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A proposed federal lawsuit by a woman in New Jersey alleging racketeering by major music labels is "preposterous" and has little chance of prevailing, entertainment industry lawyers tell TechNewsWorld. The forthcoming lawsuit by Michele Scimeca, said to be a countersuit against members of the Record...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

VoIP and the New Telecommunications Industry

Voice over Internet Protocol pioneers Skype, Vonage and other voice-communications purveyors have been quietly generating huge user bases online. Market analysts are reporting that VoIP services stand poised to displace conventional telecommunications pricing models. Given the success of improved Vo...

Adding incentive for companies to adopt its Internet Protocol (IP) telephony products, networking giant Cisco has announced new software and hardware to deliver broadcast-quality video and voice over IP networks. Cisco said the addition of video will round out its IP communications offerings. While ...

As operating system migration has become more of an issue, particularly for Microsoft administrators, the company has responded by releasing a beta version of Virtual Server 2004, which promises to pave a gentle migration path to Windows Server 2003 while working with older Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 ...

CONSUMER REPORT

Phishing Scams Jump 52 Percent in One Month

The amount of Internet fraud perpetrated using a practice known as "phishing" increased 52 percent from December to January, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). In January, there were 176 new, unique attack types reported to the group, compared with 116 in December, the organization...

Various standards bodies and organizations are contributing to and competing for different Web services formats, but promoters of the new WS-Discovery specification say it will expand the market for Web services more than other specs by seamlessly connecting all kinds of devices -- including desktop...

In what a Recording Industry Association of America spokesperson described as "catching up to the pace we were at before," the RIAA has filed five new suits to ensnare another 531 computer users who allegedly have traded pirated music online. The copyright lawsuit tactic first emerged last year in a...

Music fans who download songs from the Internet and share them with friends via P2P technology are still at risk for a copyright infringement claim -- and massive financial damages -- from the recording industry. A ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late last y...

Lucent's Mobility Solutions Group has been working to meet the needs of the world's mobile service providers, including traditional wireless carriers and emerging third-generation (3G) mobile operators. Paul Mankiewich is chief architect and chief technical officer for Lucent's Mobility Solutions Gr...

The idea of the Windows desktop PC in a small, mobile form is nothing new, and judging by the amount of notebook sales to consumers, the mobile form factor is in high demand. But the latest approach to the mini PC -- on display at this week's DEMO 2004 trade show in Seattle -- has the endorsement of...

OPINION

Can Open-Source Software Survive an Audit?

In case you live on the moon, what happened last week was that a small amount of Microsoft source code was leaked to the Web. Microsoft eventually confirmed the leak, but that hasn't stopped the barrage of commentary from the open-source community, which waxed eloquent on why the exposure of Microso...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

Microsoft Code Leak Invokes Issues Beyond Security

The recent disclosure of a security hole revealed through the leak of Microsoft Windows 2000 and NT source code is raising several issues that the software giant will have to face as a result of the breach. Analysts are indicating the leak could have a profound effect not only on the security of Mic...

Computer attackers are among those discussing and dissecting exploit code for a recently disclosed, serious security gap in all newer versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, following a pattern now familiar to victims of the SQL Slammer, Blaster, Nimda or Code Red viruses. And while past ex...

The first vulnerability stemming from the Windows source code apparently leaked last week by one of Microsoft's developers has been posted on the Internet. "It appears that it could be used to attack ordinary users, but according to the person posting it, it does not affect newer versions of Interne...

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Is the Superworm a Mere Myth?

If one thing is definite about Internet security and worm attacks, say experts, it is that cyber attacks are on the rise in 2004. Consider the worldwide effect of highly publicized worms like last year's SoBig series and the recent Sinit Trojan and MyDoom outbreaks. Given the potency of some of thes...


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