20th July 2002 Archive

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• JPEG guardians vow to defend free images

  All your compression tech belongs to … er, somebody in Texas

  Yesterday, we broke the story that an obscure Texan video conferencing company is seeking royalties from a patent it acquired five years ago. With the help of a gold-bricking law firm, it wants to collect back royalties from every client device manufacturer which might possibly ever be in receipt of a transmitted JPEG image, and …

  Music and Media 20 Jul 2002, 01:15

• Apple must raise prices – Now!

  Letters Jobs, you're too cheap

  This week Steve Jobs' altruism won out over his business sense, as Apple's decided to charge $100 a year for iTools (dot.Mac) and $129 for the upgrade to OS X 10.2. As many readers have pointed out, these represent stunning value compared to other domestic services, such as cable TV, let alone rival software and service bundles …

  Mac Channel 20 Jul 2002, 03:28

• Face recognition fails in Boston airport

  The patriotic scam goes on

  Test runs of the Visionics (now Identix) magical face-recognition terrorist finder at Boston's Logan Airport have failed miserably, as expected. According to a story by the Boston Globe, the security firm which conducted the tests was unable to calibrate the equipment without running into one of two rather serious problems. …

  Security 20 Jul 2002, 21:09