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The Department of Defense will proceed with the creation of a new command to coordinate the day-to-day defense of military, federal government and critical civilian networks from attack, according to numerous press reports The cyberdefense command will be part of the U.S. Strategic Command, a multiservice military operation that is responsible for,...

Taiwan-based HTC, a fast-rising star in the smartphone manufacturing industry, has unveiled its latest model, the Hero, its third offering based on the Android operating system The Hero comes with a new user interface called "Sense" that makes use the device almost intuitive....

Funny thing about economic disasters: They tend to spawn a bevy of new businesses. It's not that a recession is the best time for pie-in-the-sky thinking; rather, it's when pie-in-the-mouth issues become most pressing. "The tantalizing successes of some startups, coupled perhaps with the rise in unemployment, have more people pondering new ideas a...

Events taking place on the streets of Tehran may have an important effect on how social networking rolls out across the rest of the world, and that includes the CRM world. Last week, the media began carrying stories about a "cyber revolution" that may be happening in the Islamic Republic, but those stories fail to account for the whole story -- the yin and yang of social media...

T-Mobile's Tuesday announcement that it will offer a new Android smartphone in August has raised interest in the possibility of greater competition for enterprise adoption The new Android-powered smartphone, the myTouch 3G, will come loaded with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, a 3.5-megapixel camera and a preinstalled 4-GB microSD memory card. However, the...

In today's world, it seems that more of the people I run across do not feel they need -- or, more accurately, don't understand why they need -- a protocol analyzer for their network. In the old days (yes, just a few years back) it seemed that more people understood just how important the analyzer was. For some reason, as networks have become smart...

With the news that its omnipresent-on-the-desktop Flash player will be available in more mobile forms before the end of the year, Adobe is finally following through on its goal of joining the smartphone party -- but the two biggest names in that market are still missing from the invitation list Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry won...

Social networking pioneer MySpace is planning to close at least four offices in overseas markets, as well as eliminate two-thirds of its staff outside the U.S. Specifically, it is going to cut 300 of the 450 jobs that are based in global markets. To be sure, MySpace is feeling the squeeze from the recession. Online advertising dropped sharply this...

In a move that could rock the printing world and set Amazon's Kindle e-reader on its ear, HP announced on Tuesday an all-in-one printer that can connect directly to the Internet The device, the HP Photosmart Premium, will let users download content and make purchases from the Internet. Partners for content on delivery include USA Today; Google; and...

In what's being hailed as a milestone moment, Intel and Nokia announced Tuesday that they will work together on developing new mobile chipset technologies, as well as new devices to use them What, exactly, those devices might be or when they might find their way into consumers' hands remains unknown. Neither Intel nor Nokia executives wanted to dis...

Since its conception in 1996, Google's search engine has played a key role in redefining not only the role of the Internet, but also the accessibility of the Internet to the end-user. This characteristic can be further exemplified by the company's unofficial slogan "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

"You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!" "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!"...

It wasn't long after the launch of Linden Lab's Second Life back in 2003 that companies and organizations around the globe began to sit up and take notice. The prospect of millions of potential customers -- all flocking to the same destination and congregating there -- is enough to whet the appetite of even the most conservative and change-averse organization, after all...

Is there a difference between quality control and quality assurance? Just night and day. Unfortunately, many companies believe they are the same, when in reality the differences are overwhelming Quality control, or black box testing, is chartered to ensure that the product is going to meet the user's needs -- not just to demonstrate that the progra...

Nortel Networks has agreed to sell its two advanced wireless technology business units to Nokia Siemens for US$650 million. The companies hope to close the sale by Q3 of this year. It is an ignominious end for the telco, which at one time was one of the dominant players in the global marketplace. In January, however, the Toronto-based company file...

Amid questions about consumer enthusiasm for Blu-ray technology, Sony on Monday announced a new notebook computer positioned by the electronics giant as an entry-level Blu-ray player for mobile viewing The VAIO NW notebook series carries an US$880 starting price tag for a Blu-ray equipped model, and comes with a 15.5-inch widescreen display, as wel...

Go wet, young IT man (and woman). Your parched, imperiled planet needs you When it comes to creating a future filled with fresh, drinkable water, information technology professionals have a significant career opportunity in a mega-sized market. The very economic survival of a thirsty, arid Earth -- with the U.S. southwest as a prime example -- dep...

Whether you're identifying with a religious group, a technology group, or some other group, I often wonder if you truly care if the information you receive is false. If you look at how people flock to Web sites that are obviously on the extreme right or left of an issue, or if you watch debates on abortion or gay marriage -- or even whether the sitting president has a clue -- don't you often get the sense that for many, believing they are right and putting down those who disagree is more important than actually being right?...

Google has stepped up its efforts to fight Internet pornography in China, following Beijing's move on Friday to block some Chinese-language results delivered by its search engine "We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problem with our results," Google spokesperson Scott Rubin told TechNewsWorl...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota mom who has been at the center of the RIAA's legal battle against music piracy, has been found liable for illegal file-sharing in the retrial of Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset She now faces a US$1.92 million penalty, or $80,000 for each of 24 songs she made available online through the Kazaa file-sharing networ...