Scott Bradner, Network World
As the year winds down I’ve been trying to decide how to summarize it Internet-wise. But it seems to me that the continuing saga of the news business symbolizes yet another year of close-to-terminal, Internet-induced confusion for traditional businesses — or, maybe, panic.
By Lara Farra
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Beijing, China – A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.
by Jacqueline Emigh, PC World
Flash forward to about a year from now, if you will. Envision yourself walking into a consumer electronics store toward the end of 2010. What kinds of HDTV products and features is your retail salesperson likely to tout? LCD flat panel TVs will gain even more predominance by then, while [...]
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer. Although Apple has never acknowledged that a device exists, anticipation is peaking as the company enters the new year.
by Michael J. Miller
What does the next year of software look like? Some things are obvious, such as new versions of Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office and continued improvement in online applications, mobile tools, collaboration, and new forms of communication. But what’s most exciting about software is that often the biggest changes come [...]
By Mike Elgan
December 24, 2009 — Computerworld —
Some old-and-busted technologies die gracefully of natural causes. Pagers, PDAs, floppy disks — they’re gone, and good riddance.But other obsolete tech lingers on, even though better alternatives abound that are easier, cheaper, higher quality and much more efficient.
Ellen Messmer, Network World
The rise of the Conficker worm and Heartland Payment Systems’ enormous data breach were two defining security events in 2009. What’s in store for 2010?
“It’s going to get worse,” says Patrik Runald, senior manager of security and research at Websense, who argues there has not yet been a year when things got [...]
We’ve all experienced some form of holiday shopping panic: “There’s only of months/days/hours left before Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa! What am I going to do?” Well, Macworld’s here to help with the Mac lover in your life. We’ve polled our staff of contributors to get their ideas for gifts that you can, if necessary, pull out of your [...]
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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 Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld — The disclosure that Iraqi insurgents were able to intercept live video feeds from U.S. drones has focused the spotlight on a familiar IT security issue: data encryption.
Insurgents Intercept Video Feeds from U.S. Drones Using $26 Software, Report says
In a story that’s receiving widespread attention, the Wall Street [...]