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People who tried to access Twitter early Friday were redirected to a Web site from the “Iranian Cyber Army.”
The popular microblogging site Twitter was hacked briefly by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army, but the site was quickly restored after the incident early Friday.
By Roy Mark
Broadcasters spent billions on the digital transition, promising viewers who still rely on over-the-air reception multiple channels, HD programming and mobile video. An FCC proposal would limit that to a single standard definition channel. Why? More spectrum for mobile broadband.
By Elinor Mills
Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing the damage last year, according to a new study from McAfee.
By Charles Cooper
We’re turning over this space today to a guest post from Gregory L. Rosston and Scott Wallsten. Rosston is the deputy director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Public Policy program at Stanford University and served as the deputy chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to [...]
By Sharon Gaudin
January 25, 2009 (Computerworld) Recent national outbreaks of E.coli and salmonella poisoning are likely to prompt government mandates requiring that food products be tracked throughout their life cycles — and that could prove to be a boon for radio frequency identification technologies.
By Matt Hamblen
January 16, 2009 (Computerworld) President-elect Barack Obama told CNN today he planned to “hang onto” his beloved BlackBerry, but did not explain how he would overcome legal and security concerns. The revelation came in an interview with CNN’s John King in which Obama said, “I think we’re going to be able to [...]
By Paul McNamara, Network World
The year 1984 provided a boatload of technological achievement and geeky infamy. The media will revisit them one by one over the next 12 months, but here they are today, neatly alphabetized.
ByTaylor Buley
Wireless technologies are starting to power devices.
LAS VEGAS–Walking around Fulton Innovations’ showcase at the Consumer Electronics Show, it’s easy to think that 2009 will be the year of wireless electricity. A blender whirs wireless, and a laptop powers up without a battery. Like a modern day version of the 1904 World’s Fair, it’s the [...]