[infowarrior] - Dan Goodin: Boycott Sony

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
Boycott Sony By Dan Goodin Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69559,00.html 02:00 AM Nov. 14, 2005 PT After weeks of criticism, Sony has finally agreed to temporarily stand down on an abusive and likely illegal copy restriction practice. Hold the applause. On Friday, the

[infowarrior] - Google to offer web traffic analysis services

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
Google to offer web traffic analysis services http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051114-5563.html 11/14/2005 12:21:30 AM, by Ryan Paul Google has officially launched Analytics, a robust new web analysis system that provides site owners with traffic metrics and massive amounts of useful

[infowarrior] - Secrecy Is Infectious: Bill Would Shield Biomedical Research

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
Secrecy Is Infectious: Bill Would Shield Biomedical Research http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111300 861_pf.html Monday, November 14, 2005; A19 Sen. Richard Burr's cure for infectious-disease outbreaks and dangerous bioterrorism agents includes a big dose of g

[infowarrior] - Marl Rasch: Sony's legal issues

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
Sony's legal issues Mark Rasch, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/369?ref=rss Last month I wrote about a dispute between the Federal Trade Commission and a spyware distributor where the FTC alleged that an End User License Agreement, which essentially told downloaders that they were downloa

[infowarrior] - Sony Shipping Spyware from SunnComm, Too

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
Sony Shipping Spyware from SunnComm, Too Saturday November 12, 2005 by J. Alex Halderman Now that virus writers have started exploiting the rootkit built into Sony-BMG albums that utilize First4Internet¹s XCP DRM (as I warned they would last week), Sony has at last agreed to temporarily stop ship

[infowarrior] - Doctorow's Sony fiasco timeline

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
(No, this list has not morphed into the Sony-Watch list, but as you can imagine, I feel quite strongly about this latest salvo in the DRM/IP industry, and am passing on items-of-interest.rf) Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line Since Hallowe'en, we've been posting the deta

[infowarrior] - UltraSPARC T1 Fires Up Sun

2005-11-14 Thread Richard Forno
UltraSPARC T1 Fires Up Sun http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1885884,00.asp November 14, 2005 Interview: Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy talks about the role that the UltraSPARC T1 plays in Sun's evolution into a systems vendor for customers of all sizes. UltraSPARC T1 marks another ste