Op ZDNet kunnen we lezen dat het schikkingsvoorstel dat Microsoft vorig jaar met negen Amerikaanse staten heeft overeengekomen, vandaag grotendeels is goedgekeurd door een Amerikaanse rechter. Met deze schikking heeft de softwaremaker een grootscheeps kartelonderzoek weten te voorkomen. De schikking omvat restricties en regels voor Microsoft's manier van handelen, zoals het verplicht vrijgeven van codes van applicatie programming interfaces (API's) en communicatie protocollen aan softwareontwikkelaars. Hierdoor moet het ondermeer mogelijk worden gemaakt dat software van derden makkelijker kan samenwerken met Microsoft's besturingssystemen. Deze maatregelen zijn door de rechter voor een periode van vijf jaar aan Microsoft opgelegd. Microsoft loste een deel van deze verplichtingen eerder dit jaar al in:
Microsoft made this information available in August; in September, the company released Windows XP Service Pack 1, which introduced a control for hiding access to five pieces of middleware: the Internet Explorer browser, Windows Messenger, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine.
Microsoft made this information available in August; in September, the company released Windows XP Service Pack 1, which introduced a control for hiding access to five pieces of middleware: the Internet Explorer browser, Windows Messenger, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express and Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine.
The Internet and mobile phones have become a reliable tool for criminals, experts say, used in child pornography rings and in a hush-hush crime that is hitting the corporate world with more regularity: threatening to unleash denial of service attacks on targeted computer networks to extort money from businesses. Police can't keep up. "We are far behind," Hegel said.
As opposed to competitors Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp., who are making major online pushes with their PlayStation 2 and Xbox respectively, Nintendo has said it considers online play more of an extra feature than integral to its plans.
De maatregel vloeit voort uit de verhoogde aandacht voor privacy en veiligheid die het bedrijf al een tijdje heeft. Hoewel het misschien de hoeveelheid spam vermindert, waarschuwt analist Paul Degroot dat Outlook hierdoor niet waterdicht wordt voor andere gevaren. Ook is het valideren van adressen nog steeds mogelijk via andere methodes. Ondertussen zijn afgelopen week de eerste testers begonnen met het uitproberen van Office 11, het pakket waar Outlook 11 onderdeel van is.
"Just as true innovation flourishes when free and open competition exists, it suffers when free and open competition is squashed," said Sanders. "Too many companies now innovate to perpetuate their business model, instead of addressing the needs of consumers. Every day we see new technologies that hold almost no relevance to people's lives; new technologies that cost far too much to buy; new technologies that are too complicated to adopt successfully. Are these technologies truly innovative? No."
VIA continues to insist on the fact that they have the cross-licensing agreement with Intel after the acquisition of S3 Graphics company. VIA itself also accused Intel in patent infringements a year ago. They claim that the Intel's Pentium 4 processor illegally uses technology protected by VIA's patent number 6,253,311 actually owned by Centaur (bought by VIA Technologies in 1999). The patents deals with the different formats in which numeric data may be stored in a microprocessor, namely, it covers an "Instruction set for bi-directional conversion and transfer of integer and floating point data" (see this news-story).
About the Am1772™ WLAN chipset Designed to enable customers to make easy transitions to future 802.11 medium access controller (MAC) enhancements, the Am1772 wireless chipset is a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) solution that utilizes baseband processor and a MAC, with a descriptor-based direct memory access (DMA) host interface. The CMOS design helps reduce power consumption for the mini-PCI-based reference design to 134 mA while receiving and 232mA while transmitting - a significant improvement over competing designs resulting in increased battery life in mobile applications. In addition, the highly integrated solution reduces the number of additional components and enables a very compact design.
Een advertentie die al een paar dagen zichtbaar is in onder andere bushokjes geeft precies de intentie van QuoteNet weer. Een chauffeuse maakt hierop kenbaar dat zij niet rijdt voor abonnees van Chello. Duidelijk is dat het om exclusiviteit gaat, wat meteen ook al goed de doelgroep omschrijft. Met name mensen voor wie de trefwoorden geld, succes en carrière belangrijk zijn, zullen veel plezier aan de diensten beleven, aldus QuoteNet.

OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time website analysis software, today reported that Monday is the most popular day of the week in the world to surf the web. The study shows that surfers on the web spent more time on the internet during the workweek than at home on the weekends. Internet use worldwide on any weekday is higher than Saturday and Sunday which are the least popular days of the week to surf the internet. "Our real-time web site analysis software is the ultimate solution for webmasters to measure the most popular day that people visit a web site", said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.
EBay is in the process of integrating the PayPal service into its Web site to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to buy and sell goods. The company said Wednesday that it will also pursue other opportunities for PayPal outside of its own Web site. Executives said one of the biggest sources of growth will come from overseas consumers, who are adopting the online auction model at a rate that has even surprised Whitman herself. "I really didn't know how universally relevant this model was," Whitman recalled during an interview after the meeting. "I didn't know if it would take off in places like Brazil and Argentina and Germany." Whitman said she is now confident eBay's overseas business will surpass the size of its U.S. operation sometime after 2005. Currently, international sales make up 26 percent of the company's total revenue, but they are growing fast.

Last month we reported the theory that the appearance of BugBear, which among its nasty tricks plants a Trojan and a key logger on the victim's PCs, might be a blessing in disguise. A theory popular at the recent Virus Bulletin conference in New Orleans was that, after a quiet year on the virus front, a major virus scare might be the only thing that'd encourage home users in particular to update their AV protection. This, it was argued, might curtail the spread of Klez-H, incidents of which have been growing steadily for months (raising the prevalence of viruses overall or the noise floor) but never at such an alarming rate that it would force Harry Homeowner into action. (Er, this sounds dangerously close to a conspiracy - Ed)
Sony zal in het tweede kwartaal van 2003 zijn online gaming netwerk in Europa gaan lanceren, zo 
Honderdduizenden Nederlandse consumenten hebben aangegeven bij de DSMA niet gediend te zijn van ongewenste reclame via telefoon, brievenbus of internet. DSMA bood deze gebruikers een 'filter' tegen deze typen reclame. Het aantal leden is echter enorm gedaald, waardoor de organisatie al sinds 3 oktober dit jaar in surséance van betaling verkeerde. Nu is de marketingbranchevereniging officieel