Neowin News Feed for: Checks

Google's Checks service ensures apps are compliant with data and privacy regulations

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:42:01 +0000

Google's in-house incubator Area 120 has offered Checks, a platform that can help mobile app developers understand how their applications handle data. It can also automate privacy compliance. Read more...

Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1

Steven Parker — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:02:01 +0000

Microsoft will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in Windows Vista and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out... Read more...

Fears over online banking checks

Tom Warren — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:23:34 +0000

Complicated security checks could be undermining confidence in online banking, warn experts. Security extras such as number fobs, card readers and password checks might make consumers more wary of net bank websites, they fear. The... Read more...

FBI checks out gambling in 'Second Life'

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:43:46 +0000

FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling. "We have invited the... Read more...

New Tool Checks Legality Of Open-Source Software

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:17:05 +0000

With the growing use of open-source software, businesses may find themselves using someone else's intellectual property without knowing it. While it's never been a smart business move to use someone else's intellectual... Read more...

Microsoft checks off patent win

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:15:06 +0000

Microsoft has successfully patented the "to-do list". This patent comes quickly after last weeks patent given to Microsoft for double clicks in handhelds. One has to wonder what plans Microsoft has for these... Read more...

New anti-piracy checks on Terminator 2 DVD

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:46:41 +0000

A recent reissue of the blockbuster Terminator 2 contains a DVD-ROM version of the movie with a new anti-piracy technique: 5-day viewing licenses issued over the Internet. The new digital rights management... Read more...