It is now three months since SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM, and a month since SCO declared "Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX," yet we still don't fully understand SCO's claims. BYTE.com contributing editor Trevor Marshall recently sat down with SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag, and was told that SCO not only "owns" AIX, IRIX and Linux, but it also has its eyes on BSD.
Mon, 16 Jun 2003

Cleaning Your URLs
Clean URLs are short, understandable, permanent, and devoid of implementation details. Here's how to keep your Web hierarchies sparkling clean.
Mon, 16 Jun 2003

Cache Coherency: Now More than Ever
Without cache coherency methods, data corruption and lousy system performance are not far away.
Mon, 2 Jun 2003

Bluetooth Security
Is Bluetooth any more secure than 802.11b? Or are the days of costly cellphone and PDA viruses nearly upon us?
Mon, 19 May 2003

Solving the 3G Data Management Problem
3G wireless networks have been slow in development. Business functions such as service provisioning, assurance and billing have proven difficult to implement, key technologies like content delivery networks are still being hammered out, and there's a dearth of compelling applications. Could better data management be the key to progress?
Mon, 5 May 2003

When Robots Attack
Humans attack computers on a routine basis, while stories of machines attacking humans are still science fiction. But computers do attack their own kin. How can we deal with this threat?
Mon, 21 Apr 2003

Intelligent Distributed Surveillance Systems
Human beings watching video screens can become fatigued after only 30 minutes, because they must pay attention even when nothing important is happening. Automated surveillance systems have the potential to ease this burden, but only if they can keep false positives to a minimum. A recent IEE conference offered a survey of the state of the art in intelligent distributed surveillance systems.
Mon, 7 Apr 2003

Unreasonable Facsimiles
Why are the cycles of obsolescence so brief for computer hardware? Why does our software grow ever more bloated? Perhaps it has to do with the use of graphics-intensive simulated reality environments for even the simplest tasks.
Mon, 31 Mar 2003

PMA 2003 Show Report
BYTE.com's resident shutterbugs Ernest Lilley and David Em went to the Photographic Marketing Association's annual event in Vegas this year. They found that the world of photography's gone thoroughly digital end to end, from initial shutter release to final print. Along the way, they learned a lot about the latest in image sensors, color management, and displays.
Mon, 24 Mar 2003

Career Survival: How to Thrive in Today's Marketplace
First we had the boom and now we have the gloom. Just where are things heading for technology industries? And how can technical workers best adapt to the changes?
Mon, 24 Mar 2003

The Music of the Earth
Geophysicist Frank Scherbaum believes that the Earth makes true music—and that scientists of all kinds should open their ears.
Mon, 17 Mar 2003

Secure GSM
At a conference on Secure GSM at the UK's Institute of Electrical Engineers in London, researchers discussed the trade-offs of encryption and the characteristics that would define an ideal security software agent.
Mon, 3 Mar 2003

The BCS/IEE's Turing Lecture 2003
How will the human genome project change our technology, and our lifestyles?
Mon, 24 Feb 2003

TTCN: A Test Description Language
A formal, manufacturer-independent software testing notation may help us raise the bar on software quality.
Mon, 17 Feb 2003

DDOS: Just a Matter of Resource
Why are we so vulnerable still to distributed denial-of-service attacks? Because the Internet has no policy for monitoring service and isolating misbehaving network elements.
Mon, 10 Feb 2003

Synchronizing Replicated Data in Mobile Distributed Networks
Managing the distribution of data in mobile, distributed networks can be a real challenge, since synchronization methods relying on continuous connectivity are impractical.
Mon, 10 Feb 2003

Versioning Web Services with WSDL
All it takes is discipline.
Mon, 3 Feb 2003

Berkeley DB XML
Berkeley DB XML is an open-source embedded XML database for applications that need XML document management services. It provides transaction-protected storage of XML documents and an optimizing XPath query processor for efficient document retrieval.
Mon, 3 Feb 2003

Extremely Rich Media
If rich media is a good thing, then extremely rich media must be a great thing. Two Intel managers take a tour of cellphone symphonies, talking toilets, and defunct dot-coms…all in search of the next killer app.
Mon, 27 Jan 2003

Native Object/Relational Wrappers
Application-specific O/R wrappers allow an application to utilize the database in an object-oriented manner without changing the database structure to meet the needs of individual applications. Java ORDBMSs allow the wrapper class to be cataloged in the database and wrapper objects to be created using SQL statements.
Mon, 20 Jan 2003

Java J2EE: A Shotgun Start
Dennis explains how to write a fully enterprise architecture-ready Hello World program, using J2EE.
Mon, 13 Jan 2003



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