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Seeking to retain its edge in the fiercely competitive search engine world by expanding its pool of engineering talent, Google has said it plans to open a research and development facility in India next year. The company has settled on Bangalore, a city often referred to as India's Silicon Valley, as the location for its first non-sales office out...

The National Football League and e-commerce have a lot in common. Sure, one has a lot more 300-pound linemen and guys who can run 40 yards in less than five seconds, but in both cases, it almost always comes down to the last five weeks of the year Sure, each NFL team plays 16 games, and e-commerce stores are open for business 24/7/365. But, in foot...

In the immortal words of philosopher and cultural critic George Santayana, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' famous play A Christmas Carol, likely would have agreed with this sentiment In a similar vein, as the holiday season progresses and the prospect of an econom...

In the immortal words of philosopher and cultural critic George Santayana, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' famous play A Christmas Carol, likely would have agreed with this sentiment In a similar vein, as the holiday season progresses and the prospect of an econom...

In the immortal words of philosopher and cultural critic George Santayana, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' famous play A Christmas Carol, likely would have agreed with this sentiment In a similar vein, as the holiday season progresses and the prospect of an econom...

At the same time that a judge's call for evidence sent SCO Group's stock price lower, the Lindon, Utah-based company was taking a hit on its Web site, against which attackers launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that also knocked some of the company's internal operations offline SCO, hit by a similar Web site attack earlier this summer, has be...

Microsoft's new monthly-patching policy is getting put to the test as several vulnerabilities, such as another Internet Explorer hole disclosed this week, present attackers with opportunity The latest IE hole -- announced by Secunia, the same Danish security company that disclosed a separate, critical hole in Internet Explorer late last month -- co...

Intel has said it will combine two unprofitable business groups in its communications industry segment in a bid to repair one of the few glaring flaws in the company's performance in recent quarters. Specifically, the chipmaker plans to meld its wireless communications business with the Intel Communications Group. The move is intended to help Inte...

A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management (DRM) on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ARM, ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Universal Music Group and VeriSign The group -- called the Content Reference Forum (CRF) -- has posted specificati...

Outsourcing may be a bane to many U.S. technology, finance and manufacturing employees, but it has proved a boon -- and a catalyst for cultural change -- to nations like India that are reaping the benefits of this trend It is fortunate that a bright side for employees exists, because the outsourcing tide seems unstoppable. By 2015, more than 472,00...

The holidays are a time of quiet reflection and generosity, a season of givingand helping one's fellow man. Of course, there is another facet of the holidayseason, too: All of those shiny gadgets displayed in store windows andpictured on Web sites highlight the attraction of upgrading to thelatest and greatest technology Although visions of Dells a...

With a goal of connecting all villages, schools, hospitals and governments by 2015 to put half the world's people within reach of information and communication technology (ICT), the U.N. opened the first-ever global summit on information in Geneva, Switzerland this week International issues such as socioeconomic divisions, censorship and governance...

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee confirmed this week the concerns of security experts and Washington insiders by grading most federal agencies with a D or F in terms of IT security There was improvement from last year's federal computer-security progress report as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and National Science Foundation each ea...

In a sign of the growing popularity of hosted e-business, Buy.com subsidiary BuyServices has announced it will manage hosted Web sites for several MTV Networks properties, including MTV, VH1 and CMT BuyServices will provide back-end and front-end e-commerce capabilities, distribution, payment and customer support. Shoppers will be able to browse a ...

As part of an ongoing effort to trim costs, America Online has laid off 350 workers in its California offices and has offered another 100 the choice to relocate to the East Coast or be fired. AOL said most of the affected employees work in software creation for the core online service product in shops in San Diego, San Francisco and Mountain View,...

After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demo area to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. I've seen prerendered graphics look as good as the Dusk and Vulcan demos before, but never have I seen anything quite like these demos in real-time 3D. They clearly demonstrate the power of Nvidia's GPUs to handle all kinds of cutting-edge effects.

Rather than move for an all-out frontal assault, voice over IP (VoIP) service providers are flanking the traditional telecommunications companies. In building their businesses, the VoIP providers -- which develop products that let customers make telephone calls over the Internet -- are not trying to convince every business and consumer that their services are best for every purpose, but instead are focusing on select groups, such as international customers and calling-card users, to gain market traction...

Since the unveiling of its Unix-based OS X operating system, Apple has been releasing "point upgrades" about once per year, charging $129 for each one -- a pretty stiff fee for staying current. This in itself might not be so bad, except that in the process of speeding development through the pipeline to grab extra revenue, Apple seems to have lost the handle on quality control with its latest upgrade, 10.3, or Panther...

Concerns about computer viruses and worms are spreading beyond the PC arena as embedded software and systems vulnerable to attack are introducing risk to several unique technology sectors, including automatic teller machines (ATMs), emergency response systems and even automobiles ATM maker Diebold recently confirmed that this year's Nachi worm infe...

Although there is agreement that IT spending will increase in 2004, views vary on whether it will be marked by a return to more traditional buying patterns or significant structural changes forced by commodity pricing According to a survey of more than 600 IT decision makers, IT spending confidence has improved substantially from a year ago and eve...