Surfing on the sly with IE8's new "InPrivate" Internet (Ars Technica)Internet Explorer 8 will include new privacy features to help safeguard personal information. Designed to stop both fellow computer users and websites alike from snooping on your browsing behavior, the new features are a boon for the privacy-conscious. Advertisers might not be so pleased, however. Read More...
Microsoft invests in video-streaming firm Move (PC Advisor)Deal could help Silverlight compete with Flash The companies already have a relationship, struck in March, that makes their internet technologies compatible. Move Networks' customers in the US like ABC and the CW Television Network that use Move's technology to stream video online can also use Microsoft's Silverlight to include interactive elements such as branding and navigation in the ...
Copyright Law and the Web, Part 2: Who Are the IP Police? (E-Commerce Times)The Internet has made it much simpler for companies to reach potential customers. However, this wide open channel has come at a cost. Companies now expose more of their assets to outsiders who can misuse them. While the law helps -- at least to a degree -- companies increasingly find they need to take steps to monitor and protect their digital assets.
EVDO and VoIP for remote audio transmission (NewsForge)A cellular plan using an EVDO modem can provide a connection with bandwidth of approximately 3Mbps to the client and 1.5Mbps up to the provider (comparable to DSL) for a much lower cost than alternatives such as satellite. For applications requiring high-quality audio transmission from remote locations, such as the radio remotes we do at the radio station where I work, a Linux laptop with an ...
The Bid for International Cyber Property Rights (E-Commerce Times)Who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix, .dubai, under ICANN's latest policy? Such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it, like go.dubai, hotel.dubai, job.dubai, cars.dubai or fly.dubai. Who would be the next global cyber-branding leader of this new millennium?
