Digital Rights Management
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India working on standard for biometrics
News Government looking at national standard to provide "level-playing field", as India readies e-government initiatives based on biometric technology.
Tags: Biometrics, Data security, Security applications/tools, Privacy, E-passport, E-government, Security, India, Information Security, Card
E-reader trend needs common standards
News More players eye piece of e-reader market, but consumers benefit only if readers are built to support one common standard, say industry players.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Standards, E-book, Spokesperson, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
Do we need GPLv3?
Insight perspective Version 3 of the General Public License is clearer than its predecessor in many ways, but does that mean you should use it? A legal expert discusses the pros and cons.
Tags: Open source, Software licensing, Microsoft Corp., Version, Open-source Software, GPL, GPLv3, Termination Provision, software, digital-rights management
In remembrance: DRMs
Blogs Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore. Several persons spoke about...
Adobe offers CinemaDNG format for raw video
News Company releases a beta version of a file format for higher-end video. Also out is a beta of Adobe Story for writing scripts.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Adobe Systems Inc., Foundry Networks Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Video, SLR, Digital media, Adobe Premiere, digital-rights management
Utopic world of free-for-all content
Blogs Hi, my name is Eileen Yu, and I'm a Barry Manilow fan. All right, there, I've said it. I'm a huge, big, out-of-this-...
iPREPpress Miriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Windows)
Product Reviews iPREPpress Miriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Windows)
Tags: Apple Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, iPrepPress, performance, Apple iPod, external hard drive, digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows, disk
iPrepPress Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Mac)
Product Reviews iPrepPress Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Mac)
Tags: Apple Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, Apple Macintosh, iPrepPress, performance, Apple iPod, external hard drive, digital-rights management, disk
iPREPpress Miriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Windows)
Product Reviews iPREPpress Miriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary for iPod (Windows)
Tags: Apple Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, iPrepPress, performance, Apple iPod, external hard drive, digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows, disk
EA to offer 'Spore' DRM-free
News It will be one of several titles distributed via Valve's Steam platform. The move is likely to win EA points with gamers.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Games, Video Game, Gamer, Electronics, FIFA, Electronic Arts Inc., digital-rights management, News.com, blog
YouTube unplugs music videos in UK
News In an unexpected move, 'premium' music videos on the Google-owned video-sharing site will no longer be accessible in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Music, Video, Copyright, Music Video, Apple iTunes, Google Inc., PRS, YouTube Inc., digital-rights management, U.K.
P2P music sharing needs regulation to work
News Government legislation and a reliable royalty system must be implemented for peer-to-peer music file sharing networks to work in Asia, say industry watchers.
Tags: Peer to peer, Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Regulation, BayTSP, P2P, Japan, research director, digital-rights management, network
Shell warns employees of suspected data loss
News A vendor has lost its contract with Shell in the United States following the alleged misappropriation of employee social-security numbers.
Tags: Security, Employee, Database, Storage, removable storage, oil company, intrusion detection, digital-rights management, network, monitor
Microsoft 'betrayed' MSN Music customers
News MSN Music customers should be compensated over the elimination of the DRM technology from its Zune music player, claims an advocacy group of Internet users.
Tags: Music, Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Internet User, Customer, hard drive, digital-rights management, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Internet
Survey: Keyboards, DRM to become scarce in 2012
News Survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists and technologists about tech life in 2020 finds expectations of haptic and voice interfaces.
Tags: Keyboards and mice, Wireless e-mail devices, Cell Phone, Survey, Internet appliance, copy protection, economist, phone, virtual keyboard, keyboard
