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A hacker who calls himself Muslix64 has Hollywood and music studios on edge this New Year's Eve weekend as they wait to see whether their latest digital rights management software standard will work as designed Muslix64 has posted on the Internet the tools and title keys he said he has used to decrypt the next generation DRM standard for high defin...
Ford is jumping on the Bluetooth bandwagon, and it is betting on Microsoft to help it gain momentum. The companies have reached a deal to put the software giant's technology into some Ford cars, according to a Wall Street Journal report Microsoft's Sync, which includes hands-free Bluetooth wireless and an in-vehicle operating system, will become an...
Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blessing for the delayed deal AT&T had balked at requests by the Democratic members of the FCC to put guar...
Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blessing for the delayed deal AT&T had balked at requests by the Democratic members of the FCC to put guar...
Hoping to clear the way for its US$85 billion takeover of BellSouth before the calendar turns to 2007, AT&T has offered additional concessions, including some limited network neutrality guarantees to win Federal Communications Commission (FCC) blessing for the delayed deal AT&T had balked at requests by the Democratic members of the FCC to put guar...
Beware of e-mails with the subject line "Happy New Year!" VeriSign is warning that the message may appear to come from a well-wisher but actually contains a worm that could invade your computer and use it for malicious purposes....
Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? It certainly seems that way, according to Nicholas G. Carr, author of Does IT Matter....
The coming year is going to reorder entire industries due to customer churn. With this reordering will be an entirely new set of selling dynamics, as existing ones prove marginally successful into 2007 The old "bundle three" rule for higher customer retention will prove no longer as effective as it once was. Pricing and promotional strategies wil...
Given growing public concerns about energy independence,security and climate change, U.S. states and the federal government are adopting legislation and offering incentives in support of the rapidly growing renewable energy and power industry, and California is playing a leading role The introduction of the California Solar Initiative (CSI) is set ...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced that he will propose nearly US$95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative The initiative would provide funding for major projects aimed at growing California's economic strength in key innovation sectors, including cleantech, biotech and nan...
Apple shares fell again Thursday after a published report suggested CEO Steve Jobs had been granted stock options without the knowledge of the company's board of directors and that the company may have falsified documents to cover up the misdeed The Financial Times of London reported that Apple granted Jobs 7.5 million stock options dated November ...
An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent andTrademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rightsto RSS, or really simple syndication, technology The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees forany RSS-type application has caused denizens of the blogosphere to take up arms agai...
Samsung Electronics has developed a docking station complete with a fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month. Samsung plans to launch the product at the end of 2007 A fuel cell is an electronic device similar to a battery that produces electricity from an external fuel supply as opposed to relying on limited internal energy stor...
Spam, or unsolicited e-mail, is an old Internet nemesis, but spammers have come up with a new twist, and it's causing corporate and individual users alike e-heartburn. It's called "image spam," and it's waiting in an in-box near you Image spam contains little ordinary text to analyze. Instead, it uses the .gif or .jpeg image file formats -- hence i...
Since Jimmy Wales' announcment last week that he plans to launch a newsearch engine in Q1 2007, speculation has been rife over what it could mean for the search industry -- and specifically for Google Wales, the founder ofWikipedia, is one of the few Web 2.0 players with enough clout to take on the search giant....
The pending January release of Windows Vista raises questions about the security benefits of using one operating system over another Part 1 of this two-part series outlines the relative attractiveness of operating systems to hackers and other criminals. This second installment looks at the security "hardness" of popular operating systems in the fac...
For all the talk about safety andsecurity as a foundational promise of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, released to business users in late November, has already been found to contain several potentially serious vulnerabilities A programming flaw, thought to be the first identified in the new OS, could let hackers take full control o...
Nortel Networks will pay US$2.45 billion to settle shareholder lawsuits stemming from accounting fraud at the telecom gear maker between 2000 and 2005; U.S. judges gave the settlement their final blessing on Tuesday Though Canadian courts have yet to clear the settlement of suits brought there, the U.S. judges ruled on two separate class action law...
Digital Insight, a provider of outsourced online banking services, in 2007 will begin offering its on-demand consumerInternet banking and business banking clientsEntrust's TransactionGuard, a real-time transaction monitoring and fraud detection service Entrust's solution is designed to helpsecurity administrators among Digital Insight's financial c...
It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time, to actually finding them being productive in new ways I was one of a 3D flurry of invited "VIPs" to enter an IBM pavilion inside Second Life. With my unique personage avatar seated (it took me five minutes to figure out h...
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