NEW YORK — Big Media took its first big swing at YouTube Tuesday as Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, VH1, Comedy Central and other cable networks filed a $1-billion copyright lawsuit against the video-sharing site and corporate owner Google Inc.
The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation of long-simmering tensions between Viacom and YouTube and represents [...]
It seems Dell has decided to look a little deeper into Linux as an operating system option. They’ve set up a survey to help determine how they should prioritize their resources. The six questions range in topic from; “What you’d use your new Dell with factory installed linux for?” to, “Which distribution would you want [...]
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Internet’s key site identity system is in mounting danger from new techniques that could cause havoc by turning it into a free-for-all market, the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO warned on Monday.
And the
United Nations’ agency said the latest trends in registering top-level domain names (TLDs) — like www.reuters.com — could undermine [...]
Mozilla Corp. is still wrestling with adding a security feature to Firefox that its browser rival, Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer 7, uses on Windows Vista to keep malware from hijacking computers. In Vista, IE7 uses a technique Microsoft calls Protected Mode — another name for “low rights” — that blocks disk access to all but [...]
OpenID is an open decentralized digital identity system that has been gaining traction in recent months. It implements a solution to some everyday headaches such as single-sign-on, but it does not address related issues like privacy, trust, spam…
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Source: Introduction to OpenID
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