Cade Metz

Why should you have a home network? How should you plan it? PC Magazine looks at these questions from several angles, including security in their Home Networking 101.

The world is going wireless. According to a new report from In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Arizona research firm, 6.8 million 802.11b wireless devices were sold for home use in 2002, a 160 percent increase over the previous year. Business shipments, the firm says, rose to 11.6 million units, a 65 percent increase. “Volumes are much higher […]

Every year, Chris Hoofnagle organizes the US Big Brother Awards under the auspices of a public interest group called Privacy International. “These are awards we give out to government institutions and businesses whove done the most to invade our privacy,” says Hoofnagle, who also serves as deputy counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), […]

Tired of e-mail promises to make you thinner, richer, taller, smarter, larger, safer, firmer, debt-free, and highly entertained? Nothing will stop all these unwanted messages, but here are 16 products that can help ease the bloat. The Lifecycle of Spam How They Get Your E-Mail AddressA spammer has several sneaky ways of getting your e-mail […]

As of this week, DVD X Copy, a 321 Studios application recently reviewed by PC Magazine, is readily available from the 321 Web site and many popular retailers, including CompUSA and Frys. But if seven of the leading movie studios have their way, this wont last long. On April 25, in US District Court for […]

As expected, at the CeBIT 2002 technology trade show in Hannover, Germany, Intel introduced Xeon MP, the server microprocessor previously known as Foster. In Intels Xeon line of workstation and server chips, this is the third to use the companys NetBurst architecture, (which debuted in early 2001 with the Pentium 4 desktop CPU). But this […]

Theyre everywhere we look, carrying the cables that bring us telephone service, electricity, television feeds, and Internet access. Utility poles have become part of the landscape. They line nearly every highway and side street in the country, and you pass them nearly every time you take a drive. But who ever gives them a second […]

During the typical holiday season, with high school and college students on vacation and when people generally have more time on their hands, far more viruses are let loose on the Internet. But this holiday season may have been different. According to Bill Wall, chief security engineer with Harris Corp., which provides online security for […]

Hewlett-Packard is being coy about its plans for CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, opening in Las Vegas on January 7. Jeff Hopper, marketing director for HPs digital imaging organization, will tell you that CEO Carly Fiorina will use her CES keynote speech to discuss “big breakthroughs in HPs digital imaging vision,” but he wont […]

Late last week, Dell Computer decided to discontinue its only Itanium-based workstation, the Precision 730. Dell being Dell—one of the most prominent names in the hardware business—many industry pundits saw this as a sign that Itanium, Intels six-month old 64-bit processor, was falling below expectations. Rumors have swirled that sales arent meeting the forecasts set […]

Microsoft Passport debuted in 1999 and is currently used by 200 million people. The Liberty Alliance Project, proposed by Sun Microsystems this past September, is merely an idea. And yet, as the two were pitted against each other last week—on opposite sides of a debate concerning the best way for users to identify themselves as […]

Recently, the Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA) took an informal poll of its 600 members–event management and marketing professionals who frequent IT industry trade shows. The CEMA poll asked whether, in light of the September 11 terrorist attacks, people would be attending fewer shows than normal over the coming months. 50 percent of the respondents […]