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A hacking challenge, sponsored by the music recording industry, is drawing fire from academic researchers who feel the ballyhooed contest was as much a public relations stunt as a serious test of online music security. “This was not the most effective way to find out whether the technologies would stand up to pirates,” said Edward […]

If you didnt see the first wave of affordable, high-speed Internet connectivity coming, you have nothing to worry about. Heck, the DSL extravaganza, at least at the consumer level, is three years old, and the market appears to have more losers than winners. It will take several more months—or years—for the DSL market to shake […]

Sonys eMarker is like a magic aural identifier. The one-button gizmo can identify most pop, rock and country songs played on any one of about 1,000 U.S. radio stations. The sorcery turns out to be based on fairly simple technology: The device pairs an accurate internal clock with an extensive online music database. The eMarker, […]

At a recent news conference in New York, Dell computer announced its readiness to ship Intel-based thin servers with the same direct sales derring-do that marked its successful assault on the PC market. At that very moment in Dells Round Rock, Texas, headquarters, however, a server made by a competitor was churning out the thousands […]

Companies looking for venture capital financing this year will find there is still plenty of cash available, but it may take a Herculean effort—or simply a credible business plan—to grab a slice of it. The heyday of easy money is certainly over, but the VC well has not run dry, according to numerous industry analysts […]

Thin is in, as sales of slim, rack-mounted servers continue to soar and competition for customers heats up with two more major computer makers entering the fray. In addition, a startup may shake up things later this year when it introduces an ultracompact server featuring a vertical “blade design.” While rack-mounted servers come in various […]

Soon, some job seekers at Cisco Systems Inc. will be able to show up for interviews wearing shorts and bunny slippers if theyre so inspired. Its not that Cisco, long known for its innovative employee recruiting practices, has decided its important to make job applicants feel as comfortable as possible. Rather, the $19 billion networking […]

As if mindful of an energy crunch in Silicon Valley, a group of former Compaq Computer executives have gotten together to form RLX Technologies, which intends to produce low-power-consumption servers. The company plans to deliver servers with eight times the processing power per cubic foot at one-quarter of the power consumption. RLX was launched Jan. […]

The inauguration of President George W. Bush and the likely confirmation of John Ashcroft as attorney general have antipornography forces rejoicing and adult-site operators nervous. The last eight years have been very good to the cyberporn industry. The Clinton administration took no action against online smut sites despite ample state and federal obscenity laws. “The […]

Voice as smooth as silk, stock quotes as steady as a heartbeat, firewalls as secure as a mothers love — its a lot to ask of a network built on threads of glass as thin as human hair. But its where the Internet is going — to a simpler, optical architecture that marries technologies, layers […]