Memex, a powerful new search tool that goes beyond the realm of Google, Yahoo, and Bing, is launched by DARPA. Chris White, sat down with Stahl and Bar-On and explained how Memex works–and how it could revolutionize law enforcement investigations. […]
Your heartbeat as a password. Nearly all of computer security boils down to one question: How can a device know that you are you? Passwords – are the most basic tactic for confirming your identity. If you can come up […]
Here’s a bit of a look at internet web hosting – then and now. Web servers All of the content on the Internet is stored on servers. A server is a machine much like a personal computer. When you save […]
How Cell-phone viruses work. The first known cell-phone virus appeared in 2004 and didn’t get very far. Cabir.A infected only a small number of Bluetooth-enabled phones and carried out no malicious action — a group of malware developers created Cabir […]
Bill ensures emails, photos won’t die with you — When you die, should your loved ones have access to your Facebook, Yahoo and other online accounts? To become law in a state, the legislation would have to be adopted by […]
Cloud Computing and it’s lack of Security: For years, I’ve managed to keep all of my registered software on local machines, and in those years, I’ve been able to keep, or distribute freely, everything I’ve created, from web apps to […]
Everybody had a plan, an idea, a goal … and everybody had the next best thing. Competition on the internet was fast and furious. You had to move or get left in the dust. It’s not 1996 any more unfortunately. […]
Power, Pollution and the Internet — Jeff Rothschild’s machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space here with racks of computer […]
Robo-bugs are here! They could poke through treacherous rubble in search-and-rescue missions, discreetly snoop on the guilty and innocent alike, and sometimes, just maybe, form into giant swarms that block out the sun and do the bidding of larger, less […]
Here’s a quick look around the internet in 1 minute 90. The New Digg .. Says Bye Bye to Spammers ” .. complaints from spammers and marketers is encouraging for those who are rooting for Digg’s return to glory. “The […]