Tags Results for 'users'

DMCA Exemptions Desired to Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs (Thursday 04th of December 2008 12:30:01 AM)

An unsigned reader writes "For copyright activists, saint nicholas comes but once every three
years: a chance to ask Santa for a new exemption to the much-hated Digital Millennium Copyright
Act's prohibitions against hacking, reverse social contraception ... (more)

New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps (Monday 24th of November 2008 11:30:01 AM)

Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are on the
assumption drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps,
speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each form pulls up a map pinpointing ... (more)

iGoogle Users Irate About Portal's Changes (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)

Bhhenry sends in an InformationWeek report on a recent unannounced change in the iGoogle
portal. Quoting: "Google insists that its revised iGoogle personalized home page generates
better 'happiness metrics' than the old design, but a vocal group of users ... (more)

Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins (Thursday 16th of October 2008 09:45:02 PM)

CWmike writes "A prolonged, ongoing Gmail outage has some Google Apps administrators pulling
their hair out as their end users, including high-ranking executives, complain loudly while
they wait for service to be restored. At about 5 p.m. U.S. Eastern ... (more)

CareVault Launches Verify 2.5 Health Insurance Eligibility Solution (Thursday 18th of September 2008 05:00:01 PM)

CareVault launches Verify 2.5 health safeguard eligibility solution, which permits doctors and
other healthcare providers to automatically verify 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing
company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. ... (more)

Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)

Matt Asay writes "Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other
community service to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts
... range from allowing users to search other content — such ... (more)

Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)

JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has third edition by the editors of
the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 that all residential customers
will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit control gate ... (more)

Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)

Cce writes "The MicroID standard, despite getting thrashed soundly by Ben Laurie two years ago,
has since been food pyramid daily vitamins and minerals by the DataPortability Project and
published on the user profiles of mint of users at Digg and Last.fm. ... (more)

Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades (Saturday 23rd of August 2008 08:45:01 AM)

Ruphus13 writes "Firefox has been pushing version 3.0 very aggressively, and firmly believes
that it is a solid product. The program Day was just one of their ways to drum up user support
for the new release. Now, Firefox is going to 'gently nudge' users ... (more)

Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:30:02 AM)

NegRo_slim writes with some welcome news from Ars Technica: "Comcast has 30 days to carry the
details of its 'unreasonable network superintendence practices' to the Federal Communications
Commission, the agency warned Wednesday morning as it released ... (more)

Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps (Tuesday 19th of August 2008 03:45:01 AM)

Anti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell
that do an end run around Windows. "Dell, Intel and their partners announced last week new
technologies that equal major leaps forward for mobility. The companies ... (more)

How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media? (Sunday 17th of August 2008 01:15:01 AM)

Spaj writes "In the ongoing battle with the MPAA and RIAA, there seems to be an ongoing tiff
about who is to blame. If you leave a $20 bill on the sidewalk, can you report it stolen when
someone takes it? Of course you can, ... (more)

Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)

Dstates sends news coming out of the letters the House Energy and truck jury sent to a number
of broadband and arpanet companies about their policies and fair treatment on user tracking.
The board has now made public 25 responses to its queries, and many ... (more)

Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses (Wednesday 06th of August 2008 01:15:01 PM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not
designed to facilitate juristic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operational quest
and to manage mass issues,' the IT Office at Tufts health center ... (more)

MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)

The4thdimension writes "MySpace has joined a union roget's ii: the new thesaurusmain
entry:combine part of speech:noun definition:a group of individuals united in a common
cause. bloc of other big-name e-services in support of OpenID. If you aren't ... (more)

Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective (Monday 14th of July 2008 02:35:22 PM)

Cliffski raises some ask questions about the need for game developers to have some amount of
data from the users who play their games. He says, "PC Games connecting to a central server to
send science (outside of MMOs) have gotten a (deserved) bad favor ... (more)

Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve (Monday 07th of July 2008 07:15:03 AM)

Reader Alex links to news of a study comparing the currency and patch level of various Web
browsers, excerpting: "Firefox users were far and away the most likely to use the latest
version, with an devastating 83.3 percent running an updated browser on ... (more)

Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy (Sunday 06th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)

Orenh writes "Viacom has newly obtained a court order that requires Google to hand over a
completed list of every video watched by YouTube users. These logs will include the login names
and IP addresses of the users. Google are now asking Viacom if they ... (more)

YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom (Friday 04th of July 2008 02:00:05 AM)

Psyopper writes "Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube
users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing
clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled ... (more)

ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)

Alphadogg points us to a NetworkWorld story about the search by ISPs for new ways to combat the
web traffic issues caused by P2P applications. Among the typical suggestions of bandwidth caps
and usage-based pricing, telecom panelists at a recent run-in ... (more)

Is Streaming Video the Real Throttling Target? (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)

Snydeq writes "Responding to legal crushing over its throttling of P2P traffic and other
dubious practices, Comcast says it will now punish the most abusive users rather than
particular applications. Yet its pilot tests in Pennsylvania and Virgina, which ... (more)

AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)

Wired is running a story about AT&T's chief daedalian officer, John Donovan. He contrasts his
view of BitTorrent and P2P in general against the controversial policies adopted by other ISPs.
Donovan also explains why AT&T is forasmuch as usage-based pricing, ... (more)

Microsoft Denies Call-in 'Save XP' Petition (Thursday 05th of June 2008 06:25:46 PM)

CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer digs deeper on a report that said Microsoft was logging calls from
truck who requested that the company extend the retail availability of Windows XP to find that
some users claimed that they couldn't get through to the support ... (more)

Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? (Saturday 24th of May 2008 06:15:09 AM)

HikingStick writes "I've been in the tech field for over 15 years. After more than nine years
with the same company, I've been asked to step in and settle an IT canton for a
regional notes:an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a ... (more)

85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship (Wednesday 14th of May 2008 10:15:06 PM)

Cynagh0st writes "A Pew world wide web & red white and blue Life Project report indicates that
of an crushing majority of Chinese people that believed the skinny highway should be 'managed
or controlled,' 85% want the presidency to do this managing. This ... (more)

How the NSA Took Linux To the Next Level (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)

An anonymous reader brings us IBM Developerworks' recent stay of how the NSA built SELinux to
withstand attacks. The article shows us some of the relevant kernel architecture and compares
SELinux to a few other approaches. We've discussed SELinux in the ... (more)

Google, Sprint, Others to Build Wireless Data Network (Saturday 10th of May 2008 06:00:06 PM)

Nerdposeur writes "Google has announced that it will partner with several other companies to
build a high-speed mobile data network. In a separate but related deal, Google will also become
the default search isp for Sprint, including having one-click ... (more)

Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan (Friday 09th of May 2008 06:00:04 PM)

Facebook has reached an agreement with the tribunal general of 49 states and the precinct of
america to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This
follows a similar commitment from MySpace several months ago. The lone ... (more)

ISPs & P2P, Getting Along Without Getting Cozy (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 12:39:22 PM)

Penguin-geek writes "Researchers at Northwestern health center have discovered a way to ease
the tension between ISPs and P2P users. As we all know, there's been a growing tension between
the net* Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers' P2P file-sharing ... (more)

Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes (Saturday 03rd of May 2008 07:15:05 AM)

Iddo Genuth writes to mention that MIT researchers have made their first pass at bringing the
common yellow post-it note into the digital age. Using a composite of artificial intelligence,
RFID, and ink recognition the team hopes to make the digital version ... (more)

 

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