While the government investigates how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers. Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott both wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident, and both were served [...]
Microsoft has just started offering something of a patch for its extremely popular Word software, allowing it to comply with the recent court ruling which banned the software giant from selling copyright infringing versions of the word processing product which contained a custom XML feature.
Kevin Kutz, Microsoft’s director of public affairs, said in a statement [...]
Recently, the United States Congress agreed to provide $30 million in new funding to put towards the battle against piracy. On Monday, authorities reported another victory on the piracy front- great success on a recent year-end piracy crackdown which is code-named Operation Holiday Hoax. These new pledged funds will target personnel and programs which were [...]
Microsoft’s offer of allowing Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrust investigation of the company’s impressive position in the browser market.
The company promises it will offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a choice screen through which they can pick [...]
The United States has begun planning talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee to strengthen Internet security and limit military use of cyberspace. American and Russian officials have very different interpretations of the talks so far, but the simple fact that the United States is even participating represents a significant policy shift [...]
Security researchers for Amazon recently spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on the company’s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This is the first known time that Amazon Web Services’ cloud infrastructure has been used for this type of illegal activity, according to onw of the security researchers in question. The hackers [...]
A steadily growing movement has begun around the world, in an effort to help transform the unique attributes of high-functioning autistic adults into sought-after job skills. This movement would also, some proponents say, make use of a large portion of the population that has been completely ignore up till now.
The company Specialisterne in Denmark makes [...]
Novels and newspapers especially have been moving briskly from paper to pixels, with textbooks having yet to find the perfect electronic home. They are readable on laptops and smartphones, but the displays can be seriously eye-taxing due to the nature of textbooks. Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays have trouble handling textbook staples [...]
A businesswoman who had been harassed by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor just won a landmark legal battle to have her accuser’s identity revealed. The victim reportedly had someone write ‘confidential and sensitive’ details about her professional life and that of her child’s on her online encyclopedia page. She also received anonymous threatening letters suggesting that [...]
In Denmark, it is completely legal to make copies of commercial videos for personal backup or other private purposes. However, it is illegal to break the DRM on any dvd, which completely prevent the copying of any DVD. They promised him a response, then didn’t respond. So now he’s reporting himself to the police. He [...]
