The idea behind the proposal was to prevent people duplicating and reusing information without first getting the approval of the copyright owner. If the proposals do get passed into law, and the law is enforced, then those annoying 'Net congestion...
Transport Direct will provide travel information linking trains, buses and taxi connections to improve public transport as an integrated system. In a Stockport GP practice, the electronic transfer of pathology messages has reduced the average time...
Customers complained that the move could jeopardise recovery following damage to the hard drive and would also prevent deliberate partitioning of the drive to add a second OS like Linux. Customers posted irate messages on HP's technical support...
It is "an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam," said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager. For mail providers and their customers, enacting rate limits also helps to inadvertently prevent computers that may be infected with...
In addition, the update tweaks the Internet Explorer web browser to block pop-up ads on websites and to prevent inadvertent downloads of software. Spammers have latched onto Windows Messenger - which is supposed to be primarily used by systems...
There are certainly ways to prevent this. There are technological solutions to the problem, but ISPs need to take responsibility and use solutions to prevent the problem from becoming overwhelming," Bourdeau added.