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Nokia targets 300M services users by 2011
News Finnish phone maker looking beyond selling devices and wants 300 million users on its devices pulling cloud data within two years, says its corporate strategy chief.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data services, Mobile platforms, Facebook, Nokia Corp., London Business School, mobile, Broadband, chief development officer, device manufacturer
Mashups changing the face of copyright laws
News Copyright laws have to evolve to catch up with the rise of user-generated content and mashups from the digital generation, says law professor.
Tags: Copyright, Creative Commons, Asia, Singapore, intellectual property, printing, copyright law, mashup, professor, broadcaster
Time lawyers got to grips with encryption
Insight perspective Encryption is playing an increasingly important role, but in law its status is poorly defined. It's high time that changed, says U.K. legal expert.
Tags: Security Management, Authentication and encryption, Legal, Encryption, Copyright Protection, Computer, blog team, games console, Chameleon, payment
Measure project success with balanced metrics
Techguide Agree on the right metrics with your clients before the start of a project, so that they will get what they want.
Tags: Project management, Human resources, Metrics, Project, project manager, Mary, performance, financial, ease of use, finance
Microsoft pulls Windows 7 download tool
News Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open source code.
Tags: Open source, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., software, GPL, Tool, USB, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux
Windows 7 will allow downgrades too
News Software maker will let users of certain editions go back to Windows Vista or even Windows XP if they wish. The company says it's expanding Vista downgrade rights program a bit too.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., PC Company, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows 7, computer, volume-license, computer company, Microsoft Windows XP
Google's CEO calls economy 'pretty dire'
News Google's Eric Schmidt says his company is "not immune" to economic woes, and doesn't see the economy improving until 2010.
Tags: Internet advertising, Twitter, M&A, Morgan Stanley, Online Advertising, Google Inc., e-mail, IM, CEO, CPC
Ask CEO asks to leave
News The search company says that Jim Safka decided to leave after the recent death of his brother.
Tags: Web sites, Computer Associates International Inc., Ask.com, CEO, IAC/InterActive Corp., Wall Street Journal, U.S., CitySearch, president, Web sites
Microsoft releases beta of Morro antivirus
News The company has posted a beta of its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials, for testers in the United States, China, Israel and Brazil.
Tags: Antivirus software, Microsoft Windows, Rootkit, Mary Jo Foley, antivirus, Ina Fried, Beta, antipiracy, ZDNet, U.S.
'Gumblar' Web attacks spreading quickly
News Malicious code known as "Gumblar" or "Troj/JSRedir-R", which infects Web sites, was first detected in March. Defying security experts' expectations, it is growing rapidly instead of dying out.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Adobe Systems Inc., ScanSafe, Security, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Domain, Sophos Plc., Google Inc., Attack, Adobe Acrobat
P2P bill could regulate Web browsers, FTP clients
News Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to regulate peer-to-peer networks goes a bit further than its sponsors may have intended.
Tags: Peer to peer, Web browsers, Legal, Web Browser, P2P, computer, software, IM, network, East Coast
Microsoft, Linux Foundation find common ground
News The two parties may disagree on many issues, but are united in opposition to a law group's effort to add an implied warranty to the software industry.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley, TomTom, software company, software, blog, Linux
Encarta's demise speaks volumes
Insight perspective Microsoft's decision to shelve its Encarta multimedia encyclopedia contains an important lesson, industry watcher points out.
Tags: Copyright, Multimedia, Digital media, Database, Encarta.com, computer, Digital media, intellectual property, multimedia, disk
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
News A Microsoft patent application details a business model whereby the user gets a free or heavily subsidized PC but is charged for usage time, application and performance.
Tags: Patents, Personal Computers, Consumer Technology, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Performance Level, Graphics, Computer, performance, software
10+ tips for working smarter with SQL
Techguide The sharper your SQL skills become, the more robust and error-free your solutions will be. Here are a dozen practical tips to get you started.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Column, Clause, Table, Value, Statement, Record, SQL, Goto, Microsoft VBA
