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More than 1,000 individuals and groups have signed a letter urging the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to open its meetings next month on global patent and copyright policy to more government outsiders ...
The thinking inside the box for producing a personal computer for users with shallow pockets is to start subtracting features from a more expensive model until you reach the price point you want, then toss the works into the same dull cabinet as the pricier offering ...
When Dell Computer announced last month that it would begin shippingnotebook computers incorporating a chip to make the units more secure, itsent analysts scurrying to their calculators. That's because Dell'sinclusion of "trusted computing" hardware into its machines would be givingthe technology a big boost in the coming year ...
Could the American spy community improve its intelligence activities throughblogging? A captain in the U.S. Army Reserve thinks so and says as much inthe March issue of Wired magazine ...
American companies have always had to worry about their overseas facilitiesbeing red, white and blue bull's-eyes for terrorists, but now their offshoringpartners may be in the crosshairs of subversives, too ...
Comments by a powerful U.S. senator sent a shudder through the cable andsatellite television communities this week ...
Supporters of file-sharing programs Grokster and StreamCast scourgedthe entertainment industry yesterday following the filing of briefs with theU.S. Supreme Court in a case that could be Armageddon for the peer-to-peersoftware industry ...
As a judicial panel heard arguments this week on a scheme to fight thepiracy of digital television broadcasts, a civil libertarian group in SanFrancisco launched a guerrilla program to undermine the plan ...
Caution: Click-through agreements may be hazardous to your rights of privacyand free speech ...
Congressman Mike Thompson is hoping three times is the charm for hislegislation to create a national recycling program for electronic waste ...
Federal regulators launched a two-prong attack this week on the US$200 million diploma mill industry, an industry populated with online enterprises where students can purchase a degree with minimal or no course work ...
A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews ...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) softwarewithout taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for anunlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to US$2,500, a year in county jailor both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week ...
A group that defends civil liberties on the Internet has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the government is secretly gathering information on the surfing habits of citizens ...
A developer of security software for Linux had some harsh words yesterday for what he sees as a lax attitude toward security in the operating system's community ...
A call for financial support by the operator of a BitTorrent server that'sbeen targeted by the motion picture industry as a hub for pirated films hasachieved initial success ...
A popular online community for selling goods and finding jobs and housing isdiverting US$50 million to $65 million annually in classified advertising fromnewspapers in the San Francisco Bay area, according to ClassifiedIntelligence, a consulting firm in Altamonte Springs, Florida ...
A group dedicated to preserving civil liberties on the Internet announced this week that it's throwing its weight behind the development of a technology to foster anonymity in cyberspace ...
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