A new Amazon.com Inc. service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle. Amazon's Cloud Drive allows customers to store about 1,000 songs on the company's Web servers for free instead of their own hard drives and play them over an Internet connection directly from Web browsers and on phones running Google Inc.'s Android software.
After complaints by Israeli government officials and Jewish organizations in the United States, Facebook took down a page by Palestinian supporters that called for violence against Jews and an uprising against Israel. The page, entitled “Third Palestinian Intifada,” began earlier this month as a call for peaceful protests in the occupied Palestinian territories on May 15, one of more than a dozen Facebook pages that have been used in recent months to mobilize uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa.
Researchers disclosed on a public security e-mail list three vulnerabilities in the Web site of security firm McAfee, whose site has been found to have bugs several times before. The YGN Ethical Hacker Group told the Full Disclosure list that it had reported the problems to McAfee on February 10 and two days later the company said it was working to resolve them.
Nokia Oyj filed a second complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission over claims that Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other products copied its technology, less than a week after Apple won a ruling in a similar case. The new complaint involves seven patents that Nokia said Apple is using “to create key features in its products in the areas of multi-tasking operating systems, data synchronization, positioning, call quality and the use of Bluetooth accessories,” the Espoo, Finland-based handset maker said.
As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites. McAfee Inc., acquired last month by Intel Corp., has provided content-filtering software used by Internet-service providers in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, according to interviews with buyers and a regional reseller.
Companies like Time Warner Cable and Cablevision buy the rights to beam channels to customers’ television sets. But do those rights extend to iPads? That question has divided the television industry in recent weeks, ever since Time Warner Cable started streaming several dozen TV channels to customers’ iPads.
For years the United States and Europe, with around 700 million Internet users between them, have diverged in their approach to policing the Web. But the two sides are converging in their Web privacy positions, partly through intensive meetings in recent months between regulators from Washington and Brussels.
An individual claiming responsibility for generating bogus SSL certificates for Google, Skype, Microsoft Live and Yahoo has identified himself, and surprise, it's not the Iranian Cyber Army. The Comodo attack was not the act of an organized, state-sponsored organization, but a lone hacker interested in bringing down the SSL root certificate system, according to a rambling message filled with grammatical and spelling errors posted online.
Cybercriminals are increasingly moving from stealing just personal data to capturing trade secrets and other corporate intellectual capital that they can easily sell through the underground market, according to a new report from McAfee and the SAIC. In the release of a new study, "Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency", McAfee and the Science Applications International Corporate find that the theft of trade secrets, marketing plans, R&D data, and even source code is on the rise, especially as such information is often unprotected.
India will seek to block the internet's newly-formed red-light district after a global agency governing the web approved .xxx suffix for pornography websites, a senior government official said. "India along with many other countries from the Middle East and Indonesia opposed the grant of the domain in the first place, and we would proceed to block the whole domain, as it goes against the IT Act and Indian laws," said a senior official at the ministry of IT.
Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they'll be able to hit the "panic button" -- a special app that will both wipe out the phone's address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists. The panic button is one of the new technologies the U.S. State Department is promoting to equip pro-democracy activists in countries ranging from the Middle East to China with the tools to fight back against repressive governments.
A U.S. trade panel judge sided with Apple Inc. in a patent dispute with Nokia Corp., making an initial determination that technology used in popular devices like iPhones and iPods doesn't infringe on the Finnish cellphone maker's patents. James Gildea, an administrative law judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission, found that Apple didn't violate a range of Nokia patents.
Eastman Kodak Co. won the latest round in its patent dispute with Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd., a victory with the potential to generate more than $1 billion in new licensing revenue for the camera company. Kodak rose as much as 25 percent in late trading after the U.S. International Trade Commission said it will review a judge’s findings from January that Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry don’t violate Kodak’s patent on a way to preview digital images using less processing power and storage space.
Chinese online-search provider Baidu Inc. said it plans to start using new copyright-recognition technology on its online document-sharing platform in May to prevent sharing of pirated content. The company has been at odds with the music industry for years over an MP3 search service that includes links to unlicensed copies of songs available for free download.
An adviser to the highest European Union court recommended that some restrictions be placed on the rights of advertisers to use the names of rivals as keywords to generate sponsored links on Internet search engines. If the court goes along with the opinion, the decision could make some advertisers more cautious in their purchase of the search ads on Google, one of the fastest-growing areas of marketing in recent years, analysts said.
The American hacker who unlocked Sony's PS3 has denied fleeing the country to avoid legal action. George Hotz, also known as Geohot, said his trip had been planned for months and added that he was still in contact with his lawyers.
Facebook and Twitter appear stymied about how to slow a rising tide of poisoned web links seeping into all popular social networks. A recent experiment by network security firm Dasient underscored just how easy it is for anyone to create a new social network account, then use the fresh account to circulate malicious links all across the service.
A malicious attacker that appears to be the Iranian government managed to obtain supposedly secure digital certificates that can be used to impersonate Google, Yahoo, Skype, and other major Web sites, the security company affected by the breach said. Comodo, a Jersey City, N.J.-based firm that issues digital certificates, said the nine certificates were fraudulently obtained, including one for Microsoft's Live.com, have already been revoked.
Apple has fired another legal salvo over the use of the term "app store," this one targeted at adult app store MiKandi. In an interview with GeekWire, fellow MiKandi co-founder Jesse Adams said that Apple specifically asked the company to stop billing itself as the "world's first app store for adults" and to stop using the term "app store" in describing its own free Android app.
Four Democratic senators want to short-circuit software applications that allow drivers to identify police drunken-driving checkpoints. In a letter, the senators asked Apple, Google and Blackberry to either disable or quit selling downloadable applications that allow iPhone and iPad, Blackberry and Android operating systems to identify locations of local police DUI crackdowns.
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