If you’re feeling overwhelmed by information overload lately, you may not be alone. The amount of new information stored on various media such as hard drives has doubled in the past three years, to five exabytes of new information produced in 2002, according to a recently released study by the University of California.
Microsoft has settled antitrust class action lawsuits with five states and the District of Columbia.
The US Senate has passed a bill regulating unsolicited commercial email and allowing fines as large as $US3 million for some types of illegal spam.
Under attack from the US entertainment industry and some members of the US Congress, the largest peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors are forging ahead with business plans that some critics find ironic: the distribution of music and content licensed from the very industry that calls them “outlaws”.
After more than 20 years at Sun Microsystems, co-founder and chief scientist, Bill Joy, is leaving the company.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced Monday that it has filed civil lawsuits against 261 people across the U.S. and will seek thousands of dollars in damages from the defendants, who have each allegedly uploaded an average of 1,000 songs to peer-to-peer networks.
AOL Time Warner has reached an agreement to sell its DVD and CD manufacturing and distribution businesses to a Canadian company, Cinram International, for about $US1.05 billion in cash.
An angry WorldCom stockholder proposing a boycott of the telecommunications company has received more than 17,000 emails, including 7000 in the past week, from supporters.
More than 130 people have been arrested and US$17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies.
Two groups that already have worked closely together on developing wireless security standards have decided to formally join forces. By mid-June, the PAM Forum, a consortium working on presence and availability (P&A) security standards within the wireless industry, will become part of the Parlay Group, a multi-vendor industry consortium encouraging common standards across wireless and other networks.
Telecommunications giant, WorldCom, plagued by bankruptcy court and fraud allegations, got rid of its name in favor of MCI Communications in the space of a few hours, but the change is more than cosmetic, according to the company's vice-president of global marketing, Ron McMurtrie.
The US Department of Commerce has preliminarily concluded that imports of some RAM chips from South Korea are illegally subsidised by the government there, allowing the US to start imposing import duty taxes.
A US think tank advocating the use of open source software in government has launched a source-code escrow program that would allow vendors to make money on proprietary software while eventually releasing their products to the open-source community.
Human error, not technology, is the most significant cause of IT security breaches, according to a security survey released by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
Microsoft has filed a counterclaim in Sun Microsystems' private antitrust lawsuit against the software giant.
