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Chipmakers' directory to combat counterfeiting
News The directory is part of a larger campaign being undertaken by SIA against the counterfeiting industry, whereby the association works with customs agencies to seize illegal products at country borders and encourages the authentication of...
[April 25, 2008, 11:05]
Boxing Clever: How new technology can play a key role in fighting the global counterfeiting boom
White Papers The Internet's reach and anonymity have played a big part in the 100-fold growth of counterfeiting since the 1980s. The web provides a shop window on the world, yet it's impossible to police. Now intelligent automated monitoring technologies are...
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
SAP, Nokia join forces against counterfeiting
News SAP has formed a new company with Nokia and German banknote and smartcard specialists Giesecke & Devrient to develop services and solutions designed to help companies protect themselves from counterfeiting and product piracy.
[October 28, 2009, 11:36]
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
Talkback Michala, speaking as a consumer, I don't "struggle to want to buy a PC without an OS" at all! Wanting to do precisely that is the easy part. The struggle starts when you actually try to buy such a thing without being asked to buy an unwanted and...
[May 22, 2006, 22:16]
FBI helps China crack software-counterfeiting ring
News China's Public Security Bureau, acting with the FBI, have made a number of raids and arrests in the past couple of weeks with the aim of cracking an alleged software-counterfeiting ring. Microsoft claims the alleged counterfeiting syndicate, based...
[July 24, 2007, 14:04]
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
Talkback I agree with Chris, naked PC's are what I want, but I usually end up building my own if I have time, or buying something with a copy of XP (usually Home), which either gets replaced with XP Pro or more commonly Linux.
[May 23, 2006, 10:14]
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
Talkback Microsoft should stop the double speak. Either legalize home use or make more then a best effort to stop illegal home use. The fact however is that Microsoft likes it two ways. On the one hand they want to cry foul and waive with research that...
[May 23, 2006, 21:27]
HP fights counterfeiting in Asia
News The next time customers step into a computer store in Asia for a Hewlett-Packard inkjet cartridge, the product will not be counterfeit. This is HP's vow to its customers after 14 months of research and development on tamper-proof cartridge boxes.
[May 15, 2001, 9:30]
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
News What would you like to achieve in terms of changing people's attitudes to counterfeiting and unlicensed software? Despite successfully shutting down a prolific trader in unlicensed software last week, Alexander admits that the odds are stacked...
[May 22, 2006, 13:30]
Seven arrested in car boot software swoop
News Police and Trading Standards officers have arrested seven people as part of crackdown on software counterfeiting. ELSPA claims that over £2bn is lost every year by the UK games industry to software counterfeiting.
[October 19, 2005, 15:35]
Drug companies prescribed RFID
News The US Food and Drug Administration is urging pharmaceutical companies to adopt radiofrequency identification technology as a means to combat drug counterfeiting. The FDA has seen an increase in drug counterfeiting over the past several years, the...
[February 19, 2004, 11:05]
Police smash £39m Italian piracy ring
News The Italian Guardia di Finanza (finance police) have closed down three Web sites that were used in an alleged counterfeiting operation that had built up a turnover of more than £38m. To back up their demands, the media groups claim that...
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Software blocks images of money
News Adobe and other makers of image-manipulation programs have, at the behest of a little-known group of national banks, inserted secret technology into their programs to foil counterfeiting, the companies acknowledged this week.
[January 12, 2004, 7:45]
Excentro
Downloads The guilloches are vintage design elements that were frequently used for anti-counterfeiting security purposes on banknotes, passports, checks and certificates during the past two hundred years. As the times changed and digital copy and printing...
[December 24, 2008, 14:10]
A Year Ago: Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News Q: But didn't you say it'd help to prevent counterfeiting of chips? Intel claims that the serial number will facilitate e-commerce, promote "digital content protection," prevent counterfeiting of Intel processors, and help to track stolen ones.
[May 17, 2000, 7:01]
Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News Q: But didn't you say it'd help to prevent counterfeiting of chips? Intel claims that the serial number will facilitate e-commerce, promote "digital content protection," prevent counterfeiting of Intel processors, and help to track stolen ones.
[May 17, 1999, 10:04]
Euro notes may be radio tagged
News The ECB is deeply concerned about counterfeiting and money laundering and is said to be looking at radio tag technology. Last year, Greek authorities were confronted with of 2,411 counterfeiting cases and seized 4,776 counterfeit bank notes while...
[May 22, 2003, 8:11]
'DMCA on steroids' heads for Euro Parliament
News Intellectual property: Enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at cracking down on organised piracy and counterfeiting in the EU, but critics say its...
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
UK sets up DVD piracy task force
News The anti-piracy body will be responsible for assessing the extent of DVD and video counterfeiting and finding ways to tackle it. FACT -- the Federation Against Copyright Theft -- estimates that the cost of counterfeiting to the UK's domestic film...
[August 19, 2003, 11:20]
Pirate software linked with organised crime
News What people often do not realise is that often these people can be very serious and dangerous criminals, not the harmless Del Boy character that has come to be associated with counterfeiting. These people are using the profits they make from...
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
