Articles by Jay Lyman

A leading Green researcher and environmental advocate who was among the first to warn of the effects of global warming has caused a stir with his idea that a faster, more troubling timetable of climate change requires an embrace of nuclear energy While warnings over global warming and an end to nuclear energy have been basic tenets of the Green env...

National leaders reviewing the emergency response and communication during and after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9-11 are looking to the private sector to bolster readiness at the same time some local governments are considering 802.11 wireless technology, or WiFi, as the basis of their own emergency communications systems While previous a...

With two courtroom opponents offering different interpretations of a recent ruling, VeriSign's claims of antitrust and breach of contract against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the network's oversight body, came under the spotlight this week Earlier this week, A U.S. judge dismissed the antitrust claim from VeriSig...

Internet giant Yahoo has released an e-mail encryption scheme to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) aimed at wide adoption and avoidance of the unwanted and increasing volume of commercial and gimmicky e-mail known as spam However, the submission of Yahoo's DomainKeys antispam proposal comes in the wake of other recent proposals supported b...

Taiwanese chipmaker VIA has released details of its next-generation C5J Esther processor core, which is intended to bring security in addition to low heat and power consumption to small, low-priced embedded devices VIA, which unveiled the new power-efficient processor core at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California, this week, said the...

Even before the ink has dried on the US$47 billion merger of Cingular and AT&T Wireless, the cellular company spun off by AT&T in 2001, AT&T has announced a new deal with Sprint to provide AT&T-branded voice and data services to AT&T's 30 million customers over Sprint's wireless networks The five-year deal is AT&T's first step in reentering the wir...

In a somewhat surprising answer to U.S. counterparts Yahoo and Google, which recently have revealed plans to offer high volumes of storage space as part of their Web-based e-mail services, European Internet company Lycos Europe has upped the stakes in the e-mail-storage race by offering its own 1-GB e-mail service Lycos announced it will offer the ...

Officials at several U.S. state and federal law enforcement organizations have announced an initiative aimed squarely at use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks for child pornography More than 1,000 investigations have been opened in the United States involving the distribution and possession of child pornography. To date, there have been m...

A manned space rocket program funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen made its way to higher than 211,000 feet Thursday with the SpaceShipOne test flight, which reached about two-thirds of the 63-mile-high requirement for the US$10 million X Prize that is more about feat than finance Piloted by Mike Melvill and released from a companion craft, kno...

This week's U.S. congressional hearing on the loosening of DVD and other copying restrictions based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 might signal a change in attitude toward laws that have been the basis of infringement suits against companies and consumers Some, including lawmakers on the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Co...

Online music service Napster has announced a distribution deal with a UK independent label group to bolster its catalog of copyright-compliant tracks for Internet users. Roxio-owned Napster also signaled it still plans to enter the competitive UK market as early as late summer, while UK download rival Wippit announced its own distribution deal wit...

Looking to blur business lines the same way that technology has blurred traditional voice and data networks and solutions, MCI and Microsoft have announced a deepening of their relationship to deliver converged communication and collaboration technologies. The companies will codevelop new real-time applications, such as access to presence-based se...

A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be more careful, not quelled by the arrests, according to security experts. The biggest arrest came last Friday when Microsoft announced it had worked thr...

Following its official announcement of three new mobile semiconductors manufactured with a more efficient, 90-nanometer process, Intel's plans for more mobile chips were unofficially forecast through a mistaken posting of information by Dell The Dell Web site indicated that in addition to the three new Pentium M processors introduced by Intel this ...

IBM has outlined a new Lotus Workplace software environment aimed at joining Web and traditional PC computing to enable more efficient building, deployment and management of applications and data. Big Blue said its new environment and software products such as Lotus Workplace Messaging and Workplace Documents will give users a new way to develop, ...

AMD is pushing its Athlon 64 processor further into the mobile-computing world with new models designed to provide low-power performance in the thin and light notebook market The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced its Athlon 64 2800+ and 2700+, immediately available worldwide, offering 32-bit computing and seamless transition to 64-bit...

Microsoft has announced plans to tie its next-generation Longhorn client-side operating system to its Longhorn server operating system that is aimed squarely at corporate computing. The Redmond, Washington-based company said it will still be at least another year and a half before any Longhorn release, but the company signaled at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week in Seattle that the client and server operating systems will be aligned more closely...

A report from a group of Internet experts indicates a U.S. anticensorship Internet access program is employing keyword filtering for the foreign Web surfers it serves, resulting in overblocking, which many argue is a form of censorship in itself What may be worse is that the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau service's lack of security may leav...

Promising seamless connection of people, information and business processes in real-time, Microsoft has announced that its newest enterprise instant-messaging (IM) solution -- the Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 -- is available through a beta program and will be released later this year Microsoft said LCS 2005, code-named Vienna, will ...

It may be just in North America, just on the retail desktop and just a week, but challenger AMD is being credited with selling more of its processors in retail desktop machines than rival Intel for the week ended April 24th. In the findings from La Jolla, California-based Current Analysis, AMD accounted for 52 percent of retail desktop sales compa...