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John Leyden / The Register:
First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted — Virus writers have begun taking advantage of Sony-BMG's use of rootkit technology in DRM software bundled with its music CDs. — Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant …
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Paul F. Roberts / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft 'Concerned' by Sony DRM — Microsoft Corp. is concerned about rootkit features in CDs from Sony BMG artists and is evaluating the situation to see if any action needs to be taken, a spokesperson said. — The Redmond, Wash., software maker said that the security of its customers' information is a …
news.bitdefender.com:
First Trojan Using Sony DRM Detected — DRM Abuse — A new trojan which uses the cover provided by the Sony DRM component to hide has been detected by BitDefender Labs at 12.15 PM GMT today and is in the wild. This is the first ever observed instance of malware using the Sony DRM rootkit detected and analysed by Mark Russinovich.
Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Sony: You Don'T Reeeeaaaally Want To Uninstall, Do You? — A few days after I posted my first blog entry on Sony's rootkit, Sony and Rootkits: Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far, Sony announced to the press that it was making available a decloaking patch and uninstall capability through its support site.
Kathleen Craig / Wired News:
Riya Eases Pain of Pile of Pix — The field of online photo-sharing sites is becoming pretty crowded, but a new service hopes to distinguish itself by automating the tedious job of tagging pictures by using artificial intelligence and face-recognition technology.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Paying attention to the post-memo blogs — In the aftermath of the Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates memos and emails I am seeing a few trends in the reaction. Five blogs in particular got my attention: — 1) Steve Gillmor's Don't Mention It — 2) Joshua Porter's Why Should I Trust Microsoft with My Attention Metadata?
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Google is Building Yahoo 2.0 — In his posting titled Reading the Google Tea Leaves, Tristan compares various product offerings from Google against those of the "big three" (AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) and concludes: … I've been giving a much shorter verbal version of his post for many months now.
Business Week:
Netflix: Starring in Merger Story? — After facing down Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, the online DVD-rental company may be an acquisition target — but it won't go for cheap — It's the oldest plot in the movies: Upstart takes on the champ, wins a few rounds, gets his nose bloodied, then gets back up and wins the fight.
Alfred Hermida / BBC:
Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds — A man widely considered to be one of the most imaginative and creative figures in the world of video games has bad news for his fans. — He cannot see a long-term future in making games. Instead the creator of the bizarre, surreal Katamari Damacy game wants to design playgrounds.
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Reuters:
IBM, Sony, Philips form Linux alliance — New organization could help ease the adoption of Linux, challenging Microsoft's software dominance. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three of the world's biggest electronics companies — IBM, Sony and Philips — have joined forces …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Friendster overture not endearing to all — Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. — The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail addresses of people who didn't initially respond …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
OpenDocument format gathers steam — Big guns in the software industry are massing behind OpenDocument as government customers show more interest in alternatives to Microsoft's desktop software. — IBM and Sun Microsystems convened a meeting in Armonk, N.Y., on Friday to discuss …
computerworld.com.au:
Experts at odds over relevance of IPv6 — A significant stumbling block to IPv6 adoption may be the IPv4 loyalists who are keen to keep the protocol in preference to the 'new improved' version. — Geoff Huston, senior Internet research scientist from Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (Apnic), belongs to the IPv4 camp.
Bill Burnham / Burnham's Beat:
$500M Folly: Wireless E-Mail Software Investing Peaks Just as Microsoft Brings Out The Big Guns — Over a year ago I wrote a post about the staggering amount of money that had been invested in the wireless e-mail middleware space. At the time, about $250M had been invested in just the top three companies …
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