Neowin News Feed for: Locks

EFF launches campaign to free phones from software locks

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:19:27 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for the public's help in its new campaign to free cell phones from the software locks. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a U.S copyright law that... Read more...

Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:17:39 +0000

Redmond, Wash.--For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents... Read more...

AOL Locks Out IM Users

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:21:52 +0000

America Online Inc. has confirmed that it mistakenly deactivated a number of AOL Instant Messenger accounts this week as part of its regular cycle of opening unused screen names to new users. AOL, whose instant... Read more...

Matrix Online locks in voice talent

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 05:59:27 +0000

Warner Bros. enlists most of the Matrix trilogy's original cast to lend their likenesses and voices to the MMORPG. Give the movies guys credit. The boys from Warner Bros. are doing all... Read more...

Kensington security locks vulnerable?

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:58:28 +0000

According to Slashdot and Security.org, Kensington Locks are extremely vulnerable to very simple attack. With the most basic of tools costing less than $1, it's possible to unlock the device that offers 'security' to many... Read more...

Glitch Locks Out Money Users

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:34:20 +0000

It's the end of the month--bill-paying time--and some Money 2004 users are wishing they'd kept their cash in an old mattress instead of relying on Microsoft's financial software. A snafu with a couple of Microsoft... Read more...

Student faces suit over key to CD locks

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 01:57:06 +0000

SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift... Read more...

New Office locks down documents

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:21:26 +0000

As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena--your desktop. Office 2003, the upcoming update of the company's... Read more...

Xbox Live Beta Locks Beta Forums

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:36:19 +0000

"IMPORTANT! Newsgroup Access Update: We are pleased to inform you that we are making the Xbox Live Beta "private" newsgroups truly private. Once security is enabled, you will be asked to enter a password each... Read more...

File-swapping network (Morpheus) locks out users

Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:36:03 +0000

StreamCast Networks' Morpheus -- a file-swapping service that many have said would be impossible for courts to shut down -- shut out most of its users Tuesday, citing "technical problems." Computer users... Read more...

First Direct online banking locks out WinXP with Sun Java

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:49:43 +0000

Microsoft's efforts to "kill cross-platform Java" by growing "the polluted Java market" seem to be bearing fruit in at least one place. The Internet banking arm of UK bank First Direct supports the Microsoft Virtual... Read more...

Winamp locks onto Windows title bars

Tue, 06 Nov 2001 04:21:01 +0000

Programmers on Friday released a software addition for AOL Time Warner's Winamp media player that adds controls to the title bar of Windows applications, a move that apparently ignores Microsoft's interface guidelines for third-party software... Read more...

Symantec locks out small-biz hackers

Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:14:48 +0000

Security software maker Symantec announced Monday a new line of drop-in network appliances to protect companies against Internet attackers and to secure communications between offices. Known as the Symantec Firewall/VPN Appliances, the three new... Read more...