Source: CNN.com
Ten years after it began being embraced by the public, architects say the Internet is far from what it was destined to be, and they are working on a sequel.
In 1993 Marc Andreessen launched Mosaic, the first browser to navigate the Web. In this vintage cyberspace, gray pages and low-resolution graphics were rife.
"I remember downloading it and running it on x-windows when it was running, said Pindar Wong, from Packet Clearing House.
Source: CNN.com
For a fleeting moment, Mohamed Atta appeared on an airport security camera minutes before he boarded one of the planes which crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Was there any way the camera or its operator would have been able to identify Atta as a suspect before he hijacked and flew the first of two planes into the twin towers?
Israelis Michael and Alex Bronstein think they have the answer.
Source: BBC
Police across the world have turned to technology to play the role of virtual detective. Increasingly police forces are relying on software that can sift through the information they gather to help them solve more crimes.
Every UK police force, some European ones and the FBI in the US now use a visualisation software tool by a British company called i2 to analyse all data.
It allows hard-pressed police officers to piece together and picture the evidence they have collected.
Source: Wired.com
On the large television screen, a Kiwi singer strummed a guitar and sang an old country favorite. Looking away from the monitor, the audience could barely pick out a tiny red light in the tall building 1.4 kilometers -- a little less than a mile -- away.
Source: WebItPR
More than ever it matters that the right people are timely informed when emergencies occur on your technical infrastructure or in case of any other urgent event in your organization. FrontWorks, an Amsterdam and Miami based software development and services company, announces the revolutionary Alert! messaging system to fill this need.
Source: Security Focus
A telemarketing tool that penetrates home privacy defenses is upping the ante in a technology battle between sales callers and consumers seeking shelter from unsolicited calls.
Castel Inc., a maker of automated dialing technology, boasts that its DirectQuest software is immune to the TeleZapper, a $40 gadget designed to thwart sales calls by faking the tones of a disconnected number.
Source: CNN.com
Mobile industry bosses at the 3GSM congress in Cannes are trying to solve technical problems that are plaguing the spread of camera phones.
Despite a massive growth in sales, camera phones are still causing headaches for most European users. A widespread inability to work across networks is one of the major problems according to industry heads, who admit some products may have been rushed onto the market.
Here's some new Grid computting resources just released by IBM: The IBM Grid toolbox, includes Globus Toolkit 2.2 with additional documentation and custom installation scripts for Linux and AIX.
