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In another example of greed and fear among huge corporations, 4 Hollywood studios and the big 3 television networks sued Cablevision over their plan to launch an on-demand service that could replace the consumer’s TiVo/DVR. So instead of recording stuff to your own home DVR, you would [...]

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Because I am known as … er, frugal, friends often ask me where to find the best buy for a particular item. They also use me as a source for troubleshooting their PCs, recommending software, etc. etc. Next month privately held Tacit Software plans to introduce a service that [...]

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Only 48 hours after eEye Digital Security reported a “gaping hole” in Symantec’s enterprise products, Symantec has patched the flaw. The flaw was described as a stack overflow affecting the Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, two enterprise level products.
“Exploiting this overflow successfully could potentially cause a system [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
In what is clearly a win for online journalists, particularly large blog sites, a California Appeals court ruled on Friday that Apple did not have the right to access the records of AppleInsider in relation to a leak that occurred on an unreleased product.
The court sided with the Electronic Frontier [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A redacted document is one that has been sanitized to remove sensitive material. In the “old days” you might photocopy a document, black out the info with ink, then re-photocopy the marked-up document (since it might be possible to read the original text via holding it up to the light [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Although the codebase used to compile the different versions of IE7 are the same, the version of the browser provided in Vista will have a slightly different name, meaning “Internet Explorer 7+”. Aside from Vista-only features, provided by the OS, such as Protected Mode, Parental Controls, and improved Network [...]

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The European Union is investigating possible taxes on emails and SMS messages as a new source of funds for the 25 member bloc. A European Parliament working group, headed by Alain Lamassoure, a prominent French MEP, is doing the investigation. Initial proposals are to add a tax of [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Yes, pun intended. Cloaking devices, like the ones in Star Trek or the cloak Harry Potter inherited from his father? Science fiction for most, but groups in the U.S. and England feel its possible.
Both John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College London and Nader Engheta, a professor [...]