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As a legendary poet-songster once insightfully intoned, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but it helps if you have an Oregon Scientific regional weather station ...

Some 25 million households in the nation have a wireless network, and that number is growing. So, too, is the number of home networks without a lick of security on them, according to a report released last week by ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y ...

Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency's ability to fight crime and terrorism is "overblown," according to Coleen Rowley ...

At the risk of revealing my age, I can remember when a 10 gigabyte hard drive seemed enormous. Of course those were the days before PCs became vaults for music collections, family photo albums and home video libraries ...

A coalition of some 600 organizations opposed to a scheme by America Online and Goodmail Systems to "tax" e-mail claimed on Monday that supporters of the plan have a long-term agenda to make everyone pay for exchanging electronic missives over the Net ...

Three computer researchers created a stir Wednesday when they released a paper at a conference in Pisa, Italy, describing how to infect Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags with a computer virus, but the likelihood of a digital disease rampaging through the world's supply chains is slim, at least for now ...

Let me set the record straight. I've never been a fan of tablet computers. If the urge to write on an LCD strikes me, I've always found my Palm Tungsten handheld sufficient for that desire. Nevertheless, when Motion Computing of Austin, Texas, introduced the LS800 tablet, it tantalized me ...

The Amazons and Wal-Marts of the Web understand the importance of a good on-site search engine, but for smaller concerns the technology can be problematic. Oftentimes those businesses don't make the connection between site search and customer satisfaction and even if they do, they don't have the money to develop a robust technology for themselves ...

A majority of Web sites fail to meet the search desires of their visitors, according to a report prepared by Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm Forrester Research ...

Clipboard extenders are among the most useful applications in the Windows world. How many times have you overwritten something in the clipboard that you later wish you had available? Clipboard extenders solve that problem by saving everything you cut or copy from your screen and letting you access it when you need it ...

The four anchors of the open source world -- Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python, or the so-called LAMP stack -- proved most reliable in a study released Monday by Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools ...

As an industry, delivery of television programming into the home over broadband connections is barely off the ground, but it's already showing signs of consolidation ...

With Apple adding video to its iPod line of digital media players, the scramble is on to provide watchers with content to occupy their eyeballs ...

Broadband penetration of the nation's rural areas has more than doubled since 2003, but it still lags behind urban and suburban areas by a substantial margin, according to a survey released this week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project ...

Despite some chest beating by the entertainment industry Wednesday over the shutdown of one of the biggest index servers on the eDonkey network, a raid by Belgian and Swiss police seems to have had little impact on file-sharing traffic ...

Somewhere between no-frills Craigslist and intricate eBay lies the new e-commerce offering introduced by Santa Monica, Calif.-based TagWorld last week ...

Internet companies doing business in countries that suppress civil liberties need a code of conduct to soften the controversy they're fueling by doing business with authoritarian regimes ...

Nico Popp can see the day when proving who you are on the faceless Internet will be as easy as using a picture I.D. in the real world ...

If there's anything that can be called heresy in free-for-all cyberspace it's the notion that people should pay for e-mail, but that didn't stop a few heretics this week from announcing monetized e-mail initiatives ...

A maker of software to manage music CD copying has agreed to make its protection scheme less vulnerable to computer crackers. After the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released an open letter raising security concerns about the MediaMax application, its Phoenix, Ariz.-based developer, SunnComm Technologies, announced it would take several remedial steps:...