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The European Commission (EC) has passed a controversial directive that opponents claim will bolster the lot of big companies at the expense of small ones and will stifle innovation. The so-called Computer-Implemented Inventions directive, which would harmonize how software patents are issued through...
Internet giant Yahoo has released an e-mail encryption scheme to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) aimed at wide adoption and avoidance of the unwanted and increasing volume of commercial and gimmicky e-mail known as spam. However, the submission of Yahoo's DomainKeys antispam proposal come...
Taiwanese chipmaker VIA has released details of its next-generation C5J Esther processor core, which is intended to bring security in addition to low heat and power consumption to small, low-priced embedded devices. VIA, which unveiled the new power-efficient processor core at the Embedded Processor...
Q: What's the difference between Chi-Hi, a high school, and a 12-year-old named Brianna LaHara? A: 500 CDs. It's now routine for the Big Five record labels to sue innocent people for allegedly sharing music online without permission, and 12-year-old Brianna LaHara was one such person sued by Big Mus...
Even before the ink has dried on the $47 billion merger of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless, the cellular company spun off by AT&T in 2001, AT&T has announced a new deal with Sprint to provide AT&T-branded voice and data services to AT&T's 30 million customers over Sprint's wi...
In a somewhat surprising answer to U.S. counterparts Yahoo and Google, which recently have revealed plans to offer high volumes of storage space as part of their Web-based e-mail services, European Internet company Lycos Europe has upped the stakes in the e-mail-storage race by offering its own 1-GB...
The Australian recording industry's bid to eyeball material gathered in a series of raids at the sites of alleged music pirates -- including Sharman Networks, maker of the popular online file-sharing program Kazaa, and Sharman partners Altnet and Brilliant Digital Entertainment -- was deflated last ...
Because the volume of spam has increased from about 10 percent of all e-mail in 2001 to more than 50 percent today, corporations and ISPs have been trying to find ways to keep the junk mail from overwhelming users' inboxes. Filtering products, which rely on several techniques to separate needed mess...
Officials at several U.S. state and federal law enforcement organizations have announced an initiative aimed squarely at use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks for child pornography. More than 1,000 investigations have been opened in the United States involving the distribution and possessi...
A while back, I wrote a column on how Microsoft had passed Nintendo to become number two in the gaming scene. In that column, I covered what Microsoft was doing to chase the clearly dominant player in the console-gaming market. That dominant player was and is Sony. In handheld gaming, the landscape ...
A manned space rocket program funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen made its way to higher than 211,000 feet Thursday with the SpaceShipOne test flight, which reached about two-thirds of the 63-mile-high requirement of the $10 million X Prize that is more about feat than finance. Piloted by Mike ...
Searching for data on a PC used to be a series of isolated activities. Users needed one or more computer-based software utilities to hunt through the hard drive for specific files containing keywords. Finding information beyond the hard disk meant logging in to a library or university system and ent...
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...
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