Global Bits
Below is a gathering of technology related news, information, and bits from all over the Internet.
I Want My TiVo PC
East is east and west is west, and ne’er the twain shall meet. A decade ago, Rudyard Kipling’s famous phrase aptly described the line between TVs and PCs. Early efforts at TV-savvy PCs were expensive, inelegant, and just plain underwhelming. Fast forward to 2005, and the line between the two has all but disappeared.
IBM to Encourage Employees to Be Teachers
International Business Machines Corp., worried the United States is losing its competitive edge, will financially back employees who want to leave the company to become math and science teachers.
Sprint To Test Mobile WiMAX
While not providing details about its long-term intentions, the cellular operator said it will conduct field trials of mobile WiMAX as well as tests to see if it interoperates with its other technology.
Study: Employees Ignore Security Risks
Enterprises need to do a better job of educating their workers about potential online security risks, according to security authority Trend Micro.
Survey: Broadband Prices Up, DSL Down
NEW YORK – The price gap between cable broadband service and phone carriers’ digital subscriber lines widened to an all-time high in August, according to a survey by SG Cowen.
HP now selling MySQL Network
San Francisco (IDGNS) – Hewlett-Packard (HP) is now reselling support services for MySQL AB’s open-source database, an HP spokeswoman has confirmed.
Apache Launches Open Source Software-Integration Project
Linux founder Linus Torvalds has found himself having to defend recent actions he has taken to protect the Linux trademark. He claims his efforts have been out of concern for intellectual-property rights and not as a way to cash in on Linux.
Apache Launches Open Source Software-Integration Project
The Apache Software Foundation on Monday launched an open-source project to develop application-integration middleware, a move that could lead to a viable alternative to vendor-supplied products used in service-oriented architectures.
Apache Foundation Launches Web Services Project
The Apache Foundation is rounding up support for its latest Web services effort, dubbed Synapse, to establish a framework for running multiple enterprise applications through open-source technology.
The Case of the Stolen Wi-Fi
Benjamin Smith III and Gregory Straszkiewicz both were arrested for allegedly stealing something no one could see, hear, or feel. That thing was valuable enough for victims to press charges in both cases. But the arrests were over something many consumers throw out their windows every day: a Wi-Fi signal.