Monthly Archives: August 2008
Researchers Outline Security Risks of Social Networking Sites
LAS VEGAS-Sometimes our friends aren't really our friends. Just ask security researchers Nathan Hamiel and Shawn Moyer.Hamiel, senior consultant for Idea Information Security, and...
Shed No Tiers for Broadband Pricing
It's been one week since the Federal Communications Commission bopped Comcast's ears for blocking the peer-to-peer application BitTorrent, ruling that the broadband provider violated...
The Truth (and lies) About Using Twitter
When you test and write about technology for a living, especially if you're focused on emerging technologies, people expect that you are a heavy...
How eWEEK Got Hacked at Black Hat
LAS VEGAS-As some of you may have already read by now, one of our brilliant cyber-minds at eWEEK who will remain nameless (Brian Prince...
Mozilla Aurora: The Browser for the Next Web?
What will the Web look like in 10 years? Will we still be using something similar to current Web browsers or will there be...
Google Adds Frequency Capping, Reporting for Ads
What a week it's been for Google's AdWords crew.One day after launching its Google Insights for Search extension for the Trends utility, the group...
Xirrus Wi-Fi Software Lands on Linux Desktops
By: Eric BrownXirrus, a vendor of Linux-based Wi-Fi arrays, is releasing a version of its Wi-Fi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open-source, widgetlike...
NBC Broadcasts Olympics via Cisco Video Backbone
NBC may have all the cameras, cables, on-air talent and back-scene technicians over in Beijing for the 29th Summer Olympiad, but Cisco Systems and...
Motorola Entices Developers with Tools for Linux Phones
Motorola has released a "public preview" of the first-ever native development tools for unreleased models of its Linux-based mobile phones.MotoDev Studio for Linux 0.3...
Low-Cost Notebooks Propel Intel, Via in Q2
The low-cost notebook market helped Intel and Via Technologies increase their share of the worldwide x86 microprocessor market in the second quarter of 2008,...