Norton Internet Security Suite 2009 (CIOL)
BANGALORE, INDIA: The big deal about this product is that it's must faster and easier to use, something we'd forgotten existed in commercial anti-virus software and Internet security suites. What does the magic in this version is a feature called 'Norton Insight'.
Symantec and the Family Online Safety Institute Join Forces to Make the Online World Safer for Kids and Their Families (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Symantec Corp., makers of Norton security software, announced today that they are joining the Family Online Safety Institute and will have Marian Merritt, Symantec's Internet Safety Advocate, serve on the FOSI Board of Directors. FOSI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to identifying and promoting best practices, tools and methods for online safety. As an active corporate ...
Slate: Trust Among Film Thieves (Washington Post)
Slate associate editor Josh Levin discusses illegal movie downloads and aXXo, the Internet's best brand name in ripping and uploading DVDs.
YouTube's Identity Crisis, Circuit City's Cash Crisis: A Week to Forget (E-Commerce Times)
Now you can get your fix of "Bulletproof Monk" and "American Gladiators" -- all without leaving the comfort of YouTube. Yes, the king of user-generated, short-form video is now embracing the other kind: studio-generated, feature-length films. Yes, this is the same YouTube that said long-form video was anathema to its business model. But I guess when the big MGM lion comes roaring, you make an ...
Local firm releases first computer security product (The Capital Times)
Madison-based NovaShield Inc., a computer security firm founded on research done at UW-Madison, announced the commercial release of its first product on Monday. NovaShield Anti-Malware version 2.5 has been offered as a free public beta and trial product for the past six months. The company calls it a "radically new approach designed to detect, block, and remove sophisticated and rapidly morphing ...