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Hackers want to hypnotize you When I was a kid, I was fascinated by hypnosis. What could be more appealing to a nerdy 13-year-old boy living in Queens than getting others to do whatever he wanted? Pirate Bay strikes back at media content companies Swedish police are expected to decide later this week whether a criminal case is warranted against 10 major music and movie companies over their alleged efforts to disrupt the Pirate Bay, one of the largest file-sharing search engines. September 25, 5:19 a.m. PDT Shutdown of eDonkey file-sharing servers may be short-lived The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long. September 21, 8:08 a.m. PDT Best of open source in networking If we had to pick the most significant trend in networking today, the VoIP phenomenon might well top the list. And open source is playing no small part. While enterprises remain reluctant to rip out their tried-and-true PBXes, open source VoIP -- usually in the form of Asterisk -- is capturing business communications one small business or branch office at a time. Sooner or later, enterprises too will catch the open source VoIP bug. The cost savings and flexibility are too compelling to resist.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Windows Meeting Space is worthy of conversation Living with Vista is an ongoing project, rife with application incompatibilities and instances of people checking out my Mac in Starbucks, then shooting me dirty looks when they spy the Vista logo. Hey, I like Office 2007, and Parallels rules, so back off. But there's more to Vista than the new Office. Live there for a while and you'll bump into new features frequently. April 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Startup applies P-to-P to calendar scheduling Tungle Corp. will deliver on Friday a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a peer-to-peer network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings. March 22, 4:35 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST When lawyers use Napster at work Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorney’s office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, “This is my computer and my network; you’re just a computer janitor.” February 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Google partners with Chinese P2P site Google has struck a partnership with a Chinese peer-to-peer file downloading service, Xunlei Networking Technologies of Shenzhen. January 5, 4:29 a.m. PST Microsoft Collaboration 101 I spent my second holiday season in a row at Pebble Beach. I won't gloat too much about that, except to say that when you're standing on the 7th at Pebble, the word Vista takes on a whole new meaning. Everything was great until I got back to the hotel, checked e-mail, and saw a reader missive complaining about my coverage of SharePoint and Groove. January 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST P-to-P goes Hollywood With all the legal disputes arising from P-to-P (peer to peer) file sharing networks such as Napster, Gnutella, and KaZaa in recent years, it’s easy to forget that the concept of P-to-P networks is almost as old as the Internet itself. In fact, decentralized networks that harness the computing resources of hosts rather than servers are behind services as diverse as Usenet and IRC. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST FedEx Kinko's and our connected future As the big name CIO keynoting at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Rob Carter of Federal Express could have been forgiven for doing a deep dive on how his 7,000-person IT team is using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), mashups, Web video, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python), and other checkbox items from the cool-tools list. But Carter took things in a different direction: talking philosophically about how the Internet’s impact is accelerating changes in the way the world interacts and in the way IT works. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Recording industry sues another 8,000 file sharers Stepping up its battle against online music piracy, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced thousands of new lawsuits against those it suspects of illegal file-sharing. October 17, 5:53 a.m. PDT Gaming for business What does gaming have to do with mainstream business? Until recently, I’d have answered, “not much.” But a conversation with Tim Keanini of nCircle made me rethink my position. October 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Judge says Morpheus encourages piracy In another blow to peer-to-peer file sharing, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Morpheus software program encouraged users to infringe upon copyrighted works. September 29, 4:37 a.m. PDT Lime Wire turns tables, sues record companies Peer-to-peer (p-to-p) file-sharing software developer Lime Wire has countersued the biggest record companies, charging them with anti-competitive behavior. September 26, 5:59 a.m. PDT Demofall to highlight Java Wares The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but it’s still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their company’s product will change the world. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Napster exploring sale, tie-up Napster, the remade version of the popular Internet music sharing service, is in talks over a sale or possible strategic partnership, the company said Monday. September 19, 4:31 a.m. PDT EDonkey settles record industry battle for $30 million One of the last of the popular P-to-P (peer-to-peer) music sharing sites has been defeated, with eDonkey’s agreement to settle its copyright infringement case with the record industry. September 13, 8:51 a.m. PDT Man involved with BitTorrent pleads guilty to copyright theft An Erie, Pennsylvania, man involved in a BitTorrent peer-to-peer network has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and faces up to five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. September 12, 11:15 a.m. PDT PC hard disk system warns of Tsunamis Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis. September 7, 5:52 a.m. PDT French copyright law takes effect, to industry dismay Software publishers and Socialist Party members are among the groups unhappy with the new French copyright law that took effect Friday. French Net surfers could now go to prison for downloading copyright music files without authorization, while companies such as Apple Computer, which make or use DRM (digital rights management) technology to protect music downloads, may have to provide details of the system to their competitors in the interests of interoperability. August 4, 7:10 a.m. PDT Update: Kazaa settles with record industry In a dramatic close to the legal battle between file-sharing software developer Kazaa and the entertainment industry, Kazaa said on Thursday that it has agreed to pay at least $100 million to four record companies and an additional amount to motion picture companies to settle two lawsuits. July 27, 8:16 a.m. PDT Number of file-sharers in Japan rises sharply About 1.8 million people in Japan are active users of file-sharing software, a sharp increase from a year ago, according to a survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), TV broadcasters, and other industry groups. July 25, 5:15 a.m. PDT IBM to integrate IM into Microsoft Office IBM will announce Monday that Lotus Sametime, version 7.5, the company’s instant messaging and collaboration tool, will integrate with Microsoft Outlook, Office, and SharePoint applications. June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Identity thieves lurking in P-to-P Users of P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing services may be sharing more than they bargained for, a former White House cybersecurity advisor has warned. June 23, 1:05 p.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT TorrentSpy suit accuses MPAA of hacking In a tale of intrigue that's perhaps fitting for the parties involved, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has denied that it paid a hacker to steal information from TorrentSpy, as alleged in a lawsuit filed by the file-searching company this week in California. May 26, 4:12 a.m. PDT Germany nabs 3,500 in file-sharer sweep German investigators charged 3,500 people with illegal music sharing, in the biggest single sweep of its kind, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Tuesday. May 23, 6:44 a.m. PDT Zfone encrypts VOIP for Windows users Zfone, a free piece of software that encrypts voice over IP calls in a way that may circumvent government eavesdropping laws in some countries, is now available to Windows users, its developer said on Sunday. May 22, 4:49 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews EMC rolls out entry SAN and archiving software EMC introduced the EMC clariion AX150 and AX150i storage systems and the EMC Documentum Archive Services for Email and Archive Services for Reports. The AX150 systems, available with Fibre Channel or iSCSI connectivity, support as many as 10 host servers and scale from 750GB to 6TB of SATA II storage. Pricing starts at $5,600. The new Archiving Services offerings are based on a unified archiving platform for collecting, retaining, securing, and discovering all kinds of information, including e-mail, reports, documents, images, Web content, video, and transactional data. Prices vary by configuration. EMC Clariion AX150 and EMC Documentum Archive Services, EMC April 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT The hidden challenges of federated identity For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company’s identity infrastructure. But as businesses push to create new products and increase productivity, they have discovered that they often must cooperate to provide the services their customers and employees demand. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Scaling a federated identity infrastructure Different kinds of organizations approach the problem of scaling a federated identity implementation in different ways. When you’re federating with one or two partners, hammering out the legal arrangements and assigning risk and liability is done one partner at a time. Even if technology standards provide universal system interoperability, the lawyers are likely to approach each agreement as a one-off task. Let’s call this model “peer-to-peer federation.” March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST User-centric identity brings federation close to home Federation doesn’t have to be a behind-the-scenes interaction between big companies. Lately, an idea called “user-centric identity” has gained traction. It revolves around a few core principles, most notably the idea that users should be allowed to choose which identity credentials to present in response to an authentication or attribute request. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Report identifies Kazaa, SpyAxe as 'badware' The popular Kazaa p-to-p (peer-to-peer) file-trading software and a supposed spyware-blocking application are among the first four programs identified as "badware" by the fledgling StopBadware.org group in a report released Wednesday. March 22, 4:14 a.m. PST MPAA suits expand war on illegal file-trading Widening its legal assault on copyright infringement, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed seven lawsuits in U.S. federal courts against search engines and news groups affiliated with p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks. February 24, 4:27 a.m. PST Update: Swiss, Belgians close eDonkey server Authorities in Belgium and Switzerland on Wednesday arrested the operator of a heavily trafficked server for the eDonkey P-to-P (peer-to-peer) network, seizing its hardware, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said. February 22, 8:25 a.m. PST Ericsson to offer hosted Napster service Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has announced a new service allowing users to pay and download music, ringtones, and artist images from the Napster peer-to-peer network to their mobile phones and PCs, the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer announced Monday at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. February 13, 4:54 a.m. PST Fraunhofer develops tool against online music piracy Fraunhofer Institute has developed prototype technology to help curb the sharp rise in online music piracy, which, ironically, has been enabled through another invention of the renowned German research group: MP3 audio compression. February 9, 6:52 a.m. PST Microsoft merges enterprise IM and Exchange groups Microsoft Corp. is merging its Exchange and Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) groups into a new unit called the Unified Communications Group, the company announced Monday. The change is aimed at aligning development work on Microsoft's e-mail platform with that done around other communications systems like instant messaging, Web conferencing and phone/VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). January 30, 1:06 p.m. PST Silicon Valley group pushes for local wireless network The region that spawned the microprocessor and helped wire the world now wants to unwire itself with the help of local chip giant Intel Corp. January 30, 12:01 p.m. PST Google eyes how mobile devices will use city Wi-Fi Google Inc. has met with mobile gear vendors including Motorola Inc. and Sony Corp. to explore how their devices might be able to take advantage of municipal Wi-Fi networks, an executive of the search company said Thursday. January 27, 1:23 p.m. PST Family-friendly enterprise calendaring When Ray Ozzie posted an announcement to his Weblog about Microsoft’s proposed SSE (Simple Share Extensions) for RSS and OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), I was delighted. On the technical front, it’s great to see the synchronization DNA of Groove and Lotus Notes finding its way, at last, onto the Web. But on the social front, it was a milestone, too. January 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Web site publishes stored P-to-P photos Call it a flickr.com for the unwilling: Users of P-to-P (peer-to-peer) networks are finding photos stored in shared folders are being published on a new voyeuristic Web site that went live a few days ago, but the site may violate laws, a legal expert said. January 5, 9:38 a.m. PST 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST P-to-P amendment delays French copyright bill The French government has postponed the National Assembly's vote on a new copyright law until the new year, abandoning its earlier insistence that the bill was so urgent that it must pass before year-end. December 23, 3:20 a.m. PST RIAA files new round of lawsuits, P-to-P use down The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a new round of lawsuits against people who share unauthorized copies of music over P-to-P (peer-to-peer) services, the trade group announced Thursday. December 15, 5:08 p.m. PST Kazaa owners face contempt charges in Australia Executives of Sharman Networks, operator of the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing system, could face jail time after record companies asked an Australian judge to find Sharman leaders in contempt of court. The record companies say Sharman has failed to implement certain filtering technologies as the court ordered by an early-December deadline. The court said it will consider the contempt motion on January 30. December 15, 4:36 a.m. PST Sharman blocks Australian access to Kazaa software Sharman Networks is blocking Internet users in Australia from downloading the client software used to access the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing system. It has taken the decision in order to comply with an Australian court ruling, it said Tuesday. December 6, 5:38 a.m. PST Why data synchronization still matters The physics of data management used to dictate that your data could be either consistent or highly available but never both at the same time. The discipline of data synchronization sits uncomfortably on the horns of this Heisenbergian dilemma. As times change, though, so do the trade-offs associated with synchronization and its uses. November 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Judge orders Kazaa to install keyword filter The operators of the Kazaa file-sharing service have been given until Dec. 5 to update their software with a filter to screen out copyright material or else face the prospect of being shut down. November 28, 4:25 a.m. PST IBM employees play with podcasting What do you get when you hand 320,000 employees the tools and corporate podcasting guidelines to internally publish their audio creations? In IBM Corp.'s experience, lower phone bills and better, more informal internal communication. November 23, 11:23 a.m. PST Microsoft making RSS a two-way street Microsoft Corp. is extending the popular RSS 2.0 Web syndication format to make it "multidirectional," allowing it to be used for synchronizing information such as contacts and calendar entries across different applications, the company said. November 23, 7:34 a.m. PST IT may not top agenda at US-India tech trade meeting A meeting on technology cooperation between U.S. and Indian officials and business representatives in Delhi at the end of this month is unlikely to have a significant impact on IT trade between the two countries, because of the already booming and stable two-way trade in IT between the two countries, according to Indian IT industry representatives. November 23, 4:23 a.m. PST Moving toward mesh networks The dream of broadband connectivity that’s as ubiquitous as the air you breathe still is not reality, and perhaps it would be a cruel pun to tell you not to hold your breath. November 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Re-engineering life interruptions As Web services automate the work performed by millions of workers, where will these folks go next? Not to worry. People are the exception handlers in all automated workflows, and intelligence and judgment won’t be automated anytime soon. What does worry me, though, is how we’ll connect people and services. Managing that scarcest of resources, our attention, is a huge challenge. October 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Level 3, Cogent call time out on peering spat Level 3 Communications restored its peering connection with fellow ISP (Internet service provider) Cogent Communications late Friday, temporarily ending a standoff that had blocked out some Internet traffic between their customers for several days. October 10, 4:16 a.m. PDT U.S. p-to-p companies will disappear, exec says Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing companies in the U.S. will cease to exist in their current forms over the next few months, the president of MetaMachine, the company responsible for the eDonkey software, predicts. September 30, 8:04 a.m. PDT Senators turning up heat on P2P pirates WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers pushed federal authorities Wednesday to crack down on peer-to-peer services that pirate copyrighted works, while one P2P operator told them pressure from the recording industry was forcing him to change his ways. September 29, 2:40 a.m. PDT DTCP prevents mass copying, allows streaming The ink on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week against peer-to-peer file sharing services may barely be dry, but the PC industry is ready to help the entertainment industry secure the future distribution of premium content over the Internet thanks to a technology known as DTCP. July 1, 5:13 a.m. PDT Grokster is slapped, rodents get mapped Things are moving apace with the social networking diva, thanks for asking. She’s invited me to a July Fourth barbecue. I’m supposed to bring something to toss on the barbie and a good story that reveals the Cringe nobody knows. Maybe I’ll just toss myself on the barbie instead. July 1, 5:00 a.m. PDT Taiwan court rules in favor of P-to-P company TAIPEI -- In the first ruling of its kind in Taiwan, a Taiwanese district court on Thursday found peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software maker Ezpeer.com not guilty of violating copyrights. The groups responsible for raising the suit vowed to appeal. July 1, 4:56 a.m. PDT Kazaa-owner welcomes file-sharing decision Sharman Networks, the Australian company that owns the Kazaa file-sharing software, said Tuesday that it welcomes a U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding file-sharing software that was announced a day earlier and has been widely interpreted as a victory for the entertainment industry. June 28, 6:31 a.m. PDT Update: U.S. Supreme Court rules against Grokster Grokster and StreamCast Networks can be held liable for copyright infringements committed by users of their peer-to-peer file-sharing software, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision in the case Grokster v. MGM is a major win for the motion picture and recording industries, which took the case to the nation's highest court after losses in lower courts. June 27, 9:04 a.m. PDT Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND - Researchers at Microsoft's Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs and software applications to end-users over the Internet. June 16, 9:45 a.m. PDT Getting HTTP right Last month, when I discussed the proper use of the HTTP verbs POST and GET, the benefits and hazards seemed abstract. Recently, though, two compellingly concrete examples emerged. The first involved a collision between Google’s new Web Accelerator and an application called Backpack, which is built with Ruby on Rails, a Web application framework for the Ruby programming language. This was an unfortunate but timely demonstration of what can go wrong when HTTP-based software fails to distinguish between requests that alter resources and requests that do not. May 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: Open source group goes international with new board SOA Software (formerly Digital Evolution) has added a registry-based dashboard to its Service Manager. The registry-based dashboard uses real-time alerts to improve Web services performance by securing, monitoring, and managing XML and Web services and providing centralized management of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The dashboard offers an easy-to-use graphical interface with visual indicators such as live charts and color-coded graphs that enable customers to monitor service-level agreements, security thresholds, and performance metrics. The registry-based dashboard will be included in the SOA Software Service Manager 3.0, which is slated to ship in May.? Service Manager pricing starts at $5,000 per CPU. April 4, 9:10 a.m. PDT Bertelsmann returns to P-to-P German media giant Bertelsmann, a former investor in the Napster file-sharing network, is taking another stab at peer-to-peer (P-to-P) technology with a new service for downloading and sharing movies, games, and other content over the Internet. April 1, 4:55 a.m. PST Supreme Court justices question P-to-P lawsuits WASHINGTON -- Technology companies may shy away from inventing new products that could be used to violate copyright laws if the U.S. entertainment industry can sue the distributors of the Grokster and Morpheus P-to-P (peer-to-peer) software packages for their users' actions, some U.S. Supreme Court justices argued Tuesday. March 29, 12:11 p.m. PST Mark Cuban to finance Grokster's Supreme Court battle Lawyers for Grokster have recruited a financially powerful ally in their fight against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. March 28, 4:35 a.m. PST Grokster case may have large impact beyond P-to-P WASHINGTON -- When the entertainment industry faces off against two peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors in the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, nothing less than the future of technological innovation is at stake, according to some technology trade groups. March 24, 7:32 a.m. PST Group complains about 'legal' download sites WASHINGTON - The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington, D.C., Internet civil liberties group, on Tuesday filed a federal deceptive-advertising complaint against two Web sites claiming to offer "100 percent legal" downloads of music, movies and software. March 8, 1:29 p.m. PST New Bagle worms making the rounds Two new versions of the Bagle e-mail worm are spreading on the Internet and through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, according to warnings issued on Thursday by antivirus software companies. January 27, 8:46 a.m. PST The best products of 2004 Hardware and Software Platforms December 30, 3:00 p.m. PST Supreme Court to hear Grokster case WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case focusing on whether peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors should be penalized for unauthorized file trading when their software is used. December 13, 4:37 a.m. PST Barrett: Good business models vary widely BANGALORE, INDIA - Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing would never have gathered momentum if the music industry had adopted models for distribution over the Internet, said Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett, addressing IT executives in India Friday. November 19, 1:46 p.m. PST SK Telecom previews file sharing for 3G phones BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom Co. Ltd. previewed a file-sharing application for cell phones this week that will let users swap files, including ring tones, music and videos over its 3G (third-generation) network. September 8, 4:20 a.m. PDT Intel invests $2B in Ireland chip plant Intel will add additional manufacturing space to an existing wafer fabrication facility in Leixlip, Ireland, in order to build the next generation of its microprocessors, Intel announced Wednesday. May 20, 1:20 p.m. PDT DOJ sweep targets Internet piracy The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and law enforcement officials from 10 other nations seized more than 200 computers this week in an Internet piracy sweep. April 23, 9:20 a.m. PDT Supercomputer hacks highlight ed security challenge BOSTON - The recent intrusions on supercomputers at leading U.S. research universities highlight a growing problem: college campuses struggling to maintain academic openness while protecting staff and students from Internet-borne viruses and malicious hackers. April 16, 2:53 p.m. PDT EarthLink finds rampant spyware, trojans Internet service provider EarthLink and Webroot Software released a report on Thursday that said an average of almost 28 spyware programs are running on each computer. More serious, Trojan horse or system monitoring programs were found on more than 30 percent of all systems scanned, raising fears of identity theft. April 15, 3:51 p.m. PDT > Application development > Collaboration > Applications > Collaboration > Networking |
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