Recommendations include requiring companies to provide legal information, a principal address and a phone number on their Web site and forcing businesses to let users opt-out of unsolicited email. It also warns that businesses "should not exploit...
The strategy document still doesn't address criticism that its lack of regulations render it toothless. Among specific recommendations, the plan calls for: The Bush administration signed off on Friday the final version of the US strategy for...
The chipmaker has issued a set of recommendations to manufacturers to avoid problems by removing or disabling the problem-causing feature. Last week, Intel acknowledged a software conflict that causes problems with some Centrino notebooks when...
He warned that the Federal Information Security Management Act established detailed security regulations for agencies to follow, but private companies have no such obligations. ITAA president Harris Miller said the group will "come back to [Putnam...
Companies are looking at DRM as an enforcement mechanism for corporate standards, not just for their own sake but in order to demonstrate compliance with external regulations. Within the corporate environment, DRM becomes an enabler of new mechanisms.
When we look at the difficulties in disposing of computer equipment that the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations have introduced, using one of Microsoft's partners who are part of the recycling scheme suddenly makes both...