China is taking the issue of intellectual property rights "seriously" and is pledging with the U.S. to fight cybercrime, said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder during his trip to Beijing
When you're on a business trip, running errands or on vacation, you probably don't have the same access to a computer as you do during the workday. But if you tweet on the go or like to keep up with your Twitter followers outside of work, mobile access to Twitter is essential.
Apple on Wednesday started selling its iPhone 3G online, the first time in a year that consumers have been able to get their hands on the device without making a trip to an Apple retail store or buying from AT&T.
Heading into their second week of space travel the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis have a lot on their schedule. Today two of the astronauts will venture out for the mission’s third and final space walk.
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars.
The European Space Agency wants volunteers to take the 520-day trip to Mars. Well ok, a simulated version of the red planet voyage but you would get to go to Moscow and pretend you were on a spaceship.
After its undocking from the International Space Station Wednesday afternoon, the crew of the space shuttle Discovery quickly began two days of inspections to make sure it can survive the trip home. The astronauts leave after installing the S6 truss and attached 5,000-pound solar arrays last week.
From writing dated, irrelevant job descriptions to accepting a less-than-ideal candidate because the work is piling up, classic hiring mistakes are just waiting to trip up managers.
I spent last week in Sydney, Australia for the 5th annual Marcus Evans Identity Management conference. It’s always good to see the Oz ID guys, and this trip was as much fun as my visit two years ago. This year, the real surprise was how small the world is becoming.
"Ping," a command that was designed - and used for many years - to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame, especially considering that the term has even made it into our everyday usage. Want to find out if somebody received a message or you need to remind them of something? Then we "ping" them.
This week's newsletters are focused on (one of) my annual treks to Las Vegas to gather more information about the networking industry in a few days than many people (probably not readers of this newsletter) learn in a lifetime. It's my way of letting you in on some of the news at the show, and your way of virtually following me out to Vegas if you were unable to make the trip.
I was in the Rose City last week (that's Portland, Ore., for those unfamiliar with the nickname) for O'Reilly's Open Source Conference. I'd hoped to escape the record heat wave in the San Francisco Bay Area by traveling north, but landed at PDX airport with the thermometer reading 97(F, 36C)! Fortunately, there were a couple of open source related identity announcements so the trip wasn't a total loss.
A one-of-a-kind aircraft powered solely by solar energy took to the skies above Silicon Valley early Friday morning on the first leg of a planned trip across the U.S.
Next month, billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi, will become the fifth civilian to fly in space when he rockets to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-10 capsule. He will be joined by Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and return to Earth 11 days later with the systems current orbiting crew -- Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and Spanish-born U.S. astronaut Miguel Lopez-Alegria, according to reports. Simonyi is spending over $20 million for the trip.
Remember walking in to start your first job out of college? Or that diner you stopped in when you were on a road trip with your friends? The way the sky looked when you made that one perfect ski run, or the song that was playing when your daughter took her first step?
Cheering crowds packed into Boston University's Agganis Arena over the weekend not for a rock concert or sporting event, but for a robotics competition. More than 50 teams from across the Northeast U.S. and three other countries brought homemade robots to compete in the Boston regional FIRST robotics competition. To watch a video report from the event, click here.
My 3-year-old loves dinosaurs - in fact, I think he’s part T-Rex - so we recently made a rare trip into Manhattan to see the magnificent dinosaur bones at the American Museum of Natural History. But the museum is much more than a collection of fossils; it’s a living, breathing research institution with more than 200 scientists. And those scientists need Apatosaurus-sized bandwidth.
BellSouth has introduced a VPN service that guarantees QoS from customer site to customer site, not just the part of the trip that is actually in the carrier's network.
The Bells will find the sledding so tough in IPTV that they may bow out, according to three analysts speaking at this week's Next Generation Networks 2005 conference.
Recently, I was talking about the relatively new identity management area of online reputation management. Some siloed reputation management systems were mentioned (e.g., eBay, Yelp, Trip Advisor), which are the ones always mentioned whenever identity management visionaries get together. But, in reality, what we're looking for goes back much farther than the online age.
Last week, roving reporter John Cox took a trip into the experimental world of wireless sensors. This is an area that’s “pre-standard,” as they say, but when you start to consider the possibilities, the mind boggles. My personal favorite from among the early pioneers is a sensor coupled with a Bluetooth transmitter that is embedded in a concrete piling. It can tell you - by the way the ground reverberates when the piling is slammed into it - what kind of soil it is and just how much of a load the pil