Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

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SCIENCE

Brewing Up a Cure for Oil Addiction

Using the latest advances in genetics, two biofuel companies have developed a way to turn plant matter into fuel that can meet the nation's energy needs In a process similar to brewing beer, the firms use genetically engineered microbes to turn a broth of plant material, water and sugar into a biofuel that can be used to run today's automobiles....

Online Video Ads: Ready for Prime Time?

Online video watching is growing rapidly, and where the eyeballs go, you can expect advertisers to follow Sixty-five percent of U.S. broadband users watch video online at least occasionally -- a substantial increase over last year, when that number was 44 percent, according to a report released last Friday by JupiterResearch....

Cybercrime Costs US Economy at Least $117B Each Year

Cybercrime has become a threat to the nation's economic and security interests, according to a report released Monday by a Congressional research and investigation agency Cybercrime in its various forms -- computer crime, identity theft and phishing -- costs the U.S. economy some US$117.5 billion a year, reported the Government Accountability Offic...

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Advanced WindowsCare: Even Free Version Has Legs

Five million is a lot of anything That's why the folks at Boston-based software maker IObit caught my eye recently when they announced they had just cracked the cinco millones mark in downloads for their free Windows maintenance program Advanced WindowsCare Personal....

Online Sports Marketing: Setting Up for a Grand Slam

Revenues from advertising at sports sites on the Web will catapult in the next five years to more than US$1 billion, according to a report from a New York marketing research firm The report from eMarketer predicts sports sites will rake in $1.1 billion in ad revenues in 2011, up from $400 million in 2006....

User Postings and the Law: A Question of Structure

A ruling by a federal court in a case involving an online roommate matching service will hamstring Web innovators, a civil liberties group argued this week in papers filed with the judicial panel In a "friend of the court" brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Court of Appeals in California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued that "the ru...

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Corel VideoStudio v.11: A Small Step Forward

With the arrival of high-definition cameras, the push for video-to-go (V2G) and, of course, Windows Vista, makers of video editing software have been handed a ticket to introduce new versions of their products. Canadian application architect Corel has done just that with the new version of its VideoStudio VideoStudio, which entered the Corel corral...

Report: Mobile Search to Ring In Ad Billions

Revenue from search-related advertising on mobile phones will crack the US$2 billion mark in 2011, according to a report released last week by a market and trend analysis firm Search-related advertising -- which has made outfits like Google revenue powerhouses -- will grow mightily worldwide during this decade, from $6.8 million in 2006 to $2.4 bil...

Civil Liberties, ISPs and the FBI’s Letter-Writing Campaign

Citing information from documents obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information Act, a civil liberties group Tuesday maintained the federal agency has had chronic problems with its use of anti-terror letters to collect personal information about American citizens The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) also ass...

Video Game Advertising: Closing In on a Billion Bucks

Advertising inside video games will near the US$1 billion mark by the beginning of the next decade, according to a report released by a technology research firm In-game advertising will grow from $77.7 million in 2006 to $971.3 million in 2011, the Yankee Group report predicted....

WEEKEND FEATURE

Beware of Data Dumpster Divers

Some 30 percent of businesses in the UK leave data, some of it sensitive, on their PCs when they dispose of them, according to research findings released this week by computer maker Lenovo In the survey of 300 businesses commissioned by the UK-Ireland arm of the company, 29 percent of IT managers in large companies with 1,000 or more employees and ...

The Social Web’s Meager Promise for Retail Marketing

Social and community networks may be great hangouts for Web surfers who shop but not so great for retailers looking for virtual "ka-chings." That was one of the findings in a report released Saturday by JupiterResearch of New York, based on a survey conducted in March of more than 2,000 online consumers....

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Social Networks and the Citizen Journalist

The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web Outfits like Fox News, CNN, USA Today and MSNBC have begun to incorporate social networking tools into their sites, as well as actively soliciting content from their us...

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Is Social Networking Sharing or Sharecropping?

Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nicholas G. Carr, author of Does IT Matter?...

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Hiring With Biodata: Risky Business?

A method for screening new hires that counts the likes of Google among its adherents may create some fertile ground for future employment lawsuits That's the opinion of two attorneys writing the New York Law Journal this week....

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Avoiding a Photog’s Worst Nightmare With Polaroid’s Media Backup

If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media Backup Photo Edition (US$119 to $149)....

Boingo Serves Up All-You-Can-Eat Worldwide WiFi

International business travelers will be able to access the Internet for a flat monthly fee through more than 100,000 wireless hotspots around the world under a new service announced Monday by Boingo Wireless Boingo, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based aggregator of WiFi networks, said its new service will cost 29 euros, or US$39, per month for unlimited ...

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Raxco PerfectDisk Rx Suite Takes Your Disk to the Doc

There are lots of disk defraggers in the market, but Raxco PerfectDisk is one of the best that I've seen to date. Now the Gaithersburg, Md., company is expanding the scope of its flagship product to further improve computer performance and security Raxco's new product, PerfectDisk Rx Suite (US$39.95), is built around five components: a disk optimiz...

Light and Magnets: A New Spin on Chip Technology

A promising technology that involves controlling light with magnets could improve the speed and reduce the juice requirements of future computer chips The technology, developed by researchers at the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, combines knowledge from two budding research fiel...

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Free Your Pix From Your Hard Drive

A bane of shutterbugs everywhere is the question of what to do with their photos after shooting them In the days when film was king, it wasn't unusual to find closets with shoeboxes stuffed with prints or boxes of slides....

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