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AOL Wants To Lock Up Its CDs
News Last December, Universal released its first copy-protected CD, using software from Midbar's Cactus Data Shield to lock up audio tracks. AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit...
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
Transmeta Shares Drop As Lock-up Ends
News End of lock-up period sees chip manufacturer lose almost a quarter of its stock market value While Transmeta has shaken up the microprocessor industry, its chips are used chiefly in portable computers for the Japanese market and haven't penetrated...
[May 8, 2001, 12:02]
Lock Up Your Desktops
Talkback Very informative, well defined and well written.
[November 1, 2004, 10:57]
Spam Killers May Lock Up Your Email
Talkback I was ready for challenge response but you have made me think again. Thankyou. I will reserve judgement for another day.
[September 3, 2003, 23:25]
World's Smallest Combination Lock Gears Up - For IT Security
News One of America's top defence research institutes, Sandia National Laboratories, has unveiled a combination lock with a difference -- it's the size of a shirt button. The combination lock was invented in 1862, but this is the first time the concept...
[March 5, 2003, 15:48]
Investors May Exit Lastminute.com Early
News Online booking agent Lastminute.com faces losing its early investors this week as the lock-up extensions agreed by the company in September expire. Lastminute.com share prices have more than halved to 81.5p since the lock-up extensions were agreed...
[December 11, 2000, 12:13]
News Burst: Investors May Exit Lastminute.com Early
News Online booking agent Lastminute.com faces the possibility of its early investors selling out of the company this week, when the lock-up extensions they agreed in September expire. Lastminute.com share prices have more than halved to 81.5p since the...
[December 11, 2000, 9:25]
The Day Ahead: IPO Flop-o-meter Runs Amok
News In addition, there's too much stock on the market -- IPOs, secondary offerings and the expiration of lock-up periods are flooding the market. Nuance may have had a better debut if Lernout and Hauspie didn't recently buy Dragon Systems to lock up a...
[April 12, 2000, 11:52]
Worm Spread Shows Hole In Patch System
News The ability of the MSBlast worm to spread has underscored the view that today's methods of patching security flaws, while necessary to lock down specific computers, are too time-consuming to react to critical vulnerabilities.
[August 13, 2003, 9:35]
Ink Stain On Lexmark's Bottom Line
Leader If your products are good enough and your marketing and business model are up to snuff, you won't need lock-in. We feel their pain, but a business plan based on customer lock-in rather than superior products is dangerous even when that lock-in can...
[April 28, 2005, 13:20]
Microsoft Readies Office Overhaul
News This "opening up" of Office could end Microsoft's lock on document file formats that have boosted Office sales in years past and made the software the de facto standard for desktop productivity. They're going to lose that lock on the file format...
[October 22, 2002, 8:14]
Learning How To Interface With Vista
News The lock button has a pop-up submenu attached to it that contains the Switch User, Log Off, Lock, Shut Down and Restart options. The other button icon is, appropriately enough, a lock and clicking it immediately locks the system.
[January 16, 2006, 14:40]
Should Vodafone Buy BT?
News Tony Lock, chief analyst at Bloor Research, agrees that Gent's sudden departure takes place at a challenging time for Vodafone. Lock also believes that the most important issue for the company will be how it deals with the convergence issue.
[March 13, 2006, 15:55]
Analysis: FTC Action Against Intel Will Set Precedents
News It's illegal under antitrust laws for a monopolist to wield its monopoly power to lock others out of the market," Baer said. Though the court agreed that commuter airlines did less well than major carriers in the guides, OAG was not a competitor of...
[June 10, 1998, 9:14]
Desktop Linux 'like Teenage Sex'
News Computing customers are increasingly rejecting proprietary products that lock them to a particular technology supplier, Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik said on Wednesday. But Szulik insisted that his company doesn't have or want that lock-in...
[October 27, 2005, 9:05]
Intel's Montvale Itanium Chip Arrives
News The first new feature — core-level lock-step — is said to strengthen the Itanium platform's support for mission-critical applications, as it "improves the data integrity and reliability of applications by eliminating undetected errors in the core".
[October 31, 2007, 7:56]
Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
News Since January, Kaspersky has seen an increase in the strength, from 56 to 660bit keys, of the encryption being used by hackers to lock files. Last month Greater Manchester Police decided not to pursue the criminals who used a Trojan horse program...
[July 24, 2006, 17:40]
Microsoft Exec Talks Patent Politics
News But there are some people, for example the ODF Alliance, who are saying that Microsoft is again attempting to lock people into a standard — that Open XML has not been developed in the interests of interoperability, that it's a means for Microsoft...
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
How Open Is The New Office?
News If Microsoft believes customers are getting worried about format lock-in, then using XML is a way to assuage their fears without losing their lock-in," Stracke said. Microsoft says it's opening up its Office desktop software by adding support for...
[December 16, 2002, 11:50]
As The Mac Turns 20, Has The PC Caught Up?
Talkback Although this is not an immediate prospect because of existing 'lock in', avoiding further 'lock in' is likely to become a priority. The latest round of XP might just indicate that Windows has caught up, except for four basic areas: when Windows XP...
[January 22, 2004, 16:37]
