Found at 8/27/2008 via www.arnnet.com.au Sign up for our ARN newsletters! The premier provider of daily news to the IT channel, covering business, technology, products, and services. Sony Ericsson has relaunched its mobile content store PlayNow, renaming it PlayNow Arena and promoting music without the DRM technology some stores use to prevent copying or sharing of songs. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/27/2008 via www.macnn.com A Tuesday report has the majority of the big movie studios and distributors supporting a plan put forth by Sony Pictures that would decrease the restrictions Digital Rights Management (DRM) imposes on users' ability to enjoy their purchased videos and movies. Last year, Sony Pictures proposed a set of policies and software and service framework it called Open Market that would allow larger ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/27/2008 via news.cnet.com Sony Pictures is pushing a plan that would create a system that would allow movies to play on multiple DRM schemes. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/27/2008 via www.tgdaily.com Last time we checked, the Super Audio CD (SACD) was one of Sony?s big failures in recent history. The idea of a DRM-laden specialty audio listening experience did not stick too well with high-end consumers. It never really seemed to gain much threshold and one could assume it died off like other failed Sony formats. Not so, it seems ? at least if we believe that Sony is serious about launching a ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/25/2008 via blogs.zdnet.com Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/25/2008 via news.thomasnet.com Using DRM PDF controls and U.S. Government strength, AES 256-bit encryption, Lizard Safeguard PDF Security protects PDF documents from copying, modifying, screen grabbing, saving, and distribution. Document owners can control whether users can print protected PDF files as well as how many times they can do so if allowed. Also, integral controls check how PDF documents are used, by whom, for how ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/23/2008 via www.centredaily.com The AXMEDIS is the ultimate innovation in the content management and DRM areas. AXMEDIS allows to reduce costs and increase efficiency of content management, automating processes with GRID technologies, visual programming, scripting for multiple metadata and digital formats, and access to any CMSs and databases, content processing, adaptation, fingerprinting, MPEG-21 DRM, OMA, transcoding, ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/23/2008 via biz.yahoo.com FLORENCE, Italy----The AXMEDIS is the ultimate innovation in the content management and DRM areas. AXMEDIS allows to reduce costs and increase efficiency of content management, automating processes with GRID technologies, visual programming, scripting for multiple metadata and digital formats, and access to any CMSs and databases, content processing, adaptation, fingerprinting, MPEG-21 DRM, ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/22/2008 via www.engadget.com Filed under: Cellphones , Gaming , Handhelds What was just a footnote to 2007 has finally come to fruition. Sony Ericsson just went live with details for the August 25th, Nordic launch of its PlayNow Arena media download site. Initially the site will offer 1 million, DRM-free songs (ramping up to 5 million) from Sony BMG, Warner Music, and EMI. It will also offer games, ringtones, ... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/21/2008 via lifehacker.com We've shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBand and iTunes on a Mac, or software like ToneShop for Windows but the CyberNet... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/21/2008 via lifehacker.com We've shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBand and iTunes on a Mac, or software like ToneShop for Windows, but the CyberNet... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/20/2008 via www.pcworld.com TransGaming on Wednesday announced that it will use Sony's SecuROM Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology for its future... More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
Found at 8/20/2008 via biz.yahoo.com Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security leader specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, in response to press reports, confirmed receipt of a confidential, unsolicited proposal from Vector Capital, a private equity firm, to acquire the Company. More... 0 comments | blog this | email this
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