The market is awash with claims and counter-claims regarding the level and nature of security risks. Claims that risks are hyped give companies a false sense of security and put them at risk of not taking any action, while counter-claims often lead companies to spend in the wrong areas, an industry expert says.
Sitting in his office at Trinity College, James Hughes explains his vision of a family gathering a couple of hundred years from now: One family member is a cyborg, another is outfitted with gills for living underwater. Yet another has been modified to live in a vacuum.
"But they will all consider themselves as descendants of humanity," he says.
Nary a day goes by without another announcement from Google, the search engine titan. First news, then mail, followed by maps, local, TV, video , desktops and even an aborted attempt at making your browsing faster. What else is left but the Earth itself?
Chess supercomputer Hydra took advantage of human weakness to beat Britain's top chess player Michael Adams in Game 3 of their six-game match worth $150,000 in prize money.
The German government is using highly secure chips developed by Munich-based semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies AG. This is an effort to make counterfeiting and unauthorized use virtually impossible in future electronic passports, which the German Passport Office intends to issue as of November 2005.
How many years did you register your domain name for?
If it's only one then that's a point against you in Googles eyes.
Why?
Because the majority of Spam websites only register a domain name for one year. A domain registered for a longer period implies that the owner is more likely to be legitimate and serious about their web site.
This is just one of the unusual factors now considered by Google when indexing and ranking a website. Factors you could never even have guessed at in some cases.
How do I know this?
WHILE SKYPE, the application, gets gushing headlines such as the "iPod for VoIP" in the residential/single-user world, Nimcat Networks (www.nimcatnetworks.com) has developed a really cool peer-to-peer embedded phone application for the SMB world. Nimcat's nimX software is embedded in Aastra's (www.aastra.com) VentureIP� IP phone system and will most likely turn up in some other devices Real Soon Now.
It isn't quite a phone, but it soon will be possible to take a Skype client with you and plug it into a barenaked PC equipped with a USB port. U3, the Silicon Valley start-up launched by Palm veterans earlier this year, says it will support a portable Skype on its flash-based platform from this fall.
Sharp Corp. said Friday it will release what it claims the world's largest liquid crystal display television set, with a 65-inch screen, of its Aquos family in the Japanese market Aug. 1.
The LC-65GE1 features a full-spec high-definition LCD panel, "enabling users to enjoy beautiful, life-like, high-definition images on an impressively large screen that far surpasses other video systems, regardless of the brightness of the room," Sharp said.
