A group of technologists recently established the Open Source Hardware Association to promote the creation and sharing of hardware or electronic designs.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2012
Google has received a patent for technology that would enable it to deliver advertising based on what it calls "environment conditions." IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2012
Whitfield Diffie, a pioneer of public-key cryptography, told the recent Black Hat Europe conference that a good plan to secure software is needed in the age of...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' plan to introduce hundreds of new generic top-level domains next year may be moving too fast, said U.S....IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2011
Advocates of free software are hailing a decision by a German court to prevent a DSL router vendor from blocking a software maker from altering the device's Linux...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 17, 2011
XBRL U.S. has created a competition to encourage the development of better tools that work with the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard for financial...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2011
U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are lobbying ICANN to impose more stringent regulations on registrars for generic top-level domains.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2010
A pair of recently released reports, authored by University of Chicago professor Dennis Carlton, says that introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) will not force...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2009
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are now being used by governments as another way to counter opposition, warns Arbor Networks senior security researcher...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2009
Congressional Republicans have introduced the Internet Security Act, legislation in the U.S. House and Senate that would require Internet service providers (ISPs)...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2009