The direction of technological innovation has gone off track by focusing on overly complex systems, losing sight of the goal widespread adoption, a panel of experts said Tuesday evening.
Using the promise of a video of Timothy McVeigh's execution, a hacker tried to entice chat room users to download a common SubSeven Remote Access Trojan, according to anti-virus software company SaferSite.com Inc.
The peer-to-peer business model started to receive special attention from the business world only last spring, when venture capital firms invested in several startups, an investor said Wednesday at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference in San Francisco.
The ASP (application service provider) market will undergo a painful shakeout in the next year, industry observers said at the ASPWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday.