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RealNetworks Inc.s Helix DRM (Digital Rights Management) software has received FCC approval for secure playback and storage of digital broadcast content over a users trusted local network. Helix DRM includes the Helix DRM Trusted Recorder, which allows for recording of broadcast flag-enabled content that can then be played back using a Helix DRM trusted client. […]

Web and e-mail filtering company SurfControl Plc. has identified a pair of e-mail messages purporting to be from the John Kerry presidential campaign. The subject line for each e-mail was, “President John Kerry, please vote and contribute.” Users who clicked through to a URL that appears to be “http://www.johnkerry-edwards.org/contribute.htm” would find an official-looking site where […]

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Monday said that it had squeezed a VGA-quality display into just 2.6 inches, providing a framework for delivering high-definition video content on a cell phone. Samsungs TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD uses amorphous silicon, a technology that the company once expected would not be able to deliver the resolution needed. However, […]

A number of storage vendors made storage announcements at last weeks LinuxWorld conference. Applied Micro Circuits Corp. last week announced its 3ware 9000 Series SATA RAID controllers with Linux Kernel 2.6.x and the XFS File System. The new controllers support single arrays of up to 4.8 TB via 64 bit LBAs on one controller. Veritas […]

Storage Technology Corp. recently said its T-Series tape drive product roadmap includes providing 1TB of native data storage on a single media cartridge by 2007. The company also said it will increase data throughput to maintain or reduce the total backup time per cartridge. StorageTek is developing its tape carriage technology with Imation and Fujifilm. […]

EMC Corp. is counting on a multipronged strategy to lower its employee health care costs. A year into its effort, the company said it can already see a payoff with its “consumerist” strategy that encourages its workers to take greater responsibility for their health and their health care costs. The centerpiece of its efforts is […]

Vacation season is the time of year when tourists fall in love with their destinations. They begin to dream of buying beach bungalows or mountain hideaways. They dont want to disrupt their vacations with days of house hunting. So they turn to technology. The Web and e-mail make it easier for people to shop for […]

Security experts this week said a backdoor Trojan horse program dubbed Backdoor.Bardor.a is out to infect the Windows CE operating systems of Pocket PCs. The Trojan sends the attacker the IP address of the handheld device and then waits for further instructions from the attacker. Symantec said the Trojan backdoor is a first for Windows […]

Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act fell to just 0.54 percent in July, according to a study by MX Logic Inc., an email security company. This is the lowest monthly compliance since the law went into effect on Jan. 1. “The law provides a definition of legally unacceptable email marketing practices and empowers consumer protection agencies […]

The State Department is moving ahead with a plan to implant electronic identification chips in U.S. passports that will allow computer matching of facial characteristics. A chip woven into the cover of the passport would contain a digital photograph of the travelers face. But federal researchers who have tested face-recognition technology say its error rate […]

The Federal Communications Commission this week said it would set up a list of Internet domains used by mobile phone carriers to help keep spam messages off mobile phones. The list would consist of domain names such as sprintpcs.com, and not the names of individual accounts, such as customer@sprintpcs.com. Congress passed a law last year […]

Intel Corp. this week announced a new storage processor that improves RAID storage performance over previous generations. The IOP332 Storage I/O Processor employs DDR2 400 memory and the fastest Intel XScale core at 800 MHz to increase the speed of RAID5 data storage and recovery, the company said. DDR2 400 memory technology will have a […]