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Tele-justice bridges India's courts and jails
News Indian government plans to connect 300 jails and 2,000 courts through video-conferencing, allowing inmates and court officials to communicate via a video link.
Tags: Video
Russian programmer out on bail
News Three weeks after his arrest, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is out on bail.
Microsoft presents alternative facts in closing
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Judge seals courtroom in MPAA DVD-copying case
News DVD Copy Control Association says public should be barred from the courtroom because information about the technology used to encrypt DVDs is a trade secret.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Courtroom, Haiku, U.S. Circuit Court, RealNetworks Inc., attorney, DVD-copying, Marilyn Patel, CSS, DVD
Real CEO acknowledges RealDVD will copy rentals
News During RealDVD hearing, Rob Glaser says studios could help prevent the illegal copying of rented DVDs by helping devices recognize those discs as rentals.
Tags: Piracy, Video, RealNetworks Inc., DVD, copyright violation, Associated Press, MPAA, movie, hard drive, America
RealNetworks continues to develop DVD-copying device
News Though a judge made decide to retain a ban on sales of Real's DVD-copying technology, the company continues to develop film-copying device.
Tags: DVD, RealNetworks Inc., DVD-copying, Sales, DVD, MPAA, job posting, job, Hollywood, industry
What to expect from the RealDVD decision
News Judge is known for delivering relatively speedy decisions. But, even if Real loses in this preceding, company could still prevail at trial. We have a long way to go yet.
Tags: Lawsuits, Piracy, Video, Marilyn Hall Patel, Backup, Napster Inc., attorney, RealDVD, Real, Ben Sheffner
US mulls antitrust challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
News The U.S. Department of Justice has hired an antitrust litigator to head any legal action over the planned search-ad partnership, according to reports.
Tags: Antitrust, Legal, Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Yahoo Search
RealDVD case: Real introduces surprise witness
News Former Microsoft exec disputes that Hollywood banned DVD copying in license for Content Scramble System.
Tags: Copyright, Piracy, Lawsuits, Intel Corp., Google Inc., Marilyn Patel, DVD, computer, movie, software
Microsoft's claim to "Windows" doubted
News Microsoft suffers a minor setback when a judge questions its claim to the word "Windows"--and defenestrates Microsoft's request to shut down the Lindows site.
SAP may sell TomorrowNow
News SAP announces it may put embattled third-party support and maintenance company up for sale; subsidiary's founder and several executives have resigned effective immediately.
Tags: Business applications
"Plausible benefit" is key phrase in Microsoft trial
News The federal antitrust trial with Microsoft has waged for months, and the case now could be boiling down to a question of "plausible benefit" for consumers.
Google: Microsoft suit a 'charade'
News Search king claims lawsuit over former exec jumping ship is about scaring other Redmond employees into staying put.
Merger may hinge on Capellas journal
News A short but shocking missive could play a pivotal role in dissident shareholder Walter Hewlett's efforts to block the planned merger of computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
Sasser virus writer admits guilt in trial
News German teenager stood trial yesterday, a year after being arrested and admitting to writing the damaging worm which caused havoc in early 2004.
Tags: PC security, Network security, Viruses and worms
