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A Healthy IT Outlook

Initiatives in digital handling of medical information, for example by the military, and driven by the lessons of large-scale natural disasters like this seasons...

Rootkit DRM Constitutes Security Malpractice

Sony BMG Music Entertainments use of a rootkit to hide its digital rights management software deep and undetectably within the operating system of users...

Company Takes Internet Address Names Beyond Dot-Com

Technology provider UnifiedRoot, based in Amsterdam, has begun leasing Internet addresses that can end in any word, rather than in .com, .org, .net or...

Autodesk Open-Sources Web Mapping Software

Autodesk Inc. plans to release the full code of MapServer Enterprise, its new Web mapping platform, to open source early next year. A snapshot of...

When Legal Strikes—Chaos Theory Meets DRM

A recent brouhaha over a bit of spyware Sony BMG included in some CDs to keep buyers from misappropriating the music raises important issues...

BitTorrent Makes Up With Hollywood

The creator of the BitTorrent file-sharing system has agreed to bar users of the service from trading unauthorized copies of materials owned by the...

Legal Analyst Sees Defects in Microsoft Open XML Initiative

Microsofts open standard Office XML format announcement may not be that big a deal, according to one standards attorney. When Microsoft announced Monday that it...

Verizon Wireless Sues Another Spammer

Unwanted text messages from a Florida-based travel company were sent recently to 98,000 Verizon Wireless customers, according to a new lawsuit filed by the...

Provias Web Services Simplify Warehouse Management

Provia Software Inc. is targeting a new release of its warehouse management system software, launched on Monday, at business and IT managers alike. The distributed...

TiVo Handheld Device Software Draws Ire at TV Network

TiVo Inc. announced this week that new software it plans to make available next year will allow users to download TV shows and films...