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Sony Deals With More DRM-Related Bad News

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Just days after Sony decided to drop its controversial anti-piracy software on its CDs, more bad news has surfaced for the music giant: Sony’s uninstall program makes the computer even more vulnerable to malware. Princeton researcher J. Alex Halderman posted instructions for how to find out if your PC is infected at the Freedom Tinker…

Sony Sets Sites on Skype With Internet-Based Phone Service

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sony this week said it would venture into the world of Voice over Internet Protocol — with a twist. The electronics giant is partnering with Glowpoint to offer a new consumer version of Sony’s Instant Video Everywhere (IVE) service featuring free, unlimited video and voice service for consumers worldwide. Sony said the IVE service combines…

Sony’s Latest Headache: Copyright Infringement Allegations

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

It’s been a long two weeks for Sony. In the latest development in the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software saga, the music giant’s applicationhas allegedly infringed on others’ copyrights. Jon Lech Johansen, better known as DVD Jon, claims in his blog that the XCP software from First4Internet that Sony used to prevent unauthorized copying of…

Sony, HP, Apple, Google: Who is on Your Side?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Continuing with a theme, this week I’d like to focus on companies that misact with respect to consumer rights. Last week we went into some detail on Sony’s despicable recent actions which compromised consumers’ rights and safety. This is all related to the idea that power corrupts. As the time comes to make your holiday…

Lawsuits, Copyright Pilfering Allegations Added to Sony CD Snafu

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

What began as a promising way to protect CDs from piracy has become a public relations nightmare for Sony BMG Entertainment and its digital rights management (DRM) partners, First 4 Internet (F4I) and SunnComm. The new lawsuits leveled at Sony BMG stem from its sale of audio CDs protected with a scheme developed by F4I…

Changing the Tech Market as We Know It

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In the month of November, three things happened nearly back-to-back that have had significant effects on the technology landscape. The first was the Sony rootkit fiasco, which may have changed the software arena forever. The second was the acquisition by Cisco of Scientific-Atlanta, in what was likely the WMD targeted at the digital home. And…

Holographic Storage Disc Coming by End of Next Year

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

While Sony (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) go head-to-head with competing high-definition DVD technology, Hitachi-Maxell and InPhase Technologies are working on a disc that will hold 300GB of information, or six times what either of the other discs can store. Hitachi is calling their technology a tapestry holographic disc, but the technology is generally called a…

Curious Moves on the P2P Playing Field

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A filmmaker in India believes he’s hit on the perfect DRM (Digital Restriction Management) solution: hiding secret coding in “every single print.” So suggests producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala, quoted by the Times of India. Along with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan has taken on a role as a Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)…

Industry Move to 100M WiFi Hits a Bump

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Those who enjoy intrigue may be quite satisfied with developments in the WiFi market. Two years ago, vendors started working on a standard, dubbed 802.11n, to boost the top transmission speed from 54M bps to 100M bps. That work developed into a deadlock between two competing groups: World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) and TGn Sync. As…

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