By Andy Greenberg
A study by Purdue researchers paints a picture of a world economy plagued by costly digital espionage. In the murky world of cyber espionage, the spied-upon are often just as silent as the spies. Even as governments publicize the problem of intellectual property theft by digital intruders, few companies’ chief information officers [...]
By Ryan Faas
January 29, 2009 (Computerworld) There’s no doubt that Apple Inc.’s iPhone has changed the landscape of the smart-phone industry, and indeed the mobile phone business as a whole. But one of the most revolutionary advances that Apple offered up isn’t in the iPhone itself: It’s the mechanism the company developed to distribute [...]
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 Subatra Suppiah, MIS Asia
The Asia-Pacific’s 3G subscriber base is expected to top 564 million by 2013, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. This accounts for about 18.2 percent of all mobile users. The region was home to an estimated 158.4 million 3G subscribers last year and some 121 million the year before.
By Taylor Buley,
Wireless power technologies are moving closer to becoming viable options.
In Pictures: 10 Wireless Electricity Technologies
This year probably won’t be the tipping point for wireless electricity. But judging from all the new techniques and applications of this awe-inspiring technology, getting power through the airwaves could soon be viable.