After being caught trying to record the movie 'Dan in Real Life' last month, a man from Québec now faces up to two years in jail, if convicted, thanks to Canada's new anti-camcording legislation. Should...
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In the southern district of New York, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit on October 12 saying that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law. Usenet.com,...
Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild. This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word...
The same hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Incorporated's PDF file format. Using Adobe Reader 8.1 on Windows...
The OpenNet Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Toronto, had the time and capabilities to study only 40 countries and the Palestinian territories. The...
After receiving complaints from iBook owners that their machines would no longer start up, the Danish Consumer Complaints Board conducted a detailed study of four complaints received between April and November 2006, including a microscopic...
Coverity Incorporated has announced the availability of its Coverity Prevent Software Quality System, an automated solution that identifies and resolves vulnerabilities in C, C++ and Java source code. A technology (patent pending) the company calls...
Dell shares fell by 4% in late trading Thursday after the company once again delayed its annual report because of growing accounting concerns. Dell said its Audit Committee has identified "a number of accounting errors,...
Walt Disney has confirmed that it has found backdated stock options at Pixar prior to its acquisition in January 2006 and has cleared Steve Jobs (CEO of Pixar at the time) of any wrongdoing. "The...
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits. Microsoft has quietly fitted the feature, called ALSR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Windows Vista Beta...
Keiji Inafune unveiled Lost Planet last December for a late 2006 release in Japan for the Xbox 360 console. Today, Capcom has announced that it will ship Lost Planet to USA in the first quarter...
Microsoft has found an unlikely backer for its ambitious InfoCard online ID management system. At the RSA Conference here, Verisign dispelled the notion of a rivalry with Microsoft over identity management and announced that its...
Yahoo UK & Ireland have announced their top finds of last year. Top of the table was a cloud watching website, called The Cloud Appreciation Society, which won the weird and wonderful website award. ...
MIT announced today that it has chosen Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, to produce its ultra-low cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media...
Pixelated people find new neighborhood in Sony's portable; characters get their life on this Friday. The Sims sensation is one step closer to claiming another victim today. Electronic Arts has announced...
Dutch Philips Electronics said on Wednesday its researchers have come up with a new material to integrate memory in very advanced semiconductors featuring very thin circuits. The new material needs only a tiny voltage to...
Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday. The so-called Reflex study, conducted by 12...
Intel will likely add support for location-based services to its Pentium M line of mobile processors in 2006, a senior company executive says. As with cell phones, location-based services for computers are based on the...
Internet Light and Power says it will become one of the first ISPs to deploy Microsoft Corp.'s anticipated Sender ID technology in daily operations. Sender ID will become part of the Toronto-based company's iPermitMail virtual...
All 585 pages of the 9/11 Commission's final report is now available on the web. The 9/11 Commission on Thursday issued its final report on the terrorist attacks of 2001 and,...
IBM lobbyists, possibly with the aid of Treasury Department officials, illegally altered an internal Treasury document during a debate on pension policy last fall, the Treasury's acting inspector general has concluded. Dennis...
EA confirms that it will publish the next Oddworld title; game is bound for PS2 and Xbox gamers sometime in 2005. Oddworld cofounder Lorne Lanning takes us behind the scenes. Quoted from GameSpot. ...
Morpheus users who rely on the peer-to-peer service to swap files will soon have another option to get connected: The Morpheus Voicebox, which lets you turn a household landline phone into an Internet-based, Voice-over-IP telephone....
The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,...
Human error is to blame for 84 per cent of IT security breaches, according to a survey of more than 900 organisations. In its second annual study of IT security and the workforce,...
Microprocessor company Transmeta Corp. says NEC Electronics has become the first company to license Transmeta technology for reducing the "leakage" of electrical current in computer chips. In addition, the companies say Japanese chipmaker NEC took...
The long-lasting battle between NVIDIA and ATI Technologies on desktop graphics market is not over and will never be, but there is another one underway. Weeks after ATI announced its huge design-win with Motorola and...
Scared silly of spiders? Horrified by heights? Terrorized by tight spaces? Play a video game -- doctor's orders. Regular, off-the-shelf computer video games are an effective method of treating people's fears, using a...
Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that makes it easier to navigate Usenet news groups and could eventually help clear clutter in e-mail inboxes, a Microsoft researcher said Tuesday. A Microsoft concept called the...
Like Daniel entering the lions' den, programmer Jim Speth is about to release some new music-sharing software that could land him in a world of legal pain. Unlike Daniel, Speth doesn't have...
If anyone can find a use for an Itanium chip, it ought to be SGI. Although the processor remains stillborn as a commercial computing proposition, the benchmarks are impressive and improving, and SGI's technical computing...
A Microsoft-sponsored white paper from research group IDC, which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies, found that the...
A star researcher in electronics at Bell Labs has been fired after an outside review committee found he falsified experimental data. The committee concluded Jan Hendrik Schon made up or altered data at...
Motorola is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS satellite sensor small enough and hence cheap enough for practical use in consumer-electronics devices such as cell phones and notebook computers....
Powerful computer and telecommunications companies are allying with upstart file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net. Stung by...
