Yes your Honour, the modem is connected

The Lord Chancellor's department has released plans to haul the Dickensian processes of the Civil Courts into the cyber age. Modernising the Civil Courts is a consultation paper that proposes "paperless court rooms". Evidence could be submitted electronically, and even more surprisingly, writs could be settled online. ...more

Sendo settles with Microsoft

British mobile phone designer Sendo has settled its legal dispute with Microsoft. In an out-of-court deal, both companies have agreed to drop their claims and counter claims against each other. Microsoft will also sell its four percent stake in the company although no other financial terms were released. ...more

LCDs for DTP

NEC/Mitsubishi has launched an 18in TFT monitor: a full 8-bit panel with sRGB support and six-axis colour control, making even DTP possible. Okay, so you'd want something a little bigger, given the choice, but gone are the days when buying an LCD was more a cosmetic choice, than a professional one. The MultiSync LCD 1850X comes in at 445x398x218mm and 8. ...more

Adobe buys in extra DRM

Adobe has announced the acquisition of new DRM technologies to increase the document security capabilities of its LiveCycle Policy Server. The FileLine Digital Rights Management division of Navisware has been bought for an undisclosed amount and its technologies will be deployed to persistantly protect documents in PDF, Microsoft Office and CAD formats, independent of how they are stored or delivered inside and outside the firewall. Organisations will be able to control how, when, and by whom the documents can be used while at the same time monitoring an audit log of who accessed the document, and indications of improper usage or disclosure. ...more

Google Video service sticks to the script

Google, for once, is playing catch up to search engine rival Yahoo! by launching its own Google Video service Google Video is based around an index of the subtitles or transcripts of US television shows although only from a limited number of channels at present. By entering keywords into the search box, Google returns results based on the text of the shows. Thus, entering 'Iraq' as a keyword will, unsurprisingly, return a large number of news shows and a snippet of the transcript where Iraq is mentioned along with a still image of the programme. ...more