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An attempt to exclude evidence from a music piracy case seized in sweeping raids by the Australian recording industry has been rejected by a federal court judge. The evidence was gathered February 5th by Music Industry Privacy Investigations (MIPI), the enforcement agent of Australia's recording ind...
The evolution of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags into a viable enterprise enabler is almost complete. The pressure put on suppliers by such companies as Wal-Mart and Tescos will, through commercial inertia and economies of scale, ensure the price of individual tags and associated readers ...
The number of broadband digital subscriber lines (DSL) connecting users to the Internet grew 78 percent worldwide last year to more than 63 million, according to research from Point Topic and the DSL Forum, a consortium of DSL companies. China led the way and now holds the world's largest DSL market...
Key the words "free porn" into a search engine on your home PC. Most likely, you will obtain a list of more than 6 million URLs, the government's top lawyer said this week. "Internet porn is persistent and unavoidable," Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the lawyer for the Bush Administration, told t...
When the Internet first emerged into the mainstream, companies like Yahoo evolved rapidly from startups into successful corporations by helping users sift though mountains of information to find the data they needed. But as the Internet grew, many of those companies shifted their attention away from...
To online file-traders, it is the original, pure file format for digital music. To the recording industry, it is a pirate ship that has been the basis for copyright violation and lost revenue. Regardless of what it once was and is now, the MP3 format is getting a facelift to include copy protection....
The recent rush to adopt technologies for countering e-mail abuses like spam and phishing could pose a dangerous threat to freedom on the Internet. "These proposals are extremely dangerous," Eric Johansson, a networking consultant for the TriArche Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told Tec...
Touting findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project and other Internet use researchers, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has credited its controversial strategy of suing individual file-sharers with cutting the number of illegal trades in half. TechNewsWorld talked w...
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps recently lamented that "the Internet may be dying," but he might as well have said "the sky is falling." Indeed, Copps seems to see his position as one of two Democrats on the five-member commission as a reason to stir up fear, uncertainty and doubt....
Reinforcing its efforts to bolster software security, Microsoft is planning to release updates to its Visual Studio .Net developer tools and .Net development environment. The news comes on the heels of the company's announcement that it will release a large, security-oriented service pack for its Wi...
Privacy concerns over Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology are the basis of both proposed legislation in the United States and protest in Europe. The protests have been linked to German retailer Metro Group's plan to use the tracking technology for items in its supermarket stores. Howeve...
Last week at the RSA conference in soggy California, Microsoft presented the most comprehensive plan I've ever seen to address a security problem. Granted, they currently have massive exposure, but it caused me to wonder what would happen if everyone followed their lead and focused on the human aspe...
E-mail management company Sendmail is throwing its support to antispam efforts from both Microsoft and Yahoo as the major players seek to team up against junk e-mail and the increasing ease with which spammers fake their identities. Spammers have remained ahead of both regulation and technology and ...
The U.S. federal government is moving forward with civil -- and possibly criminal -- cases against major makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. The cases are being investigated on both coasts. The Federal Trade Commission this week disclosed in court documents released in Washington, D...
Hoping for even bigger market share with a smaller portable music player, Apple has been heavily promoting its iPod technology in the form of the iPod mini, which the Cupertino, California-based company indicated this week is selling wildly among music and technology fans. Apple found sweet success ...
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