April 2007 Archives

Association Encourages IPR Protection To Foster Creativity, Prosperity And Knowledge-Based Economy

Dubai, UAE - April 25, 2007: Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association established by the software industry to promote a safe and legal digital world, has today (Thursday, April 26, 2007) united with international organisations to celebrate the 2007 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Day, an initiative designed to educate the public about how the protection of IPR nurtures creativity, prosperity and a knowledge-based economy.

Failing to make cyber security a priority is costly for small businesses and customers.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 -- This spring, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) challenges small businesses to make cyber security a top priority. While the public is fixated on high-profile corporate and government database breaches, hackers and identity thieves are increasingly targeting millions of small businesses. According to a 2005 FBI Cyber Crime Study, 90 percent of small businesses had at least one cyber security incident within the past year. Not taking the correct cyber security precautions and approach makes small businesses’ computer networks easy targets. Hackers can easily steal from and use these networks as launching pads to attack others, send phishing emails, and even steal from home users.

In the United States, patent laws vary from state to state or even from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Thus, California patent laws are unique to California. California patent laws are still both clearly defined and as technically difficult as other states. Patent infringement is basically defined the same everywhere.

The manufacture, use, sale, offer to sell, or import and existing or patented device, product, material, or other conceivable invention constitutes patent infringement. Patent infringement lawyers basically have three jobs.

WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The leader of one of the oldest and most renowned Internet software piracy groups has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first ever extraditions for an intellectual property offense, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg for the Eastern District of Virginia announced today.

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c54082) has announced the addition of the Frost & Sullivan report: North American IP Video Surveillance Storage Markets to their offering.

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled North American IP Video Surveillance Storage Market provides an overview of the IP video surveillance storage market, the unit shipment and revenue forecasts for network video recorder (NVR) and digital video recorder (DVR) in the North American region, and profiles of leading participants in the market. In this research service, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine both NVR and DVR in the gaming, government, enterprise, retail, financial, healthcare, and education sectors.

Overall scores increased from previous year, U.S. Bank top rated for second year in a row.

Traverse City, MI (PRWEB) April 16, 2007 -- Privacy and information management research firm the Ponemon Institute announced the results of the 2007 Privacy Trust Study for Retail Banking, measuring consumer perceptions of trustworthiness for retail banking institutes. In its sixth year, the study examines how issues related to consumer privacy and data security, and the ways in which retail banking institutions address those issues, translate to consumer opinion.

Crematory Sued in a Scheme of Allegedly Stealing Body Parts from Corpses Without Consent from Next-Of-Kin

Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd., together with a local crematory, have been sued for allegedly stealing body parts without consent of next-of-kin. Criminal investigations are underway and a Civil lawsuit has been filed by Anapol Schwartz on behalf of the bereaved family.

“Software Protection—Making Software Self-Protecting” Discusses Methods for Protecting Intellectual Property

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloakware Inc., the security solutions provider that makes security inseparable from software, today announced that Mark Hearn, senior product manager for Cloakware Security Solutions, has been selected to present at the 4th Software Security Summit. Hearn, a security industry veteran, will present an overview of the current state of practice and practical research in data and key hiding, software tamper-resistance and software self-protection.

The new threats in image spam, and how to combat them.

Invasion of the Image Spammers! Free White Paper discusses new perils in Spam emails, and how to avoid them. Think your current Spam filter is doing a good enough job? Maybe you should think again. Spam message volumes have doubled over the past 12 months and are expected to triple in the near future, and end users are seeing twice as much uncaught spam in their inboxes (Source: Borderware Security Network).

Cerulean Associates LLC, one the world’s top recognized advisory firms on regulatory compliance, intellectual property security and information technology in regulated environments, launched a revised website today.

“Consultant websites tend to talk about themselves,” said John Avellanet, Managing Director of Cerulean. “Given Cerulean’s focus on our clients’ success, now our website reflects that - whether a visitor is looking for previous client results, an article reprint, our newsletter, a public speaker or just wants a quiet review for how our various services might match their needs.”

Claymore/Ocean Tomo Growth Index ETF Introduced on the American Stock Exchange

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ocean Tomo, LLC, the Chicago-based provider of diversified intellectual property-related services, today announced the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Growth Index is now available to investors through Claymore Securities, Inc.’s new exchange-traded fund, the Claymore/Ocean Tomo Growth Index ETF. The new ETF will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) today, under the symbol OTR.

As an industry leader, Microsoft continues to innovate in the area of software protection technologies and has taken steps on behalf of its customers and partners to reaffirm its commitment to reducing software piracy.

Microsoft’s Genuine Software Initiative (GSI) accomplishes two steps: First, it coordinates activities across a number of internal business groups, and then it participates across industry associations to support a healthy software ecosystem. These efforts include support of intellectual property protection while ensuring a good customer and partner experience around the use of genuine software.