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Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
News SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD anti-piracy technology, said on Thursday that it will probably sue a Princeton student who earlier this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's shift key.
[October 10, 2003, 14:40]
And Matusow says that Microsoft is still pushing for OOXML...
Talkback Another interesting thing from Jason Matusow's post is the assesrtion that Microsoft is still pushing ahead just as hard for "standard OOXML", even though it is delayed till the next Office version. Agreed.
[July 1, 2008, 14:04]
Microsoft to start pushing IE8 browser
News Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows's automatic-update feature turned on. The software maker released the browser for download at the Mix conference in March, and had said...
[April 14, 2009, 8:28]
Cloud pushing telecoms into bandwidth boost
News In turn, top industry players such as Nortel, Cisco and Juniper Networks are pushing towards high-speed 100Gbps Ethernet products in response to operator demand, Ovum principal analyst John Mazur told ZDNet UK.
[June 9, 2009, 16:36]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback SunnComm is suing the wrong party. I can't believe they'd go after the guy who discovered this major flaw instead of whatever clown(s) sold them on such urine-poor "protection" software. If they developed it on their own, SunnComm needs to fire...
[October 11, 2003, 22:53]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback Surely installing a program without the users consent is illegal under section 3 of the computer misuse act 1990?
[October 10, 2003, 14:54]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback This is ridiculous. The DMCA is just a get out for companies who produce shoddy software to sue anyone that lets the world know how cr*p they are. I have Auto Run disabled by default on all my PCs. This was initially to prevent annoying DVDs which...
[October 13, 2003, 13:11]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback Is the next thing that will be illegal be the removal of spy ware kookies? will people who remove them be tracked down by the add companies and taken to court for disabling their spy ware on the grounds that they were only doing their job for a...
[October 13, 2003, 13:30]
Pushing 'shift' draws lawsuit
Talkback How many man months/yrs invested in development time, and a simple shift key press disables a security feature SunnComm probably charged a client a lot of money for. Oh and by the way, can one define the "Shift Key" as being a distributed tool.
[October 10, 2003, 15:37]
Vista is pushing more people towards Linux
Talkback and I think that's great news. Apart from high end gaming and intensive video editing 90% of us have computers that are more than capable. We have great success using old PCs running Puppy Linux - people are amazed how fast a computer designed to...
[August 30, 2007, 11:16]
Microsoft 'pushing, pushing, pushing' in embedded arena
News We are pushing, pushing, pushing in this space and will be flexible on the pricing and licensing side where necessary," Ballmer said. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer admitted today that the software giant hasn't always been as committed to...
[February 7, 2001, 12:04]
A Year Ago: AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News The gigahertz race may be over, but don't count on the PC industry stopping just there According to PC makers, the computing public's hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner...
[March 9, 2001, 6:00]
AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz
News According to PC makers, the computing public's hunger for greater performance remains unabated -- and that means 1GHz, or 1,000MHz, processors will, sooner rather than later, be surpassed by even more powerful chips.
[March 9, 2000, 9:12]
Phishers pushing spyware through DNS holes
News Online thieves looking for personal data may be moving to more active measures by redirecting people from legitimate sites to malicious ones, security experts said this week. The warning follows reports Friday that some people's computers were...
[March 9, 2005, 8:25]
Smartcards 'pushing credit card crime to Australia'
News The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has raised the spectre of Australia becoming a haven for credit card criminals, in its latest research on electronic crime. According the institute's latest research on e-crime displacement trends...
[March 19, 2003, 8:26]
Pushing the envelope on IM
News Watch out browsers, bots, email and telephones -- here comes the next generation of instant messaging. Long associated with casual text-based conversations among teens and singles in America Online chat rooms, IM technology is now poised not only...
[July 31, 2001, 9:06]
Not 'pushing'...
Talkback It wasn't our intention to 'push' open source alternatives to Adobe's applications by publishing this article; rather, it was simply to remind people that such choices exist. We also specifically asked for feedback from graphics professionals who...
[April 30, 2007, 10:45]
Pushing Security to the Perimeter: Trusted Computing Technology Adapts to Changing Enterprise Needs
White Papers Security concerns, identity theft and regulatory compliance requirements are converging to drive the enterprise's need for strong identity and access management (IAM) solutions. These solutions can include enterprise single sign-on (SSO), legacy...
[August 28, 2009, 1:24]
Pushing water uphill
Talkback The movie moguls and such keep making big big noises about how poor they are and how these nasty hackers are making them poorer still, but nobody is really talking about the normal honest end users here.
[January 3, 2007, 12:41]
Credit cards pushing e-currency out of the picture
News A year after alternative e-currencies such as Beenz and Flooz burst onto the Web scene, their companies are conceding that a strategy shift was needed after surprisingly nimble credit card companies have overtaken the niche.
[December 13, 2000, 10:59]
