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The judge presiding over Microsoft's appeal of the European Union's antitrust decision has scheduled a first meeting for July 27th.
A move to help TV viewers avoid restrictions on digital broadcast signals scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2005 has been launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The campaign is targeted at something called the "Broadcast Flag," a digital rights management scheme that the EFF maintai...
One of the things that has stuck with me after meeting with HP last month is that the movie industry is going through a lot of changes. It seems to me that few consumers have any concept of how much this industry is likely to change by the end of the decade. So this week, I thought it might be inter...
The battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley over copyright issues heated up recently as two bills in Congress generated attention. Each side has a point, but consumers would be better off if the battleground were the marketplace, not the political stage. How to protect intellectual property in a...
In the second ruling to limit the legal ammunition of Canadian copyright holders looking to sue file-sharers and hold ISPs accountable for peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that ISPs are not subject to royalty fees. Canada's high court ruled that the creation of a cache cop...
In one of the last settlements with states that sued it over antitrust allegations, Microsoft settled with Arizona, agreeing to US$104.6 million in vouchers for the state's consumers, who will each get up to $15 for purchasing Microsoft's operating system or applications. The settlement, which coinc...
Panasonic has released a DVD recorder based on Blu-Ray, a technology that can read and store data at much higher densities than previous DVD technologies. According to some analyst estimates, the move should give Panasonic an edge in the battle against a rival technology supported by fellow Japanese...
Security advisories and reports typically include preventive measures that computer users can take to avoid malicious Internet attacks, but one piece of advice is on the rise: Use a Web browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Security experts themselves have indicated that their own use of...
Known to some in the space community as "the last battlestar," the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft this week is on the verge of finishing its 2.2-billion-mile trip to Saturn as it prepares to get closer to the ringed planet than any other craft in history. Cassini-Huygens is set to slip between two of Sa...
Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates claimed this week that his company has made great security strides, responding quickly enough and well enough to the increasing danger of attackers who are now using automation techniques to strike more quickly at exposed Windows systems. Gates pointed t...
As a guest of AMD, I went to Indianapolis to watch the top Ferrari team once again whomp the other nine teams in what remains one of the most expensive sports in the world. This racing team has been winning for so long and is so dominant in this sport that I often wonder why anyone watches these rac...
Computer and Internet security experts were closely watching the development of a mysterious outbreak that appears to have used a new tactic against an old vulnerability to infect thousands, possibly millions, of Web servers, Internet sites and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser users. The widesp...
Last week, the FTC rejected the idea of a national "do-not-e-mail" registry, and this week a coalition of ISPs released a set of technical guidelines to help in the fight against spam. Both these actions point the way toward the real solution. But first, a host of bad ideas needs to be canned. The f...
A Utah District Court judge has put a hold on a state law that targets spyware. The ruling from Utah Third Judicial District Court Judge Joseph Fratto Jr. was hailed as a victory by New York-based Internet advertiser WhenU, which argued in court for the court to enjoin the Utah Spyware Act. WhenU co...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week continued its legal campaign against online file-traders using peer-to-peer (P2P) song-swapping programs, taking legal action against another 482 individuals across the country in a handful of lawsuits. The RIAA, which now has taken lega...
