Thursday, November 1, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Personal Technology,
Wireless,
Reuters,
Consumer Electronics,
Phone
Proposal is made after the former No. 2 at the defense ministry admitted he'd been treated to hundreds of rounds of golf by a defense contractor. Japan's government wants to use mobile phones with GPS--often used by parents to keep track of children--to keep tabs on senior defense...
Friday, October 26, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Personal Technology,
Home Entertainment,
Consumer Electronics,
Charles Cooper
Fed up groveling before your PC? You should be. Imagine an alternate universe where your TV forced you through the same daily humiliations. What if turning on a television were as difficult as working with your PC? That would be cyberhell. Computer scientist-philosopher Michael Dertouzos...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Personal Technology,
Apple Inc.,
Microsoft Corp.,
Digital Rights Management (DRM),
Digital Media,
Consumer Electronics
Changes include a complete overhaul of the device's software and a redesign of Marketplace, which will offer 1 million unprotected songs.Photos: Round two for Zune Microsoft has unveiled the second generation of Zune digital music players and will offer consumers 1 million unprotected songs on its online...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Software,
Personal Technology,
Linux,
Microsoft Windows,
Microsoft Corp.,
Liam Tung,
Operating systems,
Windows Media,
Media Center PC,
Digital-rights Management,
Microsoft Windows Media Center,
Digital Rights Management (DRM),
Media Center PCs,
Digital Media,
Home Entertainment,
Consumer Electronics
Former Microsoft security expert may switch from Windows Media Center to LinuxMCE over frustration with Microsoft's DRM. A security expert who once worked for Microsoft has said he may dump the company's Windows Media Center in favor of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights management...
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Vista,
Web technology,
Technology Shakedown,
Software Infrastructure,
Personal Technology,
IT Management,
General
In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...
Category:
Biometric News,
Security,
Web technology,
Personal Technology,
General,
Wired & Wireless,
SaaS,
iPhone,
Broadband
Will the Internet still be here in 20 years? Of course it will, but that was the question asked of Nick McKeown, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun; and Phil McKinney, vice president and CTO of the Personal Systems Group at...
