by STEVE LOHR New York Times As technical problems interrupted computer services provided by Amazon for a second day on Friday, industry analysts said the troubles would prompt many companies to reconsider relying on remote computers beyond their control. “This is a wake-up call for cloud computing,” said Matthew Eastwood, an analyst for the research [...]
by Kurt Kleiner, MIT Technology Review Last week the FBI took down the Coreflood botnet—a major network of zombie computers that had been used to steal personal information worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the bust relied on an important weakness of conventional botnets—that they are controlled by a few central computers. Take down [...]
by Glenn Chapman, Google News IBM is testing smartphone software designed to predict traffic jams and warn motorists before they even take to the roads. IBM said late Tuesday that its employees in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas of Northern California have been testing technology that “will ultimately help drivers around the world” [...]
by Jacob Aron NewScientist Tech Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres. Researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Northwestern University have developed [...]
by Rex Graham Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world’s computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have appreciated: the digital equivalent of a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times a [...]