News

• Four keys to successful BYOD

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• 6 ways to make Ultraviolet DRM suck less

  Face it, consumer loath digital rights management restrictions on content. Here are six ways the latest Hollywood DRM scheme, Ultraviolet, can suck less.

• May 4 named as 'Day against DRM'

  Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.

• Report: Apple's iPad e-book store to use DRM

  The iBook store, the marketplace for electronic books on Apple's forthcoming iPad, will sell e-books wrapped in digital rights management software, according to sources quoted in the L.A. Times. Apple phased out DRM songs from the iTunes store a year ago, but a majority of publishers are expected to use FairPlay copy protection software for their e-books.

• Movies coming soon to a mobile phone near you

  Offering movies is the latest thing some vendors are trying to lure users as the battle for mobile phone buyers becomes more challenging.

• Interest high in new Kindle, but business model questionable

  Amazon's newest Kindle raises more questions than answers about how the e-book market might evolve.

• 1

  'Gears of War' bug not SafeDisc DRM's first

  The anti-piracy technology that locked out players of the popular Gears of War game on Thursday was also implicated in a 2007 bug that was allowing hackers to take control of Windows PCs.

• Apple response on Norwegian iTunes case fails to impress

  Apple has responded to the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman's plan to bring an iTunes case before the country's Market Council, but Apple's answer hasn't impressed the official. He now expects the case to go before the council in March or April next year.