Emerging Tech

The fight over DVD (digital versatile disc) de-scrambling and the legal issues involved will seemingly not go away, as the fight gained a new participant this week when a tool to help decrypt DVDs was released onto the Internet.

Oracle Corp. is making more promises. This time, CEO and president Larry Ellison has stated the company will save US$3 billion in 2002, the third year of the company

The move from 10Mbps or 100Mbps Ethernet to gigabit Ethernet is frequently perceived as requiring a costly upgrade from copper cable to fibre-optic cable.

Google Inc. made its latest foray into the wireless Internet world with the launch of a site...

I happened the other day across a very interesting TV program about life in the U.S. in 1900. During this PBS show, one of the commentators relayed a variation on the often quoted notion from a U.S. Patent Office director who said, in essence, that everything which could be invented had been.

High-tech analysts look at the big picture of the economy and the stock market, and deliver predictions about the future of IT investment.

Cisco Systems Inc. has unveiled IP videoconferencing products that let users conduct videoconferences with up to 400 simultaneous participants.

Hackers now have a new tag in the U.K.: cyberterrorists. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, people who...