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Archive - 10 Nov 2005

Amazon ups the ante for digitisation

Q&A Q&A: Jeff Bezos gives details of the next steps in his firm's book digitisation project

Are these the Sony rootkit CDs?

News The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found 19 Sony CDs that consumers should avoid if they are concerned about the company's rootkit-like digital rights management

Sony faces multiple lawsuits over DRM rootkit

News A number of American and Italian organisations are considering suing Sony over its use of copy-restriction software

Trojan horses targeting Sony DRM rootkit found

News Two Trojan horses have been discovered that exploit Sony's copy-restriction software, as F-Secure tries not to say 'I told you so'

Broadband campaigners: the job's not finished

News Pressure group is forced to auction its keynote speaker on eBay, and accuses government and industry of taking their eyes off the ball

A very British cyborg

Leader If we want to be a world leader in the future robot industry, we have to decide what law to live by

UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences

News Microsoft’s authorised resellers are shocked to learn that a trade in used Microsoft licences is legal. Could this be the start of a new business model?

US tech research faces crisis

Feature Slashes in US govenment funding in recent decades mean innovation is thin on the ground, claim experts

ODF Summit joins open source activists

News As government customers begin to get behind open standards, major companies meet to discuss stepping up their commitment to the OpenDocument format

UK developer hits Atari with massive lawsuit

News Atari faces court over the alleged non-payment of royalties, with a British judge accusing it of playing 'tactical games'

Chizen talks on major moves

Q&A Adobe's chief executive Bruce Chizen discusses the purchase of Macromedia, business in China and explains why he's not losing any sleep

O2 runs off with Orange award

News Awards ceremonies often feature irony but the National Business Awards raised it to an art form by handing the top Business Leader of the Year award to O2, the rival of lead sponsor Orange

Apple patents secure code

News Apple has filed a patent that describes a method for securely running Mac OS X on specific hardware

Google used as bait in phishing scam

News Phishers are trying to part users and their credit card details by way of the search giant

Robots: Our plastic pals who are fun to be with?

Feature Japan is still the clear leader in robot manufacture, especially when it comes to humanoid forms which are increasingly being seen as potential home helpers for an ageing population

IBM's Web analyser gives image boost

News IBM develops new search software to analyse blogs and other Web sites, alleviating the impact on companies of negative press

Ofcom confirms licence-free RFID

News Companies wanting to use the radio-tagging technology will be able to do so without the need for radio-spectrum licences, which could save UK firms £200m over 10 years

IBM calls for global identity management solution

News International standards backed up by a UN body are needed to clear up the international identity-verification mess, according to a senior IBM Global Services executive

SuSE founder walks out of Novell

News The long-time maintainer of SuSE's kernel has left Novell, just days after the firm announced a renewed focus on Linux

O2 reprimanded for 'best network' claims

News The ASA has upheld Vodafone's complaint about O2's network performance claims

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