Tag archive: Oslo

Microsoft may have been unsuccessful so far in its attempts to romance Yahoo, but its moves on a company from Norway have been much more successful. On Friday, Microsoft announced that it had completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer ASA, an enterprise search company based in Oslo. Fast, which provides search platforms to help companies sift through and access internal data, is now a Microsoft subsidiary, but… Read More

It’s not often you’ll find IT professionals worked up enough to stage a protest out on the streets, especially in peaceful Norway. But, according to AP,that’s exactly what happened in Oslo. Around 60 experts in data use took to the street to demonstrate against the adoption of Microsoft’s OfficeOpen XML standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was all put together by Steve Pepper, who… Read More

“Opera Software ASA unveiled Thursday a beta test version of its next Web browser release that features speech recognition, discovery of news feeds and automatic Web-page resizing. While the next release had been on track to be Version 7.60, the Oslo, Norway, company announced a change in plans. It is retooling the version to be more than an update, which will include a yet-to-be-determined name, said Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's… Read More

An Oslo appeals court cleared 20-year-old Jon Johansen, dubbed “DVD Jon,” of piracy charges in late December, angering the U.S. film industry which had hoped for a legal precedent to prevent unauthorized copying of DVDs around the world. Norwegian police, which brought the charges on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), had considered appealing to Norway's Supreme Court by a two-week deadline from… Read More

Upholding a verdict by a lower court in January, the court said that Jon Johansen had broken no laws by helping to unlock a code and distribute a computer program on the Internet enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies. The U.S. movie industry, which says that piracy costs $3.0 billion a year in lost sales, had accused Johansen of theft in cracking the copy-protection code when he was 15 and appealed against the January acquittal.… Read More

The new digital rights management (DRM) technology, called the OMA DRM server, was developed by Oslo-based Beep Science AS, the companies said in a statement. It is based on a standard developed by industry trade group the Open Mobile Alliance. The new technology works on the concept of a restricted peer-to-peer network in which owners of mobile phones equipped with multimedia messaging, or MMS, can send and receive pictures and sound… Read More