* Feds declare war on spyware scams * Microsoft: No extra licenses needed for multicore chips * VoIP is the killer consumer broadband app, Cisco CTO says * FCC chair advocates hands-off approach to VoIP * Today on Layer 8
The federal government is clearly getting serious about stopping spyware, and it’s about time. As one observer says, spyware has reached “epidemic proportions” – and that’s why the U.S. House and Senate are getting involved, why the Federal Trade Commission has targeted two businesses that allegedly use spyware, and why California is moving ahead of the feds. Feds declare war on spyware scams http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101804spyware.html?net
The federal government is clearly getting serious about stopping spyware, and it’s about time. As one observer says, spyware has reached “epidemic proportions” – and that’s why the U.S. House and Senate are getting involved, why the Federal Trade Commission has targeted two businesses that allegedly use spyware, and why California is moving ahead of the feds.
Feds declare war on spyware scams
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101804spyware.html?net
Microsoft: No extra licenses needed for multicore chips
With Intel and AMD moving ahead with their development of dual-core processors, the question has been raised as to whether users would have to have a software license for each core. Microsoft has now answered that question – and it’s a different answer than Oracle’s.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1019micronoex.html?net
VoIP is the killer consumer broadband app, Cisco CTO says
The future of converged services and the design of the Internet itself will be driven more by consumer demands than by the plans of carriers, technologists and equipment vendors, Cisco CTO Charlie Giancarlo says.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1019voncon.html?net
FCC chair advocates hands-off approach to VoIP
FCC Chairman Michael Powell says that after the presidential election he will try to wrest regulatory control of VoIP from the states because to thrive as a business, the technology needs a single, easy-handed regulator.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1019fccvon.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where it’s all about the bling:
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