A draft report from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) covers some of the security and privacy risks of using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Agencies must decide how much information to include on the RFID tags and how to protect it. If the tag is tied to a back-end database, for example, […]

President George W. Bush is expected to sign legislation passed by the U.S. Congress outlawing Internet gambling in the United States. The law, called the Safe Port Act, was passed Saturday. The legislation could halve the $12 billion Internet gambling industry. Several companies have already suspended operations in the United States.
Red Herring, 2 October 2006 […]

Web programmers will have access to the core code for Yahoo’s e-mail program, although the company will retain control of the code dealing with usernames and passwords. According to Chad Dickerson of Yahoo’s software developer relations, “Yahoo is a very large company, but we can’t build every application that a user might want.” Yahoo Mail […]

Online movie rental service Netflix announced a contest that will give $1 million to the first person to improve the accuracy of movie reviews. The winner must come up with a recommendation system that beats the company’s current system by at least 10 percent. Netflix will offer 100 million movie ratings provided by its customers […]