Neowin News Feed for: Prevent

Prevent v 1.0 disables cut, paste, copy, delete, re-naming of files & folders

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:44 +0000

Prevent v 1.0 is a freeware app which runs on all Windows. If you don't want anyone deleting or renaming or messing around with your data, maybe your younger sibling, then Prevent may be able... Read more...

Chips on DVDs could prevent theft

Wed, 09 May 2007 23:06:07 +0000

New technology in the form of a chip smaller than the head of a pin will supposedly thwart DVD theft since the discs are unplayable until they're activated at the cash register. A thin coating... Read more...

RIM Moves To Prevent Another BlackBerry Outage

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:10:53 +0000

Research In Motion Limited is making internal changes to ensure that a massive outage of its BlackBerry e-mail service like the recent one that hit North American and left business executives, lawyers, politicians and other... Read more...

FCC imposes rules to prevent pretexting

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:28:36 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission hopes to prevent data burglaries with a set of new regulations for phone companies aimed at preventing the fraudulent practice called "pretexting." On Monday, the FCC issued an order designed to... Read more...

Microsoft's PUMA to prevent theft of audio data

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:48:19 +0000

At the end of April at the WinHEC 2005 developersÂ´ conference Microsoft intends to furnish further details on the copy protection functions of the successor to Windows XP Longhorn, which is planned for 2006. The... Read more...

ASPFriends Contract can Prevent Carroll's Attacks

Steven Parker — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:10:45 +0000

TRhanks anon again for this follow up to our earlier report. Microsoft says a controversial contract term aims to stop ASPFriends Web site owner Charles Carroll from publicly harassing its employees. Carroll and Microsoft are... Read more...