Articles by Gene J. Koprowski

A new survey released last week by Strategy Analytics indicates that the "style" of a mobile phone may be the key feature that users rely on when gauging their satisfaction with mobile phone technology The study analyzes mobile device buyer satisfaction across 20 "critical product attributes" for customers in the U.S. and Western Europe....

A survey of certified fraud examiners says that the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) law -- passed in the wake of scandals at technology companies like MCI/Worldcom -- is an effective tool in fraud identification, though few believe it is actually changing the culture of business The survey, conducted by Oversight Systems, Inc., based in Atlanta, called 2005 O...

A leading computer security analyst is predicting that even as companies implement more IT security to prevent Internet hackers from tapping their networks, there will be increased theft of secure data by insiders, like employees The data security forecast by Joseph Ansanelli, chief executive officer of the data security firm Vontu, indicates that ...

The usage of ".US" domain extensions is sharply rising, with organizations switching to alternative top level domain extensions rather than ".com" to bolster their online brand with American audiences, according to Sedo.com, a leading online marketplace for the sale of domain names, based in Cambridge, Mass According to data from the ".US" registry...

A national survey by The Ernst & Young Consumer Trends Center predicts that online sales this holiday shopping season will increase, as consumers seek to combat high gas prices by eschewing trips to the traditional shopping mall A copy of the survey provided to the E-Commerce Times indicated that, overall, the 2005 retail holiday sales increase for...

A forthcoming survey -- commissioned by Sun Microsystems -- indicates that 50 percent of consumers have promised themselves that if they are victims of identity theft at a particular financial institution, they will take their online business elsewhere An executive summary of the survey -- to be released in the coming days -- was provided to TechNe...

House Democrats today will introduce a new "innovation" strategy for the U.S. economy in a speech at the National Press Club by House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a spokesman for the leader's office, Russ Kelley, told TechNewsWorld Pelosi will be announcing the "Democrats' new 'Innovation Agenda -- A Commitment to Competitiveness...

A national survey released today indicates that instant messaging (IM) has grown 19 percent since last year and is penetrating the United States market as deeply as e-mail -- with many Americans sending as many, if not more, IMs than they do e-mails What's more, at-work and mobile messaging usage have gone mainstream, according to the third annual ...

The technology battle between data and voice communications is intensifying, and data appears to have the momentum now. But, experts say, voice may be making a comeback someday soon as industry's favorite application A new survey, released mid-October by J.D. Power and Associates, indicates that e-mail addresses have become today's equivalent of y...

The controversy over the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to allow wiretapping of Internet telephone calls continues -- as experts on both sides of the question battle it out in federal court and in the court of public opinion Last week, an alliance of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephony providers and technology makers -- incl...

Halloween has passed, and Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away. The Christmas shopping season is well upon American shoppers -- and retailers American retailers are turning to radio frequency identification technology -- RFID tags -- to ensure that in-demand items are in stock this holiday season, hoping to bolster end-of-year revenues, experts te...

A white paper published this week by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony The document, entitled "The Metaphysics of Communications Reform," raises concerns that...

A white paper published yesterday by the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank in Chicago, is critical of a "discussion draft" of legislation released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce concerning a new regulatory regime for Internet telephony The document, entitled "The Metaphysics of Communications Reform," raises concerns that...

Government -- and industry -- executives are moving forward with plans to increase the use of authentication technologies, and prevent fraud online. The Direct Marketing Association, based in Chicago, last week issued a set of rules for its members, and the federal government, a few days earlier, did the same for financial institutions Trouble is, ...

This fall, campus police at the University of California, Berkeley, retrieved a stolen notebook computer that contained a cache of prominent names, Social Security Numbers and other personal data. This wasn't a trove of just a few names, though, police said. Rather, there was information on nearly 100,000 students, alumni and applicants to Cal, one of the nation's most prestigious public universities...

Can state laws -- like the one signed in late September by Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar (R-Calif.) -- stop phishing scams? Probably not, experts tell TechNewsWorld. In fact, public policy experts say, confidence trickers are already willfully breaking a number of laws, and fear of punishment by authorities has done nothing to deter them yet "The Cali...

The boy who hacked celebrity heiress and vixen Paris Hilton's mobile phone received a sentence of 11 months of detention in a juvenile facility in Massachusetts last month In another, separate hacking case this fall, involving juvenile defendants in Florida, the Bay County school administration, in Panama City, Fla., recommended that three students...

A number of non-profit alliances are actively promoting home networking technologies, perhaps providing the momentum to make the "smart home" a reality in the coming years, experts tell TechNewsWorld The allied industry groups come from a number of fields, and include the Continental Automated Building Association, the Internet Home Alliance, the H...

The latest emerging IT security threat to the enterprise -- viruses conveyed by instant messaging (IM) technology -- is increasingly taking up the time of security experts, who are implementing an array of solutions to staunch the flow of malware, sources tell TechNewsWorld "IM and P2P are growing in popularity as delivery mechanisms for viruses, s...

Electronics industry companies are moving forward aggressively with plans to promote the recycling of used mobile phones -- as well as PDAs and other devices -- which contain toxic byproducts, including lead, cadmium and beryllium, experts tell TechNewsWorld CEOs of leading firms in the electronics manufacturing industry recently testified before C...