control of the net in news
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News It's also happening as people's work and attentions are shifting from software that runs on their own PCs, and that they can control whether to install or upgrade, to software that runs online, such as through the Facebook or Google application... [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Since a vote narrowly accepted OOXML as a draft international standard, ISO is now in control of the specification. Photos: Eavesdropping on the net Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Frank Prengel, a Microsoft Windows Embedded developer evangelist, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the past, by allowing them access to the best software and... [17 Apr 2008]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News Criminal groups selling services online are increasingly threatening the fabric of the internet, as the size of the compromised networks of computers they control increases, VeriSign said. Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth... [26 Sep 2007]
Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database
News The judge said this should include visitors to the UK as well, with everyone being forced to give a DNA sample as they pass through passport control. He said: "If you're going to have a database like this it has to be universal otherwise you've got... [05 Sep 2007]
Berners-Lee: Internet must not discriminate
News World wide web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. Although he has previously voiced support for Net neutrality, Berners-Lee on... [02 Mar 2007]
Skype to get corporate security buddies?
News Skype is planning to announce a partnership with a security company to help organisations gain control over usage of the net telephony tool at work. Also, until the release of Skype 3.0 in December, there had been little administrators could do to... [01 Feb 2007]
VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012
News The US government has approved a much-debated deal which grants internet domain name registrar VeriSign control over the dot-com domain until 2012. The decision follows a lawsuit settlement reached back in March, when the Internet Corporation for... [05 Dec 2006]
CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead
News Others predict the battleground for control of the desktop is completely changing. All apps will be hosted on servers locally on the net. Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate IT... [08 Nov 2006]
Dodgy porn sites tap IE flaw
News Last week Microsoft confirmed a flaw in an ActiveX control related to multimedia. Attack code that exploits the flaw and could be used to hijack Windows PCs running IE 5 or IE 6 has been posted on the net. [20 Sep 2006]
Attack code alert over unpatched IE flaw
News The flaw is due to an error in an ActiveX control related to multimedia features and could be exploited by viewing a rigged web page, Symantec said in an alert sent to users of its DeepSight security intelligence service on Thursday. [15 Sep 2006]
Copyright tussle looming over online video?
News Michael Petricone, senior vice president for government affairs for the Consumer Electronics Association, said the proposal "would enable 'casters to gain very unprecedented control in the home and personal network environment, which would... [06 Sep 2006]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News In addition to asserting its plans to retain control over the internet's "root", the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorised, the Bush administration said it planned to maintain its supervision over Icann. [17 Aug 2006]
Hollywood ready for DVD burning
News Soon, people will be able to copy a digital movie onto a specially made DVD under rule changes expected to be adopted by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA), the group that produces the technology designed to prevent DVDs from being copied. [11 Aug 2006]
Has US online gambling had its chips?
News It's also intended to aid the political fortunes of Republicans who are worried about losing control of the House of Representatives in the November election. Net gambling "is a scourge on our society", said representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia... [12 Jul 2006]
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