Kuriko Miyake

Sony Corp. has unveiled digital rights management technology that can protect content for use on various types of devices and allows usage conditions for content to be controlled by the distributor.

Several major memory card makers, as part of a five member consortium called 5C, have developed a new Mobile Commerce Extension standard for flash memory cards, they announced Thursday.

Several major memory card makers, as part of a five member consortium called 5C, have developed a new Mobile Commerce (MC) Extension standard for flash memory cards, they announced Thursday.

Hackers will be unable to attack Web sites protected by a new security system unless they can change the laws of physics, according to Naoto Takano, chief executive officer of Scarabs Corp., a Japanese venture in Chiba Prefecture.

The theme of this year

Mobility was added to IPv6 trials and demonstrations at this year

Several new technologies that may replace Fibre Channel as the main way of providing connectivity to storage area network (SANs) will begin to make their mark in 2003, according to Brad Stamas, chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association.

Two opt-out antispam laws took effect in Japan on Monday, making it illegal for companies to send mail to recipients who have asked them not to.