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From the Globe and Mail: After labouring under the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s major sources of spam, Canada has finally fallen off the list of the “Dirty Dozen” nations sending spam. The new list, released Thursday by SophosLabs, a security company based in Lynnfield, Mass., shows that for the first quarter …
From TechRepublic: Computer-related waste remains a local and global problem, despite the progress made over the last few years. More and more PCs are recycled, but some estimates say that 80 percent of the electronic waste slated for recycling in the U.S. is shipped overseas to be taken apart by low-wage workers, according to the …
From MSNBC: Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school’s system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com. The community college has blocked the site in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers. An investigation found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too …
From TechRepublic: The United States is losing its competitive edge in science and technology, and President Bush told Silicon Valley leaders Friday that the country can’t afford to let that happen. Bush was at Cisco Systems headquarters to promote his plan to bolster America’s competitive advantage in technology. This is the same plan that the …
From CNN: The world’s biggest chip maker Intel is investing in Vietnam and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is due to visit this weekend, but the poor Southeast Asian country’s IT industry has a long way to go. Business analysts say that for the second time in a decade an array of foreign industries and services, …
From Baseline Magazine: It happens in minutes. Hackers with bot code break into vulnerable computers, turn them into zombies and launch an assault against your computer systems. And while you scramble to secure your network – and the vital data on it – botmasters sell access to your hacked machines for pennies apiece. Here’s the …
From TechRepublic: Nominees for the 10th annual Webby Awards were announced Tuesday, and the list of potential honorees reads like a who’s who of well-known Web properties. The awards–which have seen the Internet rise, fall and rise again with the birth of Web 2.0–will be presented June 12 at a ceremony in New York City …
From TechWeb: A San Francisco company specializing in automated retail has plans for 10,000 consumer electronics vending machines installed in high-traffic places like airports and hotels in just a few years. Zoom Systems already has 100 units installed, and Zoom chief executive officer Gower Smith hopes the company’s strategy will increase sales of high-end Apple …
From Forbes: The Internet is supposed to be limitless–a boundary-free exchange of digital information and profit. So how can it be running out of real estate? The answer, according to information technology experts, lies in cyberspace’s ever-growing popularity. In theory, each new user who wants to log on needs a new address, as does each …
From CNet News: Podcasts are to bloggers what MySpace sites are to teens: All the cool kids have one. So Forrester probably expected a big reaction with a new report that claims podcasts are not exactly taking the wired world by storm. The research firm’s new study claims that only 1 percent of online households …