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From New York Times: Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age and heralded an explosion of consumer electronics products in the last 50 years, from personal computers to cellphones, died Monday in Dallas. He was 81. His death, after a brief battle with cancer, …
From CNN: What comes to mind when you think of wireless Web surfing? It may not be security, or lack of it. There are nearly 30,000 public wireless “hot spots” in the United States at places such as parks and cafes, but there’s more to consider than just where to log on. The convenience comes …
From TechRepublic: Companies will not have to worry about a large-scale virus outbreak targeting their “smart” cell phones for another 18 months, security experts predicted. However, after that, even antivirus software is unlikely to help, Gartner analysts John Pescatore and John Girard wrote in a research paper published earlier this month. The paper looks at …
From PCWorld.com: The killing of a Taiwanese teenager in a brutal knife attack at an Internet cafe over a dispute involving the Blade&Sword Online computer game has raised concerns over violence on the normally tranquil Pacific island. “(The assailant) didn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy,” lamented the Apple Daily, which splashed a graphic …
From Yahoo! News (Reuters): he National Football League said on Monday that it has been in discussions with a number of large U.S. wireless providers about delivering video clips of game highlights to mobile phones. It is close to clinching a five-year deal with Sprint with an initial value of $200 million and the potential …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft has begun soliciting testers for OneCare Live, the company’s subscription antivirus and anti-spyware service. In an online posting seeking people to try out the service, Microsoft said that it plans to start testing this summer.
From MSNBC: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has reportedly joined the high-tech revolution and purchased the world’s hottest new gadget — an Apple iPod. According to the United Kingdom’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, The Sun, the 79-year-old British monarch is now the owner of a 6GB silver iPod Mini, purchased by a staffer for £169 ($309). While …
From TechRepublic: Four major PC makers have no plans to sell the media-player-free version of Windows, which Microsoft was ordered to offer by Europe’s competition commissioner. Microsoft will make an updated version of Window XP N available on Wednesday, but none of the computer manufacturers that ZDNet UK spoke to are considering preinstalling it on …
From E-commerce Times: “There is a monster data market of information from sources that aren’t supposed to have that information,” says Jeff Moss, president of Black Hat, a Seattle-based computer security training and conference firm. “Inside employees who are misbehaving are very hard to stop,” he says. “It’s very frustrating.” In the recent cases of …
From MSNBC (Reuters): Internet “zombie” attacks that attempt to knock computer systems offline are more likely to come from users of America Online than any other source, according to a report released by a security company on Tuesday. AOL and other large Internet service providers serve as launching pads for most “denial of service” attacks, …