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Rugged Computing: The Consumer Trajectory

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The rugged-computing industry — which seeks to make computers compatible with environments that are at odds with delicate electronics — is one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile-computing marketplace. Surprisingly, research firm Venture Development estimates the rugged-computing market will reach US$6 billion in sales worldwide by 2005. As wireless technology has saturated the computing…

Symantec Moves Against Piracy with Product Activation Requirements

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

This week, security software developer Symantec announced Norton Antivirus 2004, the newest version of the company’s antivirus software. While this product will provide consumers with new kinds of protection against certain emerging nonvirus threats — such as spyware and keystroke-logging programs — what is particularly noteworthy about the announcement is that it marks a major…

P2P United Issues Code of Conduct, Calls on Congress for Help

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In an attempt to gain some legitimacy for its industry, a group of peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet companies has announced a “code of conduct.” The companies — collectively called P2P United — offer services that, among other things, allow people to exchange music files over the Web, a practice that has ignited a massive litigation campaign…

Napster Beta Ready To Rock ‘n’ Roll

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A brand synonomous with music piracy is about to reemerge from the scaly bosom of bankruptcy. A beta version of Napster, brought to its knees by music industry litigation over copyright violations, will be launched next Thursday by its white knight, Santa Clara, California-based Roxio. Roxio, well known for its CD-burning software for both PC…

IBM Enters the World of Rugged Computing

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The rugged-computing industry — which seeks to make computers compatible with environments that are at odds with delicate electronics — is one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile-computing marketplace. Surprisingly, research firm Venture Development estimates the rugged-computing market will reach US$6 billion in sales worldwide by 2005. As wireless technology has saturated the computing…

Despite DSL Pressure, Comcast Touts High-Speed Customer Gains

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cable giant Comcast increased the amount of attention directed toward broadband Internet services this week by announcing it had picked up nearly a half-million high-speed Internet customers in the last quarter — a 39 percent gain from last year’s third quarter. Comcast credited “integration success” for its gains in broadband Internet and video subscribers and…

MTV Wakes Up to Online Music

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

MTV, which sat on the sidelines while Apple, Napster and MusicMatch rushed into the online music market, has finally decided to get off the bench and enter the game. The Viacom-owned company said it will launch its own online music download service to compete with a list of players that seems to grow almost daily.…

U.S. Congress: P2P E-Smut ‘Not Necessarily’ More Dangerous than Other Forms

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Smut distributed through peer-to-peer networks isn’t inherently more dangerous than titillating matter found elsewhere on the Internet. That was one of several findings by the research arm of the U.S. Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO), in a letter responding to written inquiries by the Senate Judiciary Committee following the panel’s hearings in September on…

Scheme Hatched To Counter Digital Rights Balkanization

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A scheme to counter the Balkanization of digital rights management (DRM) on the Internet was unveiled Wednesday by a standards group whose members include ARM, ContentGuard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Universal Music Group and VeriSign. The group — called the Content Reference Forum (CRF) — has posted specifications that it asserts will…

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