Monthly Archives: January 2006
W3C Taps Steven Bratt as Its First CEO
The World Wide Web Consortium has created the position of CEO and named Steven Bratt to the post, effective Jan. 20.Bratt held the position...
The Neverending BlackBerry Story
As they nervously fiddle with their BlackBerrys, users are now looking over their shoulders as a judge gets ready to decide the fate of...
GPLs DRM Provisions Worry Businesses
The first draft discussion document for the next version of the GNU General Public License has only just been released, but some businesses already...
Hot Spots Blooming All Over the Globe
The number of worldwide Wi-Fi hot spots has surpassed the 100,000 mark, according to the latest numbers from JiWire, which specializes in hot-spot tracking.According...
Lost Without a BlackBerry?
The Research in Motion and NTP patent dispute continues its meandering path toward a resolution as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an...
AMD Rises on Opteron
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Advanced Micro Devices, buoyed by the success of its...
Intel Drops 32-Bit Support in Montecito
Intel is removing the hardware circuitry in the upcoming next-generation Itanium 2 chip that lets users run 32-bit applications on the 64-bit processor, leaving...
E-Mail Worm Could Wreak Havoc
A high-powered group of security volunteers is raising an "urgent alert" for a potentially destructive e-mail worm crawling through in-boxes, warning that the worms...
Identity Theft Ranks High in FTC Complaints
Among the many ways Americans see themselves getting swindled these days, identity theft ranks first.Of nearly 700,000 grievances lodged with the Federal Trade Commission...
IBM Predicts 2006 Attack, Threat Trends
IBM recorded more than 1 billion suspicious computer security events last year, despite a leveling off in the amount of spam e-mail and a...