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This week's congressional hearing on the loosening of DVD and other copying restrictions based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 might signal a change in attitude toward laws that have been the basis of infringement suits against companies and consumers. Some, including lawmaker...
The arrest this week of the Japanese author of a popular online file-sharing program appears to be an extreme reaction, by American standards at least, to his alleged abetting of copyright infringers, according to a patent attorney in Chicago. In what's been reported as the first arrest of a softwar...
Online music service Napster has announced a distribution deal with a UK independent label group to bolster its catalog of copyright-compliant tracks for Internet users. Roxio-owned Napster also signaled it still plans to enter the competitive UK market as early as late summer, while UK download riv...
Looking to blur business lines the same way that technology has blurred traditional voice and data networks and solutions, MCI and Microsoft have announced a deepening of their relationship to deliver converged communication and collaboration technologies. The companies will codevelop new real-time ...
The CRIA, Canada's version of the RIAA, recently suffered an ignominious and embarrassing defeat when it failed to convince a Canadian federal court that online file-sharing is illegal and is "devastating" the multibillion-dollar music industry. Having fallen flat on its face, the Canadian Recording...
Sony announced today details from the presentation given this morning by Kaz Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Hirai's presentation highlighted the company's announcements and focused in particular on new d...
A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be more careful, not quelled by the arrests, according to security experts. The biggest arrest came last ...
Following its official announcement of three new mobile semiconductors manufactured with a more efficient, 90-nanometer process, Intel's plans for more mobile chips were unofficially forecast through a mistaken posting of information by Dell. The Dell Web site indicated that, in addition to the thre...
As video-game makers from around the world gather at the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo -- known in the industry as E3 -- in Los Angeles this week, handheld hardware is expected to garner much of the buzz emanating from the show. "There'll be a lot of looking at the handheld market this y...
IBM has outlined a new Lotus Workplace software environment aimed at joining Web and traditional PC computing to enable more efficient building, deployment and management of applications and data. Big Blue said its new environment and software products will give users a new way to develop, deliver a...
While it will be some time before Linux is really much of a threat to Microsoft's installed base or Microsoft to Linux's, the battle for the consumer and corporate desktop was actually joined some time ago. Both sides are working furiously to derail the other. With both the WinHEC and TechEd confere...
AMD is pushing its Athlon 64 processor further into the mobile-computing world with new models designed to provide low-power performance in the thin and light notebook market. The Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker announced its Athlon 64 2800+ and 2700+, immediately available worldwide, offering...
Computer virus attacks are up dramatically from 2,400 in 1995 to more than 80,000 in 2002. It seems that almost every week, there's a new, threatening virus. Now the Sasser worm -- which could in fact be a clone, at least in its effects, of last year's MSBlaster and Slammer worms -- is said to have ...
A real security threat is looming with wireless PDAs, WiFi devices and smartphones. These are the electronic marvels that are pushing the goal of wireless telecommunications to new limits. Industry watchers report that people are dropping their older PDAs like hot potatoes and snapping up the latest...
Microsoft has announced plans to tie its next-generation Longhorn client-side operating system to its Longhorn server operating system that is aimed squarely at corporate computing. The Redmond, Washington-based company said it will still be at least another year and a half before any Longhorn relea...
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