Colourful internet identity Kim Dotcom is forging ahead with plans to launch his new Mega file storage website on the Australian or New Zealand stock markets. The German-born internet entrepreneur, who faces possible extradition to the US ...
iiNET chief Michael Malone believes Apple faces increasing pressure to release a bigger slice of the iPhone pie and that it will need to settle its acrimonious patent battles with its rivals. He also believes the federal ...
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The Recording Industry Association of America said Google's policy to demote pirate websites in search rankings was not working. Google said in August last year that it was adding the number of valid copyright removal notices received for ...
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GOOGLE'S revamping of its search formula last year failed so far to live up to its promise of discouraging consumers from visiting illegal music websites, an industry group says. A report released this week by the Recording Industry ...
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Microsoft is losing out on up to $2.5bn (£1.6bn) of revenue by not rolling out its Microsoft Office suite to Apple tablets, a Morgan Stanley analyst has calculated. "Our conversations lead us to believe Microsoft will price for ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. The move is ...
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Excel Software announced Safe Activation was integrated with over a dozen online shopping cart and payment services. Safe Activation is an online activation server that automates the activation and licensing process for protected software, ...
Six years after its long-delayed but well-publicized release, Windows Vista now accounts for less than 6% of all Windows machines, a metrics company said earlier this month. According to Net Applications, Vista's usage share of all ...
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Online activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January U.S. lawmakers recently pledged to rewrite an antihacking law as hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to mourn the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. ...
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A French website collecting links to content stored on the Mega file-sharing service is experiencing trouble in what may be an effort by Kim Dotcom's latest enterprise to avoid concerns over illegal file sharing. The website, ...
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U.S. phone unlocking services face the biggest legal risk from mobile operators keen to enforce a change in copyright law that now makes it illegal to modify a mobile device to work on another network, according to the Electronic Frontier ...
Microsoft has identified 13 PC resellers based in Shanghai that it claims have been distributing counterfeit versions of its Windows OS, and the company could take legal action against them if a settlement isn't reached. Microsoft made ...
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Kim Dotcom, the man behind the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload, has launched a new service called Mega. Like Megaupload, which was shut down following polie raids on Dotcom's New Zealand mansion in January 2012, Mega is a web ...
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STMicroelectronics has announced that its “Liege” set-top box chipsets have received security certification from Conax, a supplier of conditional access solutions for digital TV. Conax's Contego content protection platform ...
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Indicted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom launched a new file-sharing website today, promising users amped-up privacy levels in a defiant move against the US prosecutors who accuse him of facilitating massive online piracy. The colourful ...