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...move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
...customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will be announced this week, transforms data so that a mobile-phone user can download pages using the same format as the World Wide Web. Opera has found a way to render Web pages so that a complete page can be viewed vertically on mobile screens and look the same as it does on a PC. "With our technology, mobile users can visit any page...
Luckily, it's easy to check your computer for spyware. If you own a Windows machine, just go to lavasoftusa.com and download a free utility called Ad-Aware. Install it, hit the scan button and be prepared for a shock. Mac owners can try Spring Cleaning, which is $50 from Aladdin Systems...
...does this stuff get onto your machine? Most often, it hides behind other software as you download it. If you're a heavy user of post-Napster file-sharing programs like Morpheus or Kazaa, both known distributors of spyware, you're probably already infected. Sometimes spyware masquerades as cookies, those little files websites leave on your computer so you don't have to type your name and password every time you visit. Once on your PC, spyware can sequester itself deep inside your operating system in what are called registry files. Anti-virus software won't spot it, because...
South Korean operators have also chosen to differentiate download prices, charging one rate for text and another for multimedia content. On 2.5G networks, all the mobile operators take half a cent per packet (which represents 512 bytes) for text but only about one-quarter of a cent per packet for multimedia content. The reason? To make it more attractive for consumers to use the new traffic-intensive multimedia services such as video on demand. Otherwise, they might stick to less traffic-intensive text-based services like e-mail...