Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on December 22, 2005 at 2:42:51 PM
UK goes insane and montiors all cars on the road.
EU threatens MS with daily fines.
Texas fires another salvo at Sony BMG. Do not forget what Sony BMG DRM did. DRM is crap and nobody should support this.
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The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts. By next March a central database installed alongside the Police National Computer in Hendon, north London, will store the details of 35 million number-plate "reads" per day. These will include time, date and precise location, with camera sites monitored by global positioning satellites.
EU threatens MS with daily fines.
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The European Union's executive arm said it may fine Microsoft up to $2.37 million (2 million euros) a day unless it complies with an order to provide interface documentation to allow rivals' group servers to work with the company's ubiquitous Windows operating system.
Texas fires another salvo at Sony BMG. Do not forget what Sony BMG DRM did. DRM is crap and nobody should support this.
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The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday he added a new claim to a lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment accusing it of violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding "spyware" on its compact discs. The original lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Greg Abbott in November against the company for violating state anti-spyware laws by embedding software in its CDs and media player to monitor users' habits.