Alles over Lawsuit Calls Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Tool Spyware | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | OSNews | 2006-06-30 23:31:16
A computer user is suing Microsoft over the company's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware. The suit by Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, seeks class-action status for claims that Microsoft didn't adequately disclose details of the tool when it was delivered to PC users through the company's Automatic Update system. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15059
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Genera y comparte efectos en tiempo real Avid AVX | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-06-30 21:19:03
Exprime toda la potencia del núcleo de Tiger y su nuevo sistema de tratamiento avanzado de la imagen, gracias al editor Avid Xpress Pro y la primera suite de herramientas basadas en la arquitectura AVX de Avid.Factory Tools permitirá a los usuarios de Avid Xpress Pro la creación en tiempo real de nada más ni nada menos que 85 efectos, que podrán compartir con cualquier programa que use la arquitectura AVX. El paquete incluye potentes características de composición para cada uno de los efectos disponibles.Incluye diferentes controles de geometría variable, mezclas de efectos, numerosos filtros así como sofisticadas transiciones que nos darán bastante juego a la hora de ir modificando los efectos existentes e incluso crear nuevos efectos. Este plug-in AVX desatará toda la potencia del Core Image y Quartz.Source: http://www.softonic.com/ie/43468/ http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/12552
Alles over Lawsuit calls Microsoft's anti-piracy tool spyware | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Neowin.net | 2006-06-30 05:43:31
A computer user is suing Microsoft Corp. over the company's Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool, alleging that it violates laws against spyware.
The suit by Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle, seeks class-action status for claims that Microsoft didn't adequately disclose details of the tool when it was delivered to PC users through the company's Automatic Update system.
Windows Genuine Advantage is designed to check the validity of a computer user's copy of the operating system. But the tool became a subject of heightened controversy earlier this month, after PC users began noticing that it was making daily contact with Microsoft's servers without their knowledge, even if their software was valid.
A Microsoft spokesman, Jim Desler, called the suit "baseless" and disputed the characterization of the tool as spyware. "Spyware is deceptive software that is installed on a user's computer without the user's consent and has some malicious purpose," Desler said. Windows Genuine Advantage "is installed with the consent of the user and seeks only to notify the user if a proper license is not in place."
The lead lawyer representing Johnson in the suit against Microsoft, Scott Kamber of Kamber & Associates LLC in New York, was co-lead counsel for consumers in the lawsuit over Sony Corp.'s surreptitious placement of copy-protection "rootkit" software on PCs, through music CDs. That software, designed to prevent music from being copied illegally, disabled protections against viruses and spyware, potentially leaving unaware computer users vulnerable. Sony settled the suit.
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Alles over Eight Key Tools for Oracle Applications Developers | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | OSNews | 2006-06-29 19:43:56
Attendees of the recent New England Oracle Applications User Group conference got a refresher course on some of the key tools that Oracle developers use to customize E-Business Suite applications. Sridhar Bogelli, the leader of the session and founder and chief executive officer of Apps Associates, an application development consultancy, told attendees that properly using the tools provided by Oracle and third-party vendors can help developers and their companies avoid embarrassing, production-related problems. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15042
Alles over Zoho announces an online power-point type tool | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-06-24 11:21:30
The online office suite Zoho launched a new presentation tool this week called Zoho Show, for use in creating and displaying remote presentations on the web. Zoho parent company Adventnet is a TechCrunch sponsor.Thumbstacks appears to be the primary rival faced by Zoho Show, and both have certain advantages and disadvantages. This newest offering is the 12th Zoho web based application, including a word processor, spreadsheet, chat, CRM, an app creator and more. Zoho Shows most important feature is that you can import Power Point (and open office) files. Thats its primary advantage over Thumbstacks. Unfortunately, theres a 1 MB upload limit on those files, so substantial Power Point files wont work. Zoho files can also be exported to power point files or put up on the web with single click, whereas Thumbstacks exports to HTML.Both Zoho Show and Thumbstacks offer remote controlled online display of slideshows, and both make it easy to toggle between public and private. When private is selected, both systems display an error message if you try to load the public URL.Zoho Show does not appear to support the creation and manipulation of arrows, which seems like a huge problem for presentations. Thumbstacks does. According to the Thumbstacks developers blog this was a real technical feat, browser support for arrows. Instead Zoho offers some images of arrows that you can move around and resize. I dont look forward to having to do that.Both services support easy import of your photos from Flickr, but only Zohos prompts you to login to access the photos youve marked private. I can imagine private web based presentations being put together with private web stored photos, and if thats what youre looking for you may not want to use Thumbstacks. Thumbstacks seems to have struggled on Macs since inception and has a limit of 5 viewers at once for slide shows. Overall I get more error messages and UI struggles on my Mac with Thumbstacks, but being able to add arrows to my slides is very important to me. While Zoho Show is a more polished offering from a commercial vendor, until they add support for arrows at least I can imagine myself using Thumbstacks to create most slide shows just for showing people over the phone. Id use Zoho Show if I was working on something collaboratively with people who use Power Point - and Id ask them to put the arrows in it for me.To be fair, the now 12 services strong Zoho suite is impressive. We reviewed Zoho Writer here when it came out and the company is obviously serious about improving their offerings over time. Heres hoping that Zoho Show increases its Power Point upload limit and adds support for arrows.Zoho ShowTags: TechCrunch, Web2.0, Zoho, powerpoint, Thumbstacks Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch?m=985 Marshall Kirkpatrick http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/11455
Alles over PC Tools Software | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Morpurgo.nl | 2006-06-20 16:18:21
Ik moet bekennen dat ik om te testen af en toe wat software uit een niet reguliere en donkere plek haal. De meeste software is troep en is er weer net zo snel af als het er op gegaan is. De software van PC Tools is van een geheel ander kaliber en heeft mij een zeer positief en veilig gevoel gegeven. Zowel Spyware Doctor die na een scan van Hitman Pro 2 toch nog ruim 300 infecties kan vinden en de Registry mechanic die zorgt dat deze geen vervuiling vast houd van software installaties of verkeerde registraties van spy of adware en zo. Technorati Tags: pc tools, spyware doctor, hitman pro, registry mechanic http://www.morpurgo.nl/pivot/entry.php?id=1173
Alles over KJam Build Tool 0.32 (Default branch) | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-06-20 14:41:17
KJam is a very fast build tool. It is a makereplacement, and uses a syntax similar to Jam, butis much more powerful than the original. It hasbuilt-in dependency scanning, per-targetviewpathing, C-like control flow, and a built-insh-like shell. It is optimized for multi-processormachines. It can accelerate software builds bylaunching build actions on a distributed peer topeer network of build servers. It is designed tosupport large projects with thousands of targets,or projects requiring building on many targetarchitectures.License: Free for non-commercial useChanges:This release includes a new built-in shell command, chmod. It is portable between all supported platforms. On Linux, it is a POSIX compliant chmod. There were also a number of minor improvements to the existing built-in shell commands rm and touch. Speed optimizations were also made.Source: http://rss.freshmeat.net/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-global?m=22743 http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/10626
Alles over powerful Monitoring and Access Control tool | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | MZL & Novatech Traffic & Bandwidth Statistics News | 2006-06-17 23:22:47
Know what your computer is used for in your absence. Prevent computer and Internet misuse. Protect children or young teenagers. Omniquad Desktop Surveillance is a powerful Monitoring and Access Control tool. The Personal edition is intended for home computers and laptops. This product allows you to supervise and monitor web surfing, e-mail, chat rooms, game-play and other activities taking place on your computer in your absence. If you need to supervise the use of the computer by children or some one else, use Desktop Surveillance! The unique ability to create ‘video-like' surveillance style records, similar in concept to CCTV but without need for hardware. Real time activity monitoring covering the Internet as well as every other aspect of computer usage. The application runs as an invisible agent, which unobtrusively captures keystrokes and records screen contents for replay. The program also compiles activity reports that will include all user activities: web sites, chat rooms, newsgroups, games, files and folders. You can view reports of the collected data at leisure when you are back, or data can be immediately sent to you by e-mail or FTP. Give access to the wealth of information available on your computer and the Internet, while providing a safety net. You can customise the system so that all the information is within reach, while harmful content is inaccessible. This means that other people can use your system while you stay in control. Prevent misuse by blocking illicit material or unwanted or harmful activities from your computer and avoid exposure to undesired material. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_634.html
