Archives: 2008 July

Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of “severe retaliation” if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.

Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., produced a translated version of a document from China’s Public Security Bureau that requires […]

Is the Boogy Man really coming? Now that Macs are becoming popular, are we getting hit with hackers and viruses? Well…what time is it?

Mac OS X is a secure operating system, and that by itself is a challenge to some people. Rather than worry about what some snarky person is doing, it is much more […]

It’s time again to pop open the virtual mailbag, which overflows with insightful questions from inquisitive readers.

This week’s first query comes from a reader who recently upgraded from an old CRT monitor to an LCD. When connecting the new monitor to his computer, he noticed that there are two output jacks to choose from, […]

For the last few years, it’s been easier to sack New England quarterback Tom Brady than to get the National Football League thinking about a more progressive Internet strategy. “They’ve been very dictatorial about the amount of [video highlight] content you can put on your Web site,” Gartner Digital Media Analyst Allen Weiner told the […]

Beginning on Friday, Reuters can no longer use a critical piece of technology in its widely used Reuters Messaging Network, a court ruled Wednesday. Instead, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgment in favor of FaceTime Communications, owner of the instant messaging technology, in its contract dispute with […]

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers approves a specification that gives support for bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps.

Company hopes new tools will make it easier to offer large numbers of tasks on Mechanical Turk, an Internet service that links jobs with people who can do them.

New Forrester report makes the case that prediction markets are a valuable tool for executive decision-making, lowering the cost of forecasting and increasing accuracy.

Microsoft is finally recognizing that there is life outside its own technologies, referring Mac and Windows users to Firefox, and not merely its IE browser.

Thomson Reuters Corp. must remove a crucial layer of software from its instant messaging service beginning Friday under a federal court order that threatens to disrupt communications within dozens of stock brokerages and banks.

The decision issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon penalized Thomson Reuters for being two weeks late with its final licensing […]