Ed Sutherland

Can a company known more for its security software make it in the rough-and-tumble world of consumer-grade wireless routers owned largely by Linksys and Netgear? Check Point Software Technologies  unveiled its first consumer hardware product, the ZoneAlarm Secure Wireless Router Z100G. But Check Point officials say they’re not targeting the same routers Cisco’s Linksys unit […]

Although IBM is making news today with its Smart Surveillance System (S3) video, which it says can tell a terrorist from a traveling salesman or a scammer from a shopper, researchers began the project with a more modest goal. They wanted to tell a cumquat from a rutabaga. “Veggie Vision,” as it was called a […]

What happens when you mix broadcast television and video-sharing sensation YouTube? Cable giant Comcast  hopes it looks something like Ziddio, its new Website and video-on-demand programming. The news comes as rival Verizon  is reportedly in talks with YouTube allowing the carrier’s subscribers to view videos via Verizon Wireless’ broadband VCast service. Verizon was not immediately […]

Is Cingular ahead of the smartphone pack or simply playing catch-up? That’s what some of the analyst chatter is about the wireless carrier, which announced it will begin selling the first 3G PDA in North America Nov. 16. Sporting a $399.99 price tag and slide-out keyboard, the new device offers business users 3G speed, GPS […]

An FBI investigation of an international ring of phishers that used the Internet to swap stolen IDs and credit cards – including information of customers of a “major financial institution” — netted 17 hackers in the U.S. and Eastern Europe, federal law enforcement officials said. Four U.S. arrests were made, along with 13 in Poland, […]

Make room for the Zune digital music player, MSN. In a note on its MSN Web site, Microsoft’s MSN Music division said that, as of Nov. 14, it will redirect users to either its Zune site or RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service. “The ‘buy’ buttons that you are used to seeing on the MSN Music album […]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Web, said his creation has grown beyond the interest of only computer scientists. A new student of the online universe is needed: the Web Scientist. In a news conference, Berners-Lee, along with a group of U.S. and U.K. academics, said they have formed the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), […]

Mark your calendars. Microsoft is coming to New York for a Nov. 30 Vista show. The software giant, which said it would unveil its flagship software sometime this month, is making the NASDAQ stock exchange its venue. Could it be a traffic-stopper in Times Square? We’ll see. Business customers may get their first peek at […]

Software giant Microsoft says it is investigating and may issue an out-of-cycle patch to resolve a bug in an ActiveX control used by Visual Studio 2005. The flaw, known as a zero-day vulnerability, is viewed as “extremely critical” by one security research firm. Microsoft said while it knows of proof of concept code published publicly, […]

Cingular subscribers may soon be able to transfer digital music they consume from services such as Yahoo Music , and Napster, to their devices. Is this something for the mighty Apple’s iTunes to worry about? One analyst doesn’t think so. For starters, Cingular is being coy about the news: not quite confirming, but not quite […]

Can wireless technology reduce the mountain of cables and connections found in the modern digital living room? Some are hoping so. A group of world-leading consumer electronics giants has joined with a startup chip designer to promote WirelessHD. The companies involved include Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Samsung, LG Electronics and LTD. Also part of the venture […]

Using online auctions to hawk counterfeit software hasn’t paid off for dozens of alleged sellers named by Microsoft . In its largest effort so far, the software giant said it filed suit against 50 online dealers who used eBay and other Internet auction sites to sell counterfeit products to unaware consumers and businesses. The U.S. […]