In emergencies, can mobile network overload be prevented?
Within minutes of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay Area, the number of mobile phone calls on the Verizon Wireless network skyrocketed.
Stories by Todd R. Weiss
SCO gets 'potential' $US36M offer to sell Unix business
While still fighting in the courts and fresh from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, The SCO Group could soon be selling its steadily-declining Unix business.
Long-lived Mars rovers to keep on roving
They've dealt with software glitches, a damaged and useless front wheel, and fierce dust storms that cut their electrical power production. Still, the two NASA Mars rovers continue to explore the Red Planet and beam back scientific data.
Ubuntu to release v7.10 of its desktop, server OSes
The latest desktop and server editions of the free, open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system will be released on Thursday. They will offer a range of improvements designed for their particular users.
McBride: Reports of SCO's death greatly exaggerated
If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group, no one seems to have told Darl McBride, the software vendor's president and CEO.
SCO's McBride: We're not dead yet
If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group, no one apparently told the company's CEO and president, Darl C. McBride.
An out-of-this-world IT job: Mars rover driver
Imagine driving your car to work by sitting in your chair in front of your home computer.
SCO bankruptcy filing delays start of SCO-Novell trial
The start of a scheduled trial between The SCO Group and Novell has been postponed indefinitely because of SCO's just-announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganisation.
IBM joins OpenOffice.org to widen its reach
IBM has gotten so much from the OpenOffice.org office suite to enhance its own products that the company has decided to finally give back in a big way: It's joining the open-source project and will contribute code, developers and other resources for free.
McBride says SCO isn't dead yet, despite legal loss
For most of his career in the IT industry, Darl McBride was a largely unknown executive working at Novell and several other companies. But nine months after he joined The SCO Group as its president and CEO in June 2002, McBride's name became a household word in the IT world. That's when Lindon, Utah-based SCO filed a US$5 billion lawsuit against IBM, alleging that it improperly contributed some of SCO's Unix intellectual property for use in Linux.
As dust storms ease, Mars rovers return to exploration
The two Mars rovers that have been carefully conserving critical power supplies since June, when the summer dust-storm season began on the red planet, are now springing back to work as the storms subside.
Cisco introduces new 802.11n wireless access point
Cisco Systems is diving into the emerging 802.11n wireless market with its first 802.11n-based Ethernet access point (AP), the Aironet 1250, which will offer higher speeds and greater reliability for a wide range of enterprise-ready wireless devices.
NASA photo, video collection to be digitized
With a 50-year collection of photos, videos, films and other material, NASA's archives from manned and unmanned space missions is almost as vast as outer space.
Study: Low-priced Google office suite not enterprise ready
At just US$50 a year per user, Google's Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) hosted office productivity suite could be one of the cheapest mistakes a large business makes.
Zoho office suite adds offline editing functions
The free Web browser-based Zoho office productivity suite is about to become more useful and flexible. Zoho developers are adding capabilities that enable offline editing and storage of Zoho-created documents for PC and Mac users.