Commercial help for open source security package
News Security may adopt the Clam AntiVirus project and improve the open source software.eEye's Blink intrusion-prevention product includes system- and application-level firewalls and protects computers against phishing, spyware and exploitation of...
[December 13, 2005, 9:00]
Political cybersquatting scores a win
News The panel finds that the protection of an individual politician's name, no matter how famous, is outside the scope of the policy since it is not connected with commercial exploitation," according to the WIPO ruling issued earlier this month.
[April 30, 2002, 10:11]
Cambridge Plastic Light Technology Licensed By Philips
News A new light-emitting technology, invented and developed in Cambridge, has taken its first step towards major commercial exploitation. It is particularly gratifying to see a Cambridge company with the commercial nous to back up its innovative skills...
[September 5, 1996, 15:56]
Update: Heavyweights pound BT's patent claim
News Such exploitation, if allowed, could result in thousands of lawsuits against the company for broken hyperlinks and other such claims. BT was reluctant to respond to Mitchell's damning remarks, but a spokesman eventually admitted "We're expecting a...
[June 22, 2000, 11:15]
UK and India to establish virtual R&D school
News In a statement, BT said the initiative would involve the development of new services and technologies, the filing of patents and the "commercial exploitation of research through licensing and spinning out start-up companies".
[December 3, 2007, 10:51]
Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
News To improve the commercial exploitation of research results, the level of private-public partnerships and aligning business agendas with research agendas, must be addressed, she said. The European Commission (EC) has announced that grid computing...
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Microsoft takes spam fight to source
News Weak security, such as mail servers with relays left open for exploitation by spammers, has also been blamed for the flood of junk mail from the region. As part of its current global campaign against unsolicited commercial email, or spam, the...
[June 20, 2003, 15:37]
Adobe's price isn't right
Leader Alienating your users by crass exploitation is just filling the fire buckets with petrol. Creating a powerful commercial imperative to find alternatives isn't smart, especially when both Microsoft and the open-software community are willing and...
[June 7, 2007, 15:43]
Microsoft to help police on cybercrime
News The Forensic Computing and Computer Investigations Workshops are designed to help investigators fight crimes such phishing, online child exploitation and money laundering. I'm not talking about commercial shrink-wrapped products that we would put...
[March 31, 2005, 9:25]
Yahoo! makes u-turn on porn sales
News Profiting from the sexual exploitation of children and women by Yahoo! We've no moral stance on adult sites and commercial sex sites provided they remain legal," said chairman David Kerr. announced its decision to stop selling porn on Yahoo!
[April 17, 2001, 16:22]
Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw
News We do not claim that our way of exploitation is the only one," one of the group's members said in an email. That's a moot point, said Eric Allman, founder of the Sendmail Consortium and chief technology officer for Sendmail Inc.a company that has...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
Report reveals extent of open source in government
News Acquisition diversity reduces the cost and security risks of being fully dependent on a single software product, while architectural diversity lowers the risk of catastrophic cyberattacks based on automated exploitation of specific features or...
[October 30, 2002, 13:55]
Microsoft acts on 'download warning' flaw
News It is important to note that this is not the exploitation of a security vulnerability, but an attempt by an attacker to use social engineering to convince a user to save an executable file on the hard drive without first receiving the Internet...
[November 23, 2004, 7:50]
Copyright reform lends itself to libraries
Talkback Google is not a "public benefactor" (unlike the great national libraries, if you live near one); it is a for-profit, commercial enterprise (i.e.the usual capitalist exploitation), and it has to be viewed in that light.
[August 16, 2005, 14:10]
