The Kawasaki W650
As I wrote in my article Good First Bikes, the Kawasaki W650 is a different kind of retro bike, a standard easy to mistake at first glance for a late…
Honda
The year was 1978, and Soichiro Honda's engineering team had completed work on their most ambitious consumer product yet, the 1047cc, 24 valve, six cylinder "CBX." Honda drew upon their…
China Search Alliance accelerates expansion to meet Google’s penetration into China
China Search Alliance, a combination of more than 200 Internet portals, accelerated its expansion to meet the upcoming challenge from the global search giant , which is expected to officially…
The Harley-Davidson Sportster
In 30 years of riding, I have discovered some things about motorcycles. In this review I am going to discuss one of my favorite bikes, the Harley-Davidson Sportster. (The example…
The Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide
The motorcycles of the Dyna Glide line are the performance leaders amongst Harley's "big twins." They combine a Sportster front end with their own unique chassis. Dyna Glides are the…
Alert: New Sober variant rapidly spreading
Antivirus vendors reported the discovery of a new Sober variant Friday. Dubbed or , the new worm variant was first detected in Western Europe and is rapidly spreading as users…
Death Knell Sounds for Nullsoft, Winamp
The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few…
PlayStation 3 chip on track
Sony and partners IBM and Toshiba said in a joint statement that IBM is ready to begin pilot production next year on the "Cell" processor jointly developed by the companies.…
Microsoft pays hackers $250,000 to turn in their friends
I love this move by Microsoft: put a $250,000 bounty on the authors of the Sobig virus, and let the free market handle the problem for you. Might as well…
What is a script kiddie, hacker or cracker?
This is a short compilation of terms and definitions referring to script kiddies, hackers and crackers. A script kiddie is a term related to a person who is normally not…
Hacker Psych 101
Who are hackers, and what makes them tick? Two experts in the field of cyber forensics and psychology have some answers to that question. One is Marc Rogers, a behavioral…
China’s Optical Communications Market Recovers
The optical communications market in China has pulled out of a slowdown and got back onto a firm footing in the first half of the year, according to Wang Lei,…
What is the best tool?
Keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) technology has been a part of the network infrastructure for the past two decades, with the devices evolving into a more expansive role within the data center. When…
VoIP equipment and services
Fax over IP The TR1034 series of intelligent fax boards offers enterprise customers a line of high-performance intelligent fax boards with real-time fax-over-IP capabilities. The boards are useful in a…
E-rate funding restarts, but crisis continues
After a nearly four-month hiatus, funding for the federal E-rate program resumed Monday, but the program is still in trouble as new accounting rules threaten to paralyze the financing process.…
Cell connections head out to sea
Adam Sharples, a technology consultant in Manchester, England, was on the second evening of a weeklong Mediterranean cruise on the Island Escape last month when, on the way to dinner,…
Citrix to acquire SSL VPN start-up
Software maker Citrix Systems is getting into the secure remote access business. The company announced Tuesday that it's acquiring privately held security equipment maker Net6 for $50 million in cash.…
Lucent partners with Riverstone
Lucent Technologies said Thursday that it will partner with Ethernet equipment maker Riverstone Networks to round out its product lineup. Lucent plans to use Riverstone's Ethernet switches and routers to…
SBC links e-mail, voice messages, faxes
SBC Communications on Monday announced a new service that integrates voice messages, faxes and e-mails into a single mailbox that can be accessed from anywhere by phone or the Internet.…
Cisco switch products target small business
Cisco Systems is aggressively targeting small and midsize businesses with a set of Ethernet switching products designed to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of operating a network. On Monday,…