Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
As the IM wars escalate again, consumers are claiming they're the casualties.
Priya Giri knew that privacy was never a guarantee when emailing people from work--but she never knew that some instant messaging services also have ways to record seemingly casual conversations.
Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.
Known for hawking pop-up ads that let companies advertise on rival sites, Gator is working a new variation on the theme--selling ads designed to block banners on sites such as Yahoo with pop-ups of the exact same dimensions, completely obscuring the original ad.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
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IT managers who want to block staff use of instant messaging or peer-to-peer networks have a new ally in SurfControl.
In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.
Tackling everything from security issues to open source, we put the tough questions to Paul Houghton, Managing Director of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.
Microsoft is forcing people to upgrade to newer versions of its instant messenger application and is shutting its doors to third-party IM products such as Trillian.
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