Port scanning, the practice of sniffing for computers with unprotected and open ports, isn't much of a harbinger of an attack, a University of Maryland researcher said Monday.

Michel Cukier, an assistant professor at the College Park, Maryland-based school, said that contrary to common thought, few port scans actually result in an

Prices for DRAMs and NAND-based flash memories fell last week amid lackluster demand and other factors in the marketplace, according to Gartner Inc.

DRAM contract prices have fallen on average by about 7.8 percent across all densities over the last month, according to Gartner. And last week, the DRAM spot market was

Call it a municipal status symbol in the digital age: a city blanketed by a wireless Internet network, accessible at competitive prices throughout the town's homes, cafes, offices, and parks.

Tempe, the Phoenix suburb that is home to Arizona State University, is due to have wireless Internet available for all of its

A security firm said it has cracked the Sober worm, and uncovered the URLs the long-running worm will use in January to update itself to a new variant.

Helsinki-based F-Secure is the second vendor this week to claim that it had dug up new information on the two-year-old Sober clan; on Wednesday,

Linksys will collaborate with Telabria to deliver VoIP services over a European WiMAX-class broadband network, the companies recently announced.
Telabria's Skylink service delivers symmetric broadband at speeds up to 10Mbps to customers in South East England, using a next-generation hybrid network of fiber and radio and completely bypassing the copper local loop.

MTV Networks Inc. said Tuesday it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to launch early next year.

The service, dubbed URGE, will be integrated into the next version of the software maker's Windows Media Player and offer more than 2 million tracks for sale individually or as part

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citizen Watch Co. Ltd. and E Ink Corp. on Monday (Dec. 12) demonstrated what the companies claim is the world's first flexible clock using an electronic paper display.

The clock is based on E Ink’s paper display technology, dubbed Imaging Film. With a thickness of 3.0-mm, a weight

At Interop this week, networking technology will enjoy more popularity than it has in at least five years.

The trade show, which takes place Dec. 12-16 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, will host over 140 vendors. Industry diversity will be on display, from giants such as Microsoft

BellSouth Corp. has launched a residential VOIP service by reselling 8x8 Inc.'s Packet8 service, Light Reading has learned.

The service, called BellSouth Digital Phone Service, has already been launched in one market -- Gainesville, Fla. -- and will be rolled out in more areas in the coming weeks, according to a BellSouth sales

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest supplier of information and communications technology products last year, according to a report released Monday.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 30 countries (including the United States) working together for democracy and a market economy, reports an increase in