Which Web Services Protocol?
"EFF Moves to Block Certification of e-Voting Systems"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking to overturn the recent certifications of e-voting machines in North Carolina, claiming that state officials did not uphold their legal obligations in approving them. The EFF filed the complaint on behalf of a voter advocacy group, urging the ...
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"Tech Development a French Resolution"
France is converting its southern coast into a technology hub, a sort of Silicon Valley on the Mediterranean, where hundreds of companies have joined Texas Instruments and Alcatel and set up sprawling corporate campuses. This latest initiative aims to vault the nation into a position ...
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"U.S. IT Workers Stressed Out"
IT workers are more stressed out about their jobs than other workers, according to new research from ISR, an employee research and consulting firm. Job stress is cited as a problem for 51 percent of U.S. IT workers compared with 41 percent of the overall workforce, and about 53 percent of ...
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"'Data-in, Data-out' Signals Quantum Breakthrough"
Two research groups have independently demonstrated a technique for transferring quantum data between atoms and photons that could produce impenetrable, lightning-quick computers and international communication networks. Laser pulses pull quantum data from a constellation of rubidium ...
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"Men Are From Mars, Robots Are From Mitsubishi"
As Carnegie Mellon roboticist Daniel Wilson outlines in his book, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," the field of robotics has taken off in recent years, with researchers around the world developing robotic applications to do everything from vacuuming to exploring space alongside man. Several ...
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"Power Could Cost More Than Servers, Google Warns"
The cost of powering servers could eventually exceed the initial price of the equipment unless the performance-per-watt improves, Google's Luiz Barroso warned in research recently detailed in ACM Queue. "The possibility of computer equipment power consumption spiraling out of ...
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"Port Scans May Not Always Signal Attacks, Research Indicates"
A recent two-month study of quantitative attack data by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering shows port scans precede attacks only about 5 percent of the time, with more than half of all attacks not preceded by a scan of any kind, says Michel Cukier, Center for ...
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"Cornell's Jon Kleinberg"
Cornell University computer science professor Jon Kleinberg, a member of the IBM Almaden Research Center's Visiting Faculty Program, sees many of the most stimulating areas in science and technology as multidisciplinary in nature rather than falling into "traditional" science and engineering ...
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"Once-Brotherly Image Turns Big Brotherly"
Google's expansion abroad and into fields such as classified ads, book publishing, video, Wi-Fi, and telecommunications threatens its once unblemished image and could force government regulation that in the past has slowed the growth of so many giants. "Google could easily become the ...
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"Intel Working on Rootkit Detection Techniques"
Intel is developing a notification tool for PC users to alert them to an inadvertent download of a rootkit, such as the XCP vulnerability contained in millions of CDs recently distributed by Sony. At a recent open house, Intel outlined its vision of computers that are more in touch with their ...
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"European Thought Leaders Talk Innovation"
A diverse group of researchers, entrepreneurs, and lawmakers gathered in Brussels for Microsoft's European Research and Innovation Day to demonstrate and discuss the latest research and inventions that will define the future of technology. Microsoft's Rick Rashid spoke on the benefit ...
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"Welcome to the New World of Digital Cinema"
The WORLDSCREEN consortium is developing data compression techniques to handle the vast quantities of information needed to produce high-quality digital cinema. The WORLDSCREEN researchers have employed layered scheme compression (LSC) algorithms to effectively manage workflows and data ...
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"Bridge Gender Gap to Avert Skills Crisis, Warn Top IT Women"
U.K. businesses are missing out on an opportunity to address the coming IT skills shortage by not closing the gender gap, according to female professionals participating in a recent industry debate. Sandra Smith, head of IS at Toshiba, said businesses should expect the operation of IT ...
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"The Root of the Problem"
SonyBMG Music Entertainment left millions of computers vulnerable to virus writers by including the digital rights management (DRM) application Extended Copy Protection (XCP) on its CDs. The company saw the "rootkit" software as an opportunity to crack down on file-sharing, but the ...
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"W3C Looks at Next-Gen Voice Technologies"
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has settled on requirements for VoiceXML 3.0, and the standard-setting group for the Internet now plans to focus on drafting specifications on voice identification verification for the next-generation technology. VoiceXML enables users to issue commands ...
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"Getting Real"
DARPA's Real-World Reasoning Project demonstrated that with the steady addition of variables to a problem the number of possible outcomes increases exponentially, forever outpacing a computer's ability to conduct an exhaustive analysis. But the Real Project did uncover some shortcuts, ...
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"What's Next in Software"
It is a time of transition for many software development tools and technologies, according to this year's InfoWorld Programming Research Report. Results from a sample of approximately 300 developers indicate increased adoption of Web services, service-oriented architecture, and open ...
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"Which Web Services Protocol?"
Network Technology Research Group President Eric A. Hall and Jabber Software Foundation executive director Peter Saint-Andre argue the advantages and disadvantages of XMPP and HTTP in a debate over which transfer protocol is the most sensible option for Web services. ...
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