UPI Hi-Tech articles from July 2005

UPI Hi-Tech archives from July 2005

Wireless World: RFID technology spreading.
July 1, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 1 (UPI) -- A gambler goes to a Las Vegas casino and plunks down $2,500 to purchase chips to play poker. In the past, that player may have been able to cheat by slipping some counterfeit chips into...

Motorola, Samsung agree to curb litigation.
July 1, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- Korean electronics giant Samsung's announcement Friday that it will cooperate in certain areas with its U.S. rival, Motorola, seemed to surprise investors pleasantly, because they pushed the...

Apple's iPod a useful tool for criminals.
July 1, 2005... Byline: K. I. MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- Apple's iPod and other portable digital media devices have become as useful to criminals as they are to the general public, computer-security experts have discovered. "Similar to the...

Nano World: U.S. risks losing nano lead.
July 5, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Nanotechnology experts warn the United States could lose its global lead in nanotechnology. To continue U.S. leadership, the government and the industry must adopt a host of proposals,...

UPI View from the Top: 'Spim' joins spam.
July 5, 2005... Byline: CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER A 36-year-old sound engineer in Chicago uses instant messaging to juggle his full-time job, several freelance projects, a pod-casting volunteer gig, family and friends, "but within 40 seconds of logging in, I'm...

Video games boost student performance.
July 5, 2005... Byline: CATHERINE SHAROKY WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- Teachers in a Redmond, Ore., school have found by using video games in their classrooms, not only do students enjoy exercise more, they also produce better schoolwork and developed...

The Web: Phishing rattles consumers.
July 6, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 6 (UPI) -- Consumer confidence in the security of online financial services has declined considerably, in response to continual reports of identity theft and phishing scams, experts told UPI's The...

China RFID market poised for growth.
July 6, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 6 (UPI) -- Growth in the radio-frequency-identification market in China is expected to reach $616 million by 2009, up from the $146 million the segment generated in 2004, a new analysis suggests. ...

China pursues cross-straits IT development.
July 6, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 6 (UPI) -- Several articles in China's state-run media Wednesday suggest the latest developments in the mainland's strategy to reunite with Taiwan via information and telecommunication technologies....

Blog focuses on G8 science discussions.
July 7, 2005... Byline: ANDREW DAMSTEDT WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Journalists are using a Web log to provide live coverage of science-related issues emerging from this week's G8 economic summit. The blog, Sciencegate, located at scienceG8.com,...

Nano World: Nanofluidic transistors.
July 7, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created the first nanofluidic transistor, a device that electronically controls the flow of liquids through nanotubes and silica...

View from the Top: American broadband.
July 7, 2005... Byline: HAROLD J. RAVECHE The United States is failing to take the initiative to establish a national R&D mandate on broadband technologies, resulting in the loss of our competitive edge to other nations in Asia and Europe. Broadband...

Wireless World: WiFi in the sky.
July 8, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 8 (UPI) -- A business traveler on Austrian Airlines boards a flight from Vienna to Warsaw and, once airborne, he opens his IBM ThinkPad notebook computer and connects to the Boeing 767 aircraft's...

3G key to mobile game market in China.
July 8, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 8 (UPI) -- Mobile online gaming will amount to a $714 million market in China by 2008, more than a sevenfold increase from 2004, a new study by a Beijing research firm concludes. In 2004 China's...

Plugging the hole in Windows USB security.
July 8, 2005... Byline: K. I. MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- As new ways of transferring and sharing data become commonplace in the workplace, software developers are marketing products to corporations to fill the void left by Microsoft Windows in...

Networking: A new world of work.
July 11, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 11 (UPI) -- A new world of work is emerging, as networks enable employees to collaborate in ad-hoc teams assembled for specific projects. New collaboration software, developed by Microsoft and...

Tech ineffective without government reform.
July 11, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO SALZBURG, Austria, July 11 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. Technology can help government improve efficiency by making it easier for citizens to file official forms and cutting back on paper requirements, but e-government can...

Nano World: Nano-graphite may store H2 gas.
July 11, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- Graphite films only nanometers or billionths of a meter thick could help store hydrogen in an inexpensive, easily manufactured, lightweight and nontoxic manner, an international team of...

Technology can be part of African aid.
July 12, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO SALZBURG, Austria, July 12 (UPI) -- Part 2 of 2. Access to computer technology and computer literacy are vital for any nation, rich or poor, to grow economically in the coming years. As leaders of the world's...

Online service to offer movies before DVD.
July 12, 2005... Byline: LISA PICKOFF-WHITE WASHINGTON, July 12 (UPI) -- Revelations Entertainment, an independent Hollywood movie distributor, has formed a new online movie service called ClickStar, which will offer a limited selection of downloadable...

View from the Top: Security and profits.
July 12, 2005... Byline: STEPHEN M. DIAMOND Broadband has been widely adopted as a wireline Internet access technology, but mobile broadband is just beginning to take off. Consumers worldwide are starting to use mobile phones, personal digital...

The Web: E-mails from summer campers.
July 13, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 13 (UPI) -- In the past, when a parent sent a child off to summer camp in June, it usually took most of the season before that child sent a card or letter back home. The Internet is providing a...

Intel's legal woes unlikely to hurt bottom line.
July 13, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Intel's legal woes continue to mount, but despite the antitrust charges facing the world's largest chipmaker across three continents, most analysts do not expect the company to lose its top...

Sides agree on DTV transition requirement.
July 14, 2005... Byline: LYDELL C. BRIDGEFORD WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Television and cable-industry insiders have told Congress they are firmly committed to Dec. 31, 2008, as the cutoff date to end TV analog broadcasts, but the two groups are...

Apple's stellar earnings might not last.
July 14, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Apple's robust earnings report for the latest quarter surprised few, given the runaway success of its ubiquitous iPod, yet there already is concern sales of the digital music devices will...

Analyst panel supports Grokster decision.
July 14, 2005... Byline: K. I. MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Industry analysts see the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in MGM vs. Grokster generally as opening the door to legitimate peer-to-peer file-sharing and focusing the content industry...

Nano World: $2 billion market in nanopore.
July 14, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 14 (UPI) -- Sponges with pores only nanometers in diameter could help lead to advanced fuel cells in hydrogen-powered cars, as well as super-coolants to keep perishable drugs fresh and devices to...

PAS sector continues growth in China.
July 15, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 15 (UPI) -- Some analysts warn that 3G may spell the end for PHS/PAS wireless technology, but its low cost to service providers and user affordability has resulted in continued subscriber growth in...

Wireless World: WiFi 'vampires' attack.
July 15, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 15 (UPI) -- If a squatter moved in next door, and ran electrical extension cords from his living room to an outlet on your patio, you might object to his obvious pirating of your electricity --...

Clinton joins video game censoring rally.
July 15, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- Video games are big business for the computer industry, from software monolith Microsoft to start-up companies run by individual game programmers, yet as the content of many games becomes...

Networking: Foiling e-document hackers.
July 18, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 18 (UPI) -- A worker sends an office colleague an e-mail with a corporate document attached, but the seeming routine message turns out to harbor a malicious passenger, because the attachment contains...

Versatel buy-out to strengthen Tele2.
July 18, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Versatel International Telecom confirmed Monday it will be sold to Swedish rival Tele2, finally putting an end to rumors the Dutch company will be sold off to a European telecom group. ...

States create voluntary online tax system.
July 18, 2005... Byline: LISA PICKOFF-WHITE WASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- Beginning Oct. 1, at least 18 states will collect taxes from online sales voluntarily, offering a year of amnesty to companies that have not reported on online transactions in the...

Is Ningbo Bird's goose cooked?
July 19, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 19 (UPI) -- Ningbo Bird, China's top domestic mobile handset seller, is one of several firms facing intensified competition as the stakes have been raised in the country's high-tech market. China...

Computer sales not leading to profits.
July 19, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- For computer manufacturers, the latest report confirming a surge in global demand for personal computers should have been heartening, but one of the biggest beneficiaries of the seemingly...

Nano World: Nanotech tools a $700M market.
July 19, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 19 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. The instruments and tools needed to work on the nanoscale could, even when excluding the semiconductor industry, will form a $700 million market by 2008, experts told UPI's...

The Web: 'Podcasts' are soaring.
July 20, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 20 (UPI) -- Want to listen to your favorite talk radio at your leisure, and not according to a schedule set by some programming director? Apparently, a lot of people do. Search engine requests for...

Analysis: Baidu decision a win for IPR.
July 20, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 20 (UPI) -- Intellectual-property rights scored a small victory Wednesday when state media reported Baidu.com, a Chinese search engine, agreed to remove links to sites selling pirated music. ...

Emerging markets pushing cell-phone growth.
July 20, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Cell phones no longer are rare status symbols in developing countries. In fact, mobile-handset manufacturers worldwide should be looking to emerging markets for the bulk of their sales in...

IT firm digitizing the compliance process.
July 21, 2005... Byline: LYDELL C. BRIDGEFORD WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- IT executives at a Fairfax, Va., firm are betting their new software will win over financial officers who are struggling to handle the costs of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

Sony's bid for computer-game creativity.
July 21, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Sony's financial performance over the past few months has been disappointing to many investors, but the company's reaffirmation of its commitment to the gaming business is expected to keep...

System allows fan season e-ticket sales.
July 21, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Many sports fans holding season tickets sometimes must miss games and thereby forfeit the cost of the seats, but now Ticketmaster has developed a system to connect season-ticket holders...

Perfect 10 tests copyright law.
July 21, 2005... Byline: K. I. MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Perfect 10, an online and print-based adult-entertainment company, is testing the limits of copyright-infringement liability in a series of lawsuits against Internet search engines Google...

Wireless World: Mobile WiMax coming soon.
July 22, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 22 (UPI) -- A GMC Yukon Denali motors down the road, while the passengers inside simultaneously receive mobile calls over the Internet, and streaming video at up to 2.5 Mbps, on a variety of devices....

Nano World: Nanotools face challenges.
July 22, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 22 (UPI) -- Part 2 of 2. The market for the instruments and tools needed to work on the nanoscale faces substantial challenges in the future, experts told UPI's Nano World. Atomic-force...

Internet firms flourishing, but no boom yet.
July 22, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- Business has been booming for some of the biggest names on the Internet in recent months, but a return to a tech-buying frenzy of the late 1990s seems unlikely anytime soon. "There's...

View from the Top: The broadband race.
July 22, 2005... Byline: STEPHEN KILLEEN Most U.S. broadband customers think they have a good thing going. As long as they can surf news sites and download their favorite music and games at 1-3 megabits per second, they feel as though they have entered...

Analysis: Google nudging changes in China.
July 25, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 25 (UPI) -- The announcement last week that Google, the world's premier search engine, had chosen Beijing as the location for its eighth research and development center marks an important...

Podcasting changing the face of politics.
July 25, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- First, it was blogs. Then, it was Meetup.com. Now, the newest technology to combine the Internet and politics is slowly starting to creep into the mainstream: podcasting. "I'm pretty...

Networking: Storage-software sales soaring.
July 25, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 25 (UPI) -- Sales last quarter rose substantially at major developers of networking and storage software -- SAP, EMC and Microsoft, among others -- as companies purchase software to maintain the...

China mobile makers plot summer strategy.
July 26, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, July 26 (UPI) -- The dog days of summer may be the slow season for cell-phone sales, but Chinese handset makers are launching plans to halt their sliding market share. Companies including Amoi, Ningbo...

Nano World: A nano DNA-delivery system.
July 26, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 26 (UPI) -- Scientists have used silica nanoparticles loaded with DNA to deliver genes safely into mouse brains, a technique that could lead to gene therapies able to repair cells more safely and...

Mobile phones boost global telcom profits.
July 26, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, boasting the world's highest number of broadband...

The Web: The growing threat of spyware.
July 27, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 27 (UPI) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- the New Deal-era government agency designed to restore confidence in the Great Depression-shattered banking system of the United States -- is...

View from the Top: The broadband boom.
July 27, 2005... Byline: FARAJ AALAEI From early morning calls to Europe to very late night meetings with China, sales manager Mike Kallbrier works around the clock from his home office to communicate with his clients, using his digital subscriber line....

Mobiles no parental substitute for kids' safety.
July 27, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) -- Marketing cell phones to children in the United States is getting out of hand, and the government should take steps to keep it under control, according to a group of academics and consumer...

Yahoo! buys widget design firm.
July 28, 2005... Byline: ANNE PESSALA WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Yahoo! has announced its purchase of the company that designed Konfabulator, a program that produces desktop applications called widgets. The deal was completed Tuesday, the company...

Updated telecommunications law proposed.
July 28, 2005... Byline: K. I. MARSHALL WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- One of the sponsors of a new telecommunications bill in the Senate said this week that only by opening broadband markets to greater competition will the United States remain a leader in...

Panel: U.S. falling behind in broadband.
July 28, 2005... Byline: LARA SALAHI AND EVA A. SYLWESTER WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- The United States has been the leader in telecommunications technology ever since Samuel F. B. Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought?" over copper wire...

Nano World: Nano silver fights infections.
July 29, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) -- Silver nanoparticles could help fight hospital-related infections that afflict 2 million patients and lead to 90,000 deaths in the United States each year, experts told UPI's Nano World....

Wireless World: Anti-theft RFID clothing.
July 29, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, July 29 (UPI) -- Electronic anti-theft devices have been installed in vehicles cars for years -- such as the LoJack, which gained fame during countless TV commercials. Soon, similar technology will be...

View from Top: Biz VoIP gains momentum.
July 29, 2005... Byline: DOUG JOHNSON Driven by the pressures to reduce capital expenditures and increase communication features and functionality, businesses are rapidly embracing the adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol phone services to unify...