27th January 2008 Archive

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• Bank turns London man into RFID-enabled guinea pig

  Halifax customer bites back

  The Halifax bank is enrolling unsuspecting customers in trials of a new generation of RFID-enabled bank cards, and trying to keep them in the program even if they have mis-givings about the wave and pay technology. PayWave allows punters to debit their account without having to enter a PIN or sign for goods valued at less than …

  ID 27 Jan 2008, 07:02

• Bush orders NSA to snoop on US agencies

  Cyber attack fear used to expand spy grid

  Not content with spying on other countries, the NSA (National Security Agency) will now turn on the US's own government agencies thanks to a fresh directive from president George Bush. Under the new guidelines, the NSA and other intelligence agencies can bore into the internet networks of all their peers. The Bush …

  Crime 27 Jan 2008, 21:25

• Qtrax puts legal face on P2P

  Midem But forgets to sign for the recordings...

  UpdatedSo when the going gets weird, the weird get ad-funded. Even in the short, strange history of digital music, they don't come weirder than Qtrax, a music service that launched here at Midem in Cannes today. It's a marriage of two desperate industries – the music business, and the ad-supported web startup. To steal a phrase …

  Music and Media 27 Jan 2008, 23:48

• Music biz targets ISPs - official

  Midem 'Clean up your networks'

  You don't need to be a Kremlinologist to detect the latest shift from the sound recordings industry. In its digital music report this week, the IFPI, the international trade group for recordings owners, provides scarcely a mention of the roaring "success" of its litigation against file-sharers. Instead the focus is squarely on …

  Music and Media 27 Jan 2008, 23:51