Consumer rights groups have voiced opposition to legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress last week that would require Internet broadcasters to deploy DRM (digital rights management) technology to prevent listeners from making unauthorized copies of...
Proposed RSS
A well-known Microsoft Corp. Web logger Tuesday downplayed the proposed use of a new name for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) following several days of intense discussion about...
The top judge of the European Union's second-highest court has proposed changing judges in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, according to a letter sent to all parties in the case. The move, shared with Reuters...
Users disgruntled with Apple's iPod battery claims may soon have relief. A court has conditionally approved a settlement in a class action suit brought against Apple Computer by several consumers who claim...
Microsoft Corp. today stated that its proposals to settle the European Commission investigation would have provided more choices for European consumers and more opportunity for software companies than the official decision announced today in Brussels,...
European Union officials are proposing to spend more than £30m to try to make the internet safer for children. The four-year plan has been put forward by the European Commission. The program, which...
A handful of tech-savvy senators are tackling the growing problem of spyware with a proposed law that would make it harder for sites to inflict the invasive programs on unwitting users, and easier for the...
Thanks Tony White for the heads up. HP has entered into a proposed national class action settlement of claims related to the purchase of the HP DVD 100i. Hewlett-Packard's Proposed Settlement Provides No Relief for...
Creditors of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. on Monday approved a proposed $3.8 billion deal to sell the troubled South Korean chipmaker's memory operations to U.S. rival Micron Technology Inc. The decision cleared the first...
Thanks to Slashdot for this pointer to a story over on Wired. Music CDs equipped with copy protection will, if Rick Boucher gets his wish, soon be as obsolete as eight-track cassettes....
