Sony-BMG has been using copy-protection technology called XCP in its recent CDs. You insert your CD into your Windows PC, click "agree" in the pop up window, and the CD automatically installs software that uses rootkit techniques to cloak itself

Shaw cable has, this year, begun to roll out traffic-shaping technology on their network using technology from Ellacoya.

Cisco Systems Wednesday reported a small dip in first-quarter earnings as a result of costs relating to the expensing of stock options. Cisco President and CEO John Chambers called it a "solid" quarter, pointing to strong growth in the United

Whether you call them mash-ups or hacks, third-party edits to the mapping systems offered by Google and Yahoo! are springing up all over the place these days. From tools that help you find the nearest delivery joint to programs that...

One more magistrate judge has refused to allow the government's practice of secretly using cell phones to track people without probable cause --this time in the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The magistrate judge declined to grant the government's

EFF and 12 other national non-profit organizations have won their battle against a government fundraising policy that required checking employees against terrorist government watch-lists. It's a big victory for free speech and privacy -- not to mention the non-profits and

China Mobile ( CHL ) is testing event ticket booking via mobile phones in Shanghai through its affiliate Shanghai Mobile.

Shanda's ( SNDA ) newly reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005 show that though total net revenues increased 41.4% year-over-year, frevenue decreased 7.4% quarter-over-quarter to RMB499.7 million.

Enjoy Media has signed an agreement to acquire 51% of Guangzhou LangHui Information Technology Limited.

China Telecom has announced that 19 nationwide Little Smart (PHS) service providers, including Sohu.com ( SOHU ), have been fined and penalized for registering users for unwanted SMS services.

Local media report that a Chinese consumer surnamed Xing has filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Information Industry, State Administration of Industry and Commerce and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine in the hope that the three

Putian Group's three mobile phone manufacturing affiliates Bird, Eastcom and Capitel might be close to a merger, local media report.

The coming year will be pivotal in terms of deployment of new and improved wireless broadband technologies but 3G cellular data service will dominate over the next few years, according to a market study by Northern Sky Research.

It appears that the Japan OSDL group is having a hard time coming to grips with exactly how the whole Open Source development process works...

WWW::NanoRef is a Perl module that uses the API published by nanoref.com to produce shortened URLs. License: Perl License Changes: Initial implementation. Supports retrieving a shortened URL and allows for setting a password for viewing stats.

XDG-Menu is a ROX panel applet that displays an application menu button. The menus it builds fit the XDG Menu Specification published by freedesktop.org. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A bug when applications grew into zombie processes after

bibEC Process Card is a class that processes credit card payments via one of the multiple supported payment gateways. Currently, these include Plug and Pay, Authorize.net, ViaKlix, Paynet, and other minor gateways. Changing between payment gateways is mostly a matter

LAS (Library Accounting System) is a media cataloguing system for books, journals, and magazines. LAS is currently geared torward the individual user. It supports loaning and viewing of records, automatic downloading of book information, and call number creation. License: GNU

File::MetaInfo indexes meta-data and user labels (or tags) extracted from files. There is also a Gtk2-Perl interface to find the files by meta-data and tags.