News: Standards & Legal

• Net Views: Chinese Internet censorship hurts U.S. companies
  Net Views, The Industry Standard
  Jan 08 2009
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  "Censorship gives an unfair market advantage to Chinese internet providers like Baidu, which doesn't need to present a superior product to lead the market - it needs simply to offer operational ...

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• Apple kills DRM dead -- finally
  Robert X. Cringely
  Jan 08 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  Probably the biggest news to come out of the Macworld Expo is that Apple has finally put a stake into the heart of the DRM vampire, turning it to dust. Poof! Loooong overdue, as noted by practically ...

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• DRM-free news is music to consumers' ears
  Dan Moren
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  Maybe Phil Schiller didn't introduce a new Mac mini, or the mythical iPhone nano, but for my money the most important announcement of the keynote came shoved in the last ten minutes or so of ...

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• US investment in IT would create jobs, group says
  Grant Gross
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  A US$30 billion investment by the U.S. government in broadband, health IT and smart energy grids would create or retain nearly a million jobs, according to a new report from a Washington, D.C., ...

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• iTunes Store and DRM-free music: What you need to know
  Macworld Staff
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  On Tuesday, Apple announced that after six years, the iTunes Store would soon completely stop selling music encumbered by digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. What does that mean for you? ...

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• ICANN hopes to improve compliance enforcement in 2009
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, The Industry Standard
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  ICANN just published its annual report for 2008. Much of it is devoted to the comings and goings of board members and administrative updates, but buried in the report is an update on how the ...

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• SAP wants Oracle to reveal software, support profit margins
  Chris Kanaracus
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  SAP wants Oracle to reveal profit-margin information for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software and support, according to a joint discovery statement filed this week in connection with Oracle's lawsuit ...

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• EU investigates possible smart card chip cartel
  Peter Sayer
  Jan 07 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  The European Commission is investigating a possible cartel among manufacturers of the smart card chips used in payment cards and mobile phones, it said Wednesday. Commission officials raided the ...

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• US digital TV converter program out of money
  Grant Gross
  Jan 06 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  A U.S. government program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money. The U.S. National Telecommunications and ...

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• Apple says goodbye to Macworld, without Jobs
  Robert McMillan
  Jan 06 2009
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  • Standards & Legal

  There was a standing ovation at the Macworld Conference and Expo this year, but it wasn't for Steve Jobs or a hot new Apple product. It was for singer Tony Bennett, who closed an otherwise ...

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