Motorola has announced that its SURFboard SB4100 and SB4101 USB driver (v2.0) marks the first cable modems to earn the Microsoft Designed for Windows logo for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and the newly introduced Windows XP operating system. Motorola is the first cable vendor in the industry to earn the Designed for Windows XP logo on a USB driver. The Designed for Windows logo validates the SB4100 and SB4101 cable modems' compatibility with Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Motorola's new v2.0 series USB driver offers enhanced stability and robustness. It also is equipped to address the issues that cable modems could encounter with some of the new power-saving features seen on some desktops.
The Designed for Windows SB4100/SB4101 USB driver (v2.0) provides:
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Motorola's new v2.0 series USB driver offers enhanced stability and robustness. It also is equipped to address the issues that cable modems could encounter with some of the new power-saving features seen on some desktops.
The Designed for Windows SB4100/SB4101 USB driver (v2.0) provides:
- Digital Signatures -- to help reduce customer problems related to the installation of out-of-date drivers
- System-File Protection -- to improve operating system reliability and stability by preventing the replacement of certain monitored system files
- Windows Update -- to ensure that customers can use the Internet to easily access up-to-date drivers, service releases, and other components
News source: CBS MarketWatch
According to the report, backed by the EU Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs Committee last month, the use of cookies by companies is an infringement on personal privacy and therefore a human rights violation under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
"So-called cookies, spyware, web bugs, hidden identifiers and other similar devices that enter the users' terminal equipment without their explicit knowledge or explicit consent in order to gain access to information, to store hidden information or to trace the activities of the user may seriously intrude the privacy of these users," the report said.
"The use of such devices should therefore be prohibited unless the explicit, well-informed and freely given consent of the user concerned has been obtained."
The Internet Industry Association's Peter Coroneos said today cookies were fundamental to Australian e-commerce and it was ludicrous to suggest a ban.
"When you go to a website such as an online retailer and you are going from one page to the next, putting things in a shopping cart, a cookie is what helps the site remember what you did on one page before you go to the next one," Coroneos said.
"Under Australian privacy law, cookies are not considered to be an intrusion of people's personal information.
"The reason is primarily because they are not personally identifying information in the same way as the e-mail address perhaps could be, or certainly your phone or your name or credit card details."
Coroneos said he had discussed cookies with federal authorities.
"I think we managed to satisfy them that they were not of the same order of concern as other potential breaches of privacy could be," he said.
He said the latest browsers - the programs people use to view the Web - warned users about cookies and allowed them to reject cookies.
"These kinds of issues are probably better addressed through education of the end users rather than attempting to pass a law to ban them," Coroneos said.
"It could have a potential dire effect on e-commerce and banking."
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