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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback The only restriction is that to view pictures from your web cam, your friends will also have to be running the IM software. The easiest way to let your friends / colleagues access a web cam that is connected to your laptop while on a WiFi train is...
[February 7, 2004, 12:25]
New Passport Privacy Tied To IE 6
News The same restriction would apply to older versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft will soon be offering better privacy and security for online consumers, but at a price: exclusive use -- for now -- of the company's forthcoming Internet Explorer...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
Internet2 Used For File-swapping
News Some universities put a restriction on commodity Internet line speeds but don't put any restriction on Internet2," said "Ttol," one of the students managing the project. It has drawn rave reviews on student Web sites and from users but has already...
[April 30, 2004, 8:55]
How Your Boss Is Helping Us Grow MyMobiSafe.com…
Blog I was working for a big name U.S.wireless provider (which I’ll leave nameless but will refer to as Orange) and it seemed like everyday there would be a new restriction placed on internet usage. If you use the mobile web, chances are you want a...
[June 12, 2007, 19:15]
Greenpeace Clashes With Apple Over Toxic Waste
News The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which limits the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, went into force in the UK on the 1 July and should go some way towards forcing the IT...
[August 29, 2006, 13:00]
Sony Plans Patch After DRM Rootkit Row
News In consequence, it will also prevent virus writers from cloaking their work using the copy-restriction tools. The patch that First 4 Internet is providing to antivirus companies will eliminate the rootkit's ability to hide itself and the copy...
[November 3, 2005, 10:10]
Rootkits Epidemic Threatens Users
News Companies that have turned to the use of such technology include record label Sony BMG, which used it to hide copy-restriction code, and Symantec, which later stepped back from using it in its Norton SystemWorks
[April 18, 2006, 9:55]
VMware Security Bug Exposed On Eve Of VMworld
News Path traversal vulnerabilities" like this, also found in web server software and web applications, generally involve the specification of pathnames that include the ".substring to escape out of folder access restriction.
[February 25, 2008, 13:00]
US Stricter Than Europe At Monitoring Kids Online
News On a global scale, two-thirds of the 10,000 children with home Internet access questioned have no restriction on the amount of time that they are spending online, or on the content that they are viewing.
[November 29, 2000, 15:04]
DVD Jon Modifies Google Video Viewer
News Jon Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, on Tuesday posted code, which requirs a .Net runtime to work, on his Web site that he said removes that restriction. Google introduced the Video Viewer on Monday as part of a Web-based video search service that...
[June 30, 2005, 10:30]
Sony CD Protection Sparks Spyware Row
News Web site that answers questions about the company’s copy restriction tools. The creator of the copy-restriction software, a British company called First 4 Internet, said the cloaking mechanism was not a risk, and that its team worked closely with...
[November 2, 2005, 12:15]
Excite@Home Keeps A 'video Collar'
News I think what [the restriction] tells us about them simply confirms what we've been saying all along," Raposa said, "is that they intend to use access to control content. Part of the genesis of the 10 minute restriction was from the concern that...
[November 1, 1999, 7:52]
Worlds Collide In IBM-VA Software Deal
News Open-source software -- the Linux operating system being the best-known example -- may be scrutinised, changed, redistributed with no restriction. SourceForge will use IBM's DB2 database software to keep track of the data in the repository and...
[August 13, 2002, 13:30]
Sony Rootkit Remover On The Rocks
News DRM stands for digital rights management, a type of copy-restriction technology. Some security experts are advising people who think they might have used Sony's uninstall tool to use the Firefox Web browser, which does not support automatic ActiveX...
[November 17, 2005, 8:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He, like my friend, like me and like everyone I talk to, know of no such restriction - indeed, the Conditions of Carriage on the Transport for London website says that you can’t use flash or tripod. Police constables as web censors!
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
US Praises DeCSS Non-publication Decision
News Those parties filed a series of briefs on behalf of 2600 two weeks ago, in an attempt to convince the appeals court that Kaplan's ruling is an overly broad restriction on free speech that threatens Web journalism and tech research.
[February 23, 2001, 8:39]
Virtual Worlds, Real Problems
Leader By creating the tools, environment and, most importantly, the structure to allow everyone to innovate without restriction, such a company could both create and dominate the market, while not being evil about it.
[June 11, 2007, 17:40]
BT Bundles Smartphone With Home Broadband
News Obviously, the work environment would be where the restriction is but, essentially, if there's an Exchange Server environment, there's no reason why a BT ToGo Total Broadband customer [couldn't get their work email on the device]," he added.
[May 9, 2008, 9:11]
DRM Is Failing, MPs Told
News Last year, Sony shipped music CDs which contained copy-restriction software that used rootkit-like technology to hide itself. Lynn Holdsworth, a visually impaired member of the RNIB Web management team, told the MPs that she had bought an e-book...
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Hacker Mitnick Back Online
News Because of the Net restriction, friends handled all details of the auction. Mitnick said he would first go to the Web site of his girlfriend, Darci Wood, a former TechTV producer. He also planned to visit the Web site of actor and producer Kevin...
[January 22, 2003, 14:50]
