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- Strategy: Heading Off Advanced Social Engineering Attacks
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- Strategy: Smartphone Smackdown: Galaxy Note II vs. Lumia 920 vs. iPhone 5
Viral Art: A Gallery Of Security Threats
May 09, 2009
Visually, online threats such as viruses, worms, and Trojans can be as beautiful as they are menacing to individual PC users, enterprises, and IT security professionals.
Webby Awards Honor Jimmy Fallon, Trent Reznor, Twitter
May 05, 2009
The most buzzworthy winner is arguably Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor. An update to his band's iPhone app was recently rejected by Apple.
World Digital Library Puts Scholarly Treasures Online
April 21, 2009
Free, unrestricted public access to digitized manuscripts, maps, books, films, recordings, and prints is available in seven languages.
Citrix NetScaler Gives Servers, Planet A Break
April 17, 2009
If it's true that spam is killing the planet, then Twitter is one of its henchmen. And so are Flash, Flex, Ajax, AIR, Silverlight -- they're all soldiers in a zombie army of Watt-chompers.
Pirate Bay Verdict: Founders Sentenced To Jail, Fined
April 17, 2009
The verdict in the file-sharing site's copyright infringement trial brings a one-year jail sentence, but a message on the peer-to-peer site vows "the losing party will appeal."
GM, Segway Roll Out Project P.U.M.A.
April 07, 2009
The mini electric vehicle prototype sports an electric drive, lithium-ion batteries, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and is intended for urban transportation.
Inside HP's Ink Jet Cartridge Recycling Process
March 27, 2009
Paper recycling gets a lot of ink, if you'll pardon the expression. But while many offices and public places have bins for separating waste paper from trash, getting gunked up, empty ink jet cartridges back to the manufacturer is another story.
IBM Makes A Splash Into Clean Water
March 15, 2009
IBM's thirst for higher margins has pushed it into a new line of business: clean water. Last week Big Blue announced a pair of clean water initiatives: new filtration technology and a line of water management services.
Behind Wal-Mart's E-Health Records Plans
March 12, 2009
Wal-Mart isn't waiting for the Obama administration to figure out how to digitize medical records. The World's Biggest Retailer hopes to do for electronic health records what it has done for dog food, plastic lawn chairs, and some generic drugs: make them widely accessible for a reasonable price.
As GM Fizzles, MIT Transportation Initiative Must Sizzle
March 05, 2009
GM released its annual report Thursday, and while no one was expecting sunshine and unicorns to float off its pages, this is a dark document. Here's a taste: "There is no assurance that the global automobile market will recover."
Toyota Prius 2010: Better Mileage, Bottoming Sales?
March 02, 2009
Ask Toyota Prius owners what their average miles per gallon is and the answer you're likely to get is "50." Rounding is commonplace. The math can be fuzzy. But the 2010 model Prius makes the figure official.
NASA's Bad Week: A Crash; Accusations Of Fraud
February 26, 2009
On Tuesday, a failed NASA launch sent a satellite deep into the frigid sea near Antarctica. On Wednesday, the FBI searched the offices of a University of Florida professor accused of swindling the space agency out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. [Update: on Friday, the White House released its budget proposal, which calls for the space shuttle to be retired.] Luckily for NASA, the week's nearly over.
Cleaner Ways To Clear Snow
January 28, 2009
Another January day in New England. Another several inches of snow. Faced with choosing between fume-spewing snowblowers and back-breaking green options (shoveling or letting the ice accumulate) I have just one question: Where are the snow-clearing robots?
Image Gallery: Highway-Speed Electric Vehicles
January 24, 2009
As battery cell technology advances, expect electric automakers Miles, Myers, Aptera, and Phoenix to shift production of electric cars and hybrids into high gear.
Battery Maker Eyes Michigan For New Plant, New Jobs
January 08, 2009
In a deflated digital economy, can investment in manufacturing plants spur renewed prosperity? U.S. manufacturing is dead, we've been told, but A123Systems isn't buying it. The battery maker is angling to expand its U.S. production capacity and create 14,000 jobs in the process.
Solar Power's Breakout Year
January 06, 2009
The solar industry is the Ugly Betty of clean technology. Photovoltaic panels aren't pretty and solar power isn't yet cheap. But Solar keeps plugging along in its chunky glasses and thick sweaters, inching ever closer to its full potential.
2008: The Year In Pictures
January 03, 2009
The year was notable for high-profile security breaches -- Obama, McCain, and Palin got hacked -- NASA's big news from Mars, and the comedic gifts of Bill Gates.
Image Gallery: How Tech Tools Are Saving Great Works Of Art
December 27, 2008
New labs at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center employ high- and low-tech tools from Microsoft Windows and Gmail, to specialized lighting, an electron microscope, and a room-sized X-ray machine.
Boston Power: Green Laptops Today, Electric Cars Tomorrow?
December 11, 2008
Now that Boston Power will be putting its Sonata line of lithium-ion batteries into Hewlett-Packard's Enviro Series of notebooks, how long until it announces a partnership with a car company?
Image Gallery: Highway-Speed Electric Vehicles
December 10, 2008
As battery cell technology advances, expect electric automakers Miles, Myers, Aptera, and Phoenix to shift production of electric cars and hybrids into high gear.
Image Gallery: Hybrid Vehicle Technology At GE Global Research
December 03, 2008
A visit to GE's advanced battery labs reveals engineers at work on green energy strategies for hybrid automobiles, electric cars, and other vehicles.
Clean Tech Skirts The Financial Meltdown
October 24, 2008
Years from now, when their great-grandchildren ask "what did you do during the Great Financial Meltdown Of Ought-Eight?," the answer clean tech investors and technologists may give is, "what meltdown?"
Image Gallery: Inside GeoEye's $500 Million Imaging Satellite
October 23, 2008
See photos of the GeoEye-1 satellite, which will capture ultra-high-resolution images for Google and U.S. government agencies from 432 miles above Earth.
Green Car Maker Tesla's Troubles Signal Wider Clean Tech Woes
October 17, 2008
When New Yorkers start cutting back on Botox and rhinoplasties1, you know the financiapocalypse2 is upon us. The only thing to do is hold on tight and hope the next bubble comes quick.
Green Car Showroom: 12 Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
October 09, 2008
Check out our pictures of green, 25 mph lightweights, which cost pennies to operate, from upstart automakers Zap, Zenn, Dynasty IT, Miles Electric, and E-Ride.