly made through the distribution of spyware as part of a settlement with the state of New York New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Brad Greenspan, the founder and former CEO of Intermix Media, will pay US$750,000 in penalties and...