Comdex: Attendance Down, Security Up
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 said theyd be spending...
Hack Nap
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 the federal government as well...
Riya Beta: See it in Action
When I first covered Riya, the face-recognizing photo organizer and sharer from Ojos, it was available to less than 30 hand-picked testers. Since then, the free service has graduated from alpha to beta status, and the difference is like night and day. The face-recognition tools are far from perfect, but theyre much improved, and in the end, the service...
Flock Promises More Social Web Browsing
At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a California startup is set to announce on Thursday a new Web browser based on open-source Mozilla technologies, the software at the core of the popular Firefox browser.
Dubbed Flock, the new browser is designed to improve the handling of bookmarks, surfing history, Weblogs and RSS feeds.
The company, also known as Flock,...
Google Talk (Beta)
At A GlanceThe new Google Talk Beta doesnt do much, but what it does, it does well. Googles long-awaited communication client offers instant messaging and Voice over IP—nothing more. You wont find video conferencing, file-transfer utilities, games, search boxes, stock tickers, or any of the myriad other tools available with its three primary competitors: America Onlines AIM client, Microsofts...
DVD XCopy Maker Shuts Doors
This past Monday, 321 Studios shut its doors. Maker of the once popular DVD copying applications, DVD X Copy and DVD Copy Plus, the St. Charles, Missouri company has brought an end to nearly two years of legal battles with the leading Hollywood Studios, which felt the software was in violation of federal law. In February, the company was...