U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. The 100-page report, ...
Tags: IP, US, Computer Products
DURANGO, Infinity, 720, whatever the name, it seems clear Microsoft will launch the next generation Xbox console on Wednesday. It's been nearly eight years since the Xbox 360 was launched and while it's had its ups and downs, there can be ...
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday. Consumers should be protected ...
China's reputation for security may have been marred by recent U.S. accusations of state-sponsored hacking but the nation is still a safe place as a tech subcontractor for foreign businesses, according to one of China's largest IT ...
Tags: Computer Products, IT, IT outsourcing
Virtual blueprints for the world's first 3D printable handgun have found a safe harbour at file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, dodging a US government attempt to pull them off the internet. Defense Distributed, a Texas nonprofit that ...
Tags: 3D Gun, Computer Products
Image courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. The World Customs Organisation and GS1 will be present at the upcoming 7th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from ...
In the midst of its latest campaign to fight piracy in China, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Lenovo to ensure that its PCs ship with licensed versions of Windows software on its computers As part of the agreement signed Tuesday, ...
The CFDA and eBay have joined forces for a third year to support the “You Can’t Fake Fashion” initiative to raise awareness against counterfeits and maintain the protection and integrity of original fashion designs. The ...
Tags: fashion designs, fashion industry, fashion
The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chinese hackers and using it to design components for military helicopters. Wronald Best, 55, ...
Tags: pirated software, software, computer code
Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...
The shutdown of Megaupload caused an increase in digital sales and rentals of movies, according to a study by two researchers, which is likely to give a boost to the movie industry, which has typically blamed online cyberlockers and ...
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Pirated software is costing industry in excess of $114 billion, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Microsoft. Though many consumers and businesses purchase and download pirated software purposely as a way of saving money, the ...
New legislation in Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Internet freedom. The Global Free Internet Act, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and three ...
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The chance of infection by malware from counterfeit software is three in 10 for businesses, and one in three for consumers, according to a new study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by research firm IDC. Police prevented from ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
Tags: software ecosystem, ARM, microcontroller