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A new survey released last week by Strategy Analytics indicates that the "style" of a mobile phone may be the key feature that users rely on when gauging their satisfaction with mobile phone technology ...

A survey of certified fraud examiners says that the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) law -- passed in the wake of scandals at technology companies like MCI/Worldcom -- is an effective tool in fraud identification, though few believe it is actually changing the culture of business ...

A leading computer security analyst is predicting that even as companies implement more IT security to prevent Internet hackers from tapping their networks, there will be increased theft of secure data by insiders, like employees ...

The usage of ".US" domain extensions is sharply rising, with organizations switching to alternative top level domain extensions rather than ".com" to bolster their online brand with American audiences, according to Sedo.com, a leading online marketplace for the sale of domain names, based in Cambridge, Mass ...

A national survey by The Ernst & Young Consumer Trends Center predicts that online sales this holiday shopping season will increase, as consumers seek to combat high gas prices by eschewing trips to the traditional shopping mall ...

A forthcoming survey -- commissioned by Sun Microsystems -- indicates that 50 percent of consumers have promised themselves that if they are victims of identity theft at a particular financial institution, they will take their online business elsewhere ...

House Democrats today will introduce a new "innovation" strategy for the U.S. economy in a speech at the National Press Club by House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a spokesman for the leader's office, Russ Kelley, told TechNewsWorld ...

A national survey released today indicates that instant messaging (IM) has grown 19 percent since last year and is penetrating the United States market as deeply as e-mail -- with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IMs than they do e-mails ...

The technology battle between data and voice communications is intensifying, and data appears to have the momentum now. But, experts say, voice may be making a comeback someday soon as industry's favorite application ...

The controversy over the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow wiretapping of Internet telephone calls continues -- as experts on both sides of the question battle it out in federal court and in the court of public opinion ...

Halloween has passed, and Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away. The Christmas shopping season is well upon American shoppers -- and retailers ...

A white paper published this week by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony ...

A white paper published yesterday by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony ...

Government -- and industry -- executives are moving forward with plans to increase the use of authentication technologies, and prevent fraud online. The Direct Marketing Association, based in Chicago, last week issued a set of rules for its members, and the federal government, a few days earlier, did the same for financial institutions ...

This fall, campus police at the University of California, Berkeley, retrieved a stolen notebook computer that contained a cache of prominent names, Social Security Numbers and other personal data. This wasn't a trove of just a few names, though, police said. Rather, there was information on nearly 100,000 students, alumni and applicants to Cal, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities...

Can state laws -- like the one signed in late September by Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar (R-Calif.) -- stop phishing scams? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld. In fact, public policy experts say, confidence trickers are already willfully breaking a number of laws, and fear of punishment by authorities has done nothing to deter them yet ...

The boy who hacked celebrity heiress and vixen Paris Hilton's mobile phone received a sentence of 11 months of detention in a juvenile facility in Massachusetts last month ...

A number of non-profit alliances are actively promoting home networking technologies, perhaps providing the momentum to make the "smart home" a reality in the coming years, experts tell TechNewsWorld ...

The latest emerging IT security threat to the enterprise -- viruses conveyed by instant messaging (IM) technology -- is increasingly taking up the time of security experts, who are implementing an array of solutions to staunch the flow of malware, sources tell TechNewsWorld ...

Electronics industry companies are moving forward aggressively with plans to promote the recycling of used mobile phones -- as well as PDAs and other devices -- which contain toxic byproducts, including lead, cadmium and beryllium, experts tell TechNewsWorld ...