According to Yahoo!News, security experts predict that “[c]omputer hackers will open a new front in the multi-billion [dollar] ‘cyberwar’ in 2007, targeting mobile phones, instant messaging and community Web sites such as MySpace”. ZDNet UK reveals that Ultrawideband is to be legalized across Europe within the next six months, but [...]
According to the New York Times, “smaller online retailers, and those with strong gift-certificate sales, are being especially hard hit” this holiday season by fraudulent orders, which usually involve credit card numbers stolen offline or in email scams. eWeek.com reports that “ICANN officials ended a week-long marathon of meetings in [...]
The Los Angeles Times reveals that “Russia's Interior Ministry accused executives of IBM Corp. on Thursday of stealing money from the country's $57-billion pension fund.” Forbes.com reports that thousands of legitimate Web sites have become the victims of a new Google policy to wipe out questionable advertisers. According to eWeek.com, [...]
According to the Register, “European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has warned that efforts to establish the pan-European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) are in danger of coming to naught, after the agreement failed to secure the support of national governments on Monday.” Wired News points out that even though “Europe's elected officials [...]
CNet News reports that Sun's chief open-source officer has backed the third version of the General Public License. According to the publication, this comes as a surprise, “given Sun's decision last month to release Java under version 2 of the GPL, which governs Linux and many other open-source products”. Also [...]
