10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World
Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy
Sophisticated search engines such as Google are being used to legally seek out and uncover confidential information and documents--credit card numbers, spreadsheets, Social Security numbers, etc.--and Computer Sciences researcher Johnny Long reports than "tens of thousands" of Web sites are ...
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Chip That Speaks Languages of Asia Levels Playing Field
A breakthrough in microchip technology could significantly lower the cost of PCs in China and help remove Asia's dependence on Western high-tech. Culturecom Holdings researcher Chu Bong-foo has developed a chip that is responsive to the myriad characters of Chinese and other Asian languages. ...
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Securing Electronic Voting
A recent review of Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting machines commissioned from Raba Technologies by the Maryland legislature indicates that the systems' software suffers from vulnerabilities that would allow votes to be manipulated. The researchers reported that they altered voting ...
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MIT Student Dances with Robots
MIT graduate student Sommer Gentry is investigating how dancing partners communicate haptically (through movement) to perform coordinated actions, and the insights she is drawing from her experiments could be applied to human-robot collaboration. She says that robotic surgical assistants ...
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Smart Switching Could Solve Communication Tangle
The Mercury system currently under development at IBM could enable people to seamlessly switch between communications modes without interrupting the flow of discussion, using a combination of location-aware and context-aware methods. Mercury was devised by IBM's Hui Lei and the University of ...
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Software Innovation Is Dead
Jonathan Love, a computing student at Imperial College, London, claims that software innovation is dead, arguing that software developers are no longer motivated to pursue innovative projects. He reports that security software has experienced the largest amount of growth in the last several years, ...
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False Hope for Stopping Spam
Legislative attempts to control spam, such as the recently passed CAN-SPAM Act, are unlikely to significantly impede the deluge of junk email, partly because the amount of spam originating outside the United States is growing. Anti-spam advocates gathered at MIT's Spam Conference in January ...
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Official Urges Strengthening of Anti-Terrorism Strategies
The Bush administration needs to strengthen its plans for cybersecurity, data collection, and related fields as it works to fight terrorism, says Randall Yim, General Accounting Office managing director of homeland security and justice issues. "We're moving to the implementation stage, ...
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Voice XML 2.0 Nears Final W3C Standard
The Voice XML 2.0 specification took the next-to-last step towards becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard with its publication as a Proposed Recommendation by the W3C. The consortium declared that the Voice XML standard will provide access to Web-based services to an ...
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The Net: Safety, Blogs and Protocols
Uncertainty abounds when the topic is the immediate future of the Internet, and while the subject is debated regularly on email lists, Web sites, and discussion groups, corporations and individuals will have a hand in shaping the technology. Hackers have stepped up their attacks, prompting concerns ...
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Why 802.11 Is Underhyped
People have failed to recognize the significance of the 802.11 communications standard, considering the impact Wi-Fi will have on the wireless communications industry, writes Benchmark Capital's J. William Gurley. Although some vendors are pushing competing technologies, 802.11b ...
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Tackling the Secure Web Mail Challenge
The secure Web mail technology sector is trending toward appliances that serve other email infrastructure security purposes besides Web mail protection, but they require some knowledge of how to handle Web mail security, writes information security professional Keith Pasley. Web-based ...
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Apple Continues Safari for Panther Users
Apple has rolled out Safari version 1.2, an upgrade to its Safari platform whose features include built-in Google search; a new technique for naming, organizing, and presenting bookmarks; tabbed browsing; a SnapBack tool that allows users to return to search results instantaneously; and automatic ...
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Storage Reality Check--Open Systems Standardization
Open systems storage lags behind the standards compliance and interoperability expectations of open systems networking, and catching up may ultimately prove impossible. To appease customers' desire to retain vendor value-added features and establish interoperability, the open ...
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Senator Calls for Mandatory Reporting of Viruses
There is a flaw in the Homeland Security Department's virus alert system, according to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who contends that the announcement of the email alert system last month by the agency's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) was a challenge to hackers to mimic the ...
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Beating a Path to the Datacenter
Linux creator Linus Torvalds expects the recently released Linux v2.6 kernel to be a significant driver of Linux's migration into the corporate datacenter. "The greatest impact is really how we've extended the reach of the kernel; both up through scalability to enterprise hardware, and down to ...
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SIP Rollouts Hit Variety of Snags
The emerging Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard is designed to facilitate real-time multimedia communications on the Internet, but unanticipated interoperability problems are holding up the rollout of commercial Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. These problems ...
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10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World
Yuqing Gao of IBM's Watson Research Center has set the ambitious goal of developing universal translation software that uses semantic analysis in which meaning is extrapolated from phrases in one language and converted into any other language; the progress toward universal translation is being ...
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