A new collaborative Web site offers tips on blogging more anonymously for people who live in countries that restrict free speech -- or for those who want to write freely about their companies without the risk of getting fired.
 
The wiki, launched this week, is called anoniblog.

The site

LONDON — The industry is honing in on a compromise proposal for the contentious IEEE 802.11n next generation WLAN standard, and a deal could be struck next week at the task group’s meeting in Hawaii.

On Wednesday (Jan. 11), the Joint Proposal (JP) team representing the final three TGn proposal groups (TGnSync,

The Outlook and Exchange vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft Tuesday has the potential to become a much more virulent problem than the long-hyped Windows Metafile bug patched last week, said one of the e-mail flaw's discoverers Wednesday.

"What I find bizarre is that there's still all this focus on the WMF [Windows Metafile]

A new version of Net phone calling software from Skype Technologies SA, a division of online auction pioneer eBay Inc., has won over critics that found many problems with earlier iterations of the same software.
 
Skype 2.0 became available for the general public earlier this week. Improvements from earlier Skype

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — While the battle is far from over in the next-generation DVD wars, one analyst predicts that Blu-ray Disc technology will prevail and become the eventual winner.

“It's time to put a stake in the ground regarding the future of the high-definition DVD format: Blu-ray has won,” declared

Apple Computer Tuesday updated its QuickTime media player to fix eight critical security vulnerabilities that leave both the player and the company's popular iTunes software open to attack.

The bugs in QuickTime, Apple revealed in a security advisory, are in how the player parses a number of image file formats, including .gif,

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars said Wednesday it has agreed to include radios that receive Sirius Satellite Radio as standard equipment in its luxury cars sold in the United States.

Under the exclusive deal, car buyers would also got a lifetime subscription to the digital radio service that offers more than 125 channels of

LONDON — Microcontroller chip company Microchip Technology Inc. has agreed to provide German automobile maker BMW AG with access to patents covering the use of microcontrollers and microprocessors in battery-monitoring sensors, including conventional 12-volt vehicles. The technology is covered by the name SmartShunt. Microchip (Chandler, Ariz.) acquired the licensed technology as part of the

Wi-Fi has spread from office and home to Internet café and fast food franchises. Now, it is moving into supermarkets -- in this case specifically to the 360-store Stop & Shop chain in the Northeast.

ICOA Inc. said Wednesday that it has been chosen by the supermarket chain to power its Wi-Fi

Novell Inc. on Tuesday launched an open-source project for developing technology that provides application security for Linux.
In unveiling the project, the Waltham, Mass., company donated core components of its AppArmor framework. AppArmor is enterprise level application security software that Novell says can be deployed in hours and maintained cost-effectively without the