Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Investments, News Corp., Copy Protection
NDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status.
News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 12 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Europe, USA, UK, Legal
You’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July.
He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges.
He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for the next […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 August 2008 | Tagged as: Security, China
Western journalists are now complaining that their access to the World Wide Web is being limited.
The Times asserts that the International Olympic Committee has ‘disclosed,’ that “A deal with Beijing has allowed the Chinese authorities to block sensitive Internet sites.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 17 July 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Security
In an ever-evolving story, Spammers are starting a new form of spam - News Spam. Email’s that look like they’re news stories but are indeed spam.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 30 June 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, Security, Web
Debit card for booze-hungry kids creates net shopping fears.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 June 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, Security, Web
Survey of instant messaging applications highlights security risks.
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 June 2008 | Tagged as: Microsoft, Copy Protection, User Generated Content (UGC)
What a blunt knife Microsoft’s DRM is. We don’t know if you’ve noticed before, but some time in the last, Microsoft made change to their Media Player, stopping screen grabs of videos that are playing.
Clearly Microsoft thought this would be something that would appeal to content owners in fear of their work being taken without […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 June 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Security
There appears to be a new type of spam attack, the focusing of an email blitz for a limited period of time - with a potentially high return for the spammer.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Security
Survey finds that 60% of business laptops remain unencrypted.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 23 May 2008 | Tagged as: Security, Web
Following the recent list of what PC Magazine claim are the 10 most commonly used passwords by computer users, in part one we started to look at how you can protect your passwords and keep your booty safe.
Microsoft Password Checker
Microsoft offers a handy Password Checker application that lets you input text to test the strength […]
