WiMax Hits the Road
"Software Group Enters Fray Over Proposed Piracy Law"
Supporters of a controversial copyright bill that seeks to establish legal liability for anyone who "intentionally aids, abets, induces, counsels or procures" a copyright violation are using an IDC report commissioned by the Business Software Alliance as ammunition. The report pegs the annual ...
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"IT May Help Clean a Polluted Sea, Say Researchers"
NOAA oceanographer Christopher Sabine reported in a recent edition of Science that almost half of all carbon dioxide emitted by the consumption of fossil fuels is being absorbed by the world's oceans, but computer science researchers at the Informatics and Telematics Institute Center for ...
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"Open-Source Is More Than Just Linux"
Experts say open source software is fundamentally changing the computer industry, forcing businesses to rethink strategies and enabling new companies to upset established ones. Technology publisher Tim O'Reilly says companies able to understand and act on this shift will reap the ...
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"Loose Clicks Sink Computers"
Stray signals discharged from an electronic device can unintentionally reveal sensitive data, a phenomenon known as "compromising emanations" that has long been an attractive area of study for civilian computer researchers. In one experiment, Cambridge University computer scientist ...
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"E-Voting Suit Highlights Legal Lag"
Linda Soubirous, who lost a recent election for a seat on California's Riverside County Board of Supervisors, has filed a lawsuit against Riverside Registrar of Voters Mischelle Townsend for allegedly refusing to disclose information pertaining to a recount Soubirous requested when her ...
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"Quantum Crypto Network Debuts"
A collaborative effort between researchers at Harvard University, Boston University, and BBN Technologies has yielded a six-node quantum cryptography network that operates without interruption to facilitate the exchange of secure keys between BBN and Harvard, which are separated by a ...
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"Homeland Security: High-Tech Tool Improves Incident Planning and Response for Emergency Management Officials"
The Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration (GTVC) developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is a collaborative mapping tool designed to aid law enforcement and emergency management officials so they can improve their coordination of event and incident planning and real-time ...
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"Polite Computers Win Users' Hearts and Minds"
Jeng-Yi Tzeng of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan believes that computers would be less intimidating to users if software and operating systems were programmed to respond apologetically to errors. He theorized that people would be more inclined to forgive a courteous computer, and ...
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"IBM Tool Has an Eye for the Blind"
Available for download on IBM's alphaWorks emerging technologies Web site is aDesigner, a 4.6 MB Java-based application that shows how a site appears and sounds to visually impaired users. ADesigner, which was developed in the IBM Tokyo Research Lab, assesses sites on their colors and font ...
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"The Internet Funnel"
The automatic collection of information from multiple Web sites based on users' interests is the principle behind RSS (really simple syndication), an information management tool whose use is spreading rapidly. RSS alerts people to the most recent data about subjects they have chosen and sends it ...
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"Copyright Scheme Could Fuel Transition to High-Definition Systems"
Disney, IBM, Intel, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, and AOL Time Warner have announced that they are developing a copyright protection system for high-definition DVDs that is stronger and more flexible than the current DVD copy protection scheme. A year-long effort, the Advanced Access ...
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"IT Workers Stay Put in Less-Promising Careers"
The unemployment rate for information technology professionals remains the same as last year, at 3 percent, even though the industry is said to be losing jobs to outsourcing, reveals a new report by InformationWeek Research. The 2004 National IT Salary Survey shows that the majority of IT ...
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"Radio Sans Frontieres"
Software defined radio (SDR) that can autonomously select optimal radio signals based on surrounding conditions and frequency activity promises to eliminate interference and redefine ownership and regulation of airwaves, much to the chagrin of license holders. SDR requires the presence of an ...
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"Analysis Tools Aren't Static"
Code analysis tools have come a long way since the first code analyzers were developed, and today are used for rapid technology adoption, the code acceptance process (particularly for enterprises that are outsourcing software development), corporate acquisitions, and new software product ...
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"Ready to Buy a Home Robot?"
Future Horizons reports that the electronics industry is nearing a watershed in which labor-saving domestic robot devices will explode and proliferate to the tune of $59.3 billion and 55.5 million units in the world by the end of the decade. Entertainment robots such as Wow Wee's ...
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"Exploiting Software: The Achilles' Heel of CyberDefense"
Analyzing real software attacks and understanding how they occur is the only true way to devise effective countermeasures. Software has become a tool for modern espionage, and attacks can range from exploitation of existing vulnerabilities (design flaws, programming bugs, etc.) to the ...
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"WiMax Hits the Road"
WiMax marks the advent of next-generation wireless data technologies that are unencumbered by the limited range and data orientation of wireless local area networks, and has the added advantage of a flexible infrastructure that meets the needs of both fixed and mobile users ...
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