News tagged with copy protection software

Sony adopting industry standard for e-books

Sony, in a challenge to Amazon's Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format.

Technology / Software

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Customised computing clouds on the horizon

Cloud services currently on the market do not provide sufficient security. According to one Norwegian research scientist, users are better off forming cloud computing ties among their circle of friends, family, ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lost data may have exposed 800,000 people in Calif

(AP) -- A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California's child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US Forest Service research used in new, invasive-plant software

U.S. Forest Service research and funding have led to the development of a free software application that will help people identify and control destructive invasive plants in Southern forests and grasslands.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colorado woman must turn over computer hard drive

(AP) -- Readily available, easy-to-use software can encrypt a computer hard drive so thoroughly it would take years for a hacker to break in. But that seems to be no impediment for government prosecutors, who have obtained ...

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created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Guns and Androids: Pakistan air force making iPads

(AP) -- Inside a high-security air force complex that builds jet fighters and weapons systems, Pakistan's military is working on the latest addition to its sprawling commercial empire: a homegrown version ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

NJ programmer freed as NY court orders acquittal

(AP) -- A smiling former Goldman Sachs computer programmer was freed from prison Friday after a surprise ruling from a federal appeals court reversed his conviction on charges he stole computer code.

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

File sharing group seen as religious in Sweden

(AP) -- A file-sharing group that considers itself a spiritual organization said Thursday that Sweden has recognized it as a religious community.

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Cloud computing's ubiquity brings down prices

If you've ever had your laptop stolen, watched your toddler baptize your PC with Pepsi, or had your MacBook come to a cold, dead stop, you know that the digital memories we store on our home computers are anything but indelible.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Hewlett-Packard offers fix for printers susceptible to remote hacks

Hewlett-Packard released a firmware update Friday that it says will fix a susceptibility in some of the Palo Alto, Calif., company's popular LaserJet printers that researchers said could allow hackers to remotely take control o ...

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created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Protecting computers at start-up: New NIST guidelines

A new draft computer security publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides guidance for vendors and security professionals as they work to protect personal computers as they start up.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3


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