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News Corp. Subpoenas YouTube Over Pirated Shows

Fox television Attempts to identify user who posted recent episodes of “24” and “The Simpsons.”

Details Here: www.pcworld.com/article/128662-1/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

first published week of:   02/05/2007

Online scam turns honest citizens into fences for stolen goods

By the time Scott Wilson realized how badly he'd been suckered, there was already a warrant out for his arrest and boxes of stolen Bibles piling up in his guest bedroom. Wilson had fallen victim to a reshipping scam, an Internet confidence crime authorities say costs retailers more than a half-billion dollars annually. Hired to send and receive packages, the 38-year-old Las Vegas father had unwittingly become a fence for stolen merchandise; his townhouse a depot of purloined goods.

It would take Wilson weeks to realize he'd been made a fool.

The job seemed legitimate, and so easy. Wilson would receive numerous small parcels in the mail. He would inventory the parcels and gather them into bigger boxes, cardboard behemoths he scoured from behind fast-food restaurants. Wilson would then ship the big boxes to someone else, whomever his bosses instructed. Now he's a crime victim who's afraid of calling the cops because he's also a criminal dodging police.

Details Here: www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/business/2006/dec/24/566660076.html

first published week of:   01/05/2007

OpenOffice, Office 2007 Get New Tools

Rivals Microsoft and OpenOffice.org both released toolkits today that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites. OpenOffice.org's toolkit allows developers to add the ability to save documents in Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) to a variety of applications.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's kits help companies build applications for its Office 2007 productivity suite, which is based on Open XML, ODF's rival file format. Office 2007 is available to business customers and will be in wide consumer release on January 30, 2007.

The OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project has published an initial version of its toolkit online and is inviting members of the community to add to its development, says Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for OpenOffice.org. Why It's Needed:

• Previously, developers would have had to add “a good piece of OpenOffice.org” code to an application to give it the ability to save documents in ODF, Suarez-Potts says. The creation of the ODF Toolkit makes this easier, he says.
• For example, “if someone has a mail application, they can take the tools we're making available and make it so mail messages can be saved as ODF,” Suarez-Potts says.
• However, e-mail is just one of many applications for which the toolkit can create the option to save files as ODF, he says. Because ODF is “a flexible file format,” any application for which someone creates content can include the option to save files in this way, Suarez-Potts says.

More information about the toolkit can be found on the ODF Toolkit site at OpenOffice.org and on this Sun Microsystems blog.

Details Here: first published week of:   02/05/2007

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