But Congress voted to require all body scanners to have privacy-protecting software, and the TSA announced in February it was phasing out backscatter systems because they could not meet the new standard.

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NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services.

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Installing antivirus software, for instance, is the most common sense rule for protecting your PC.

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The music, consumer-electronics and software industries continue to struggle to agree on an encryption system for protecting copyright-owners.

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The software, which requires no cumbersome serial number codes, also enables protecting or exporting clips to save indefinitely and setting up "hot zones" to further tailor the motion activation.

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IBM's pledge to make available a slew of its software patents by itself will do little to address the problem of too many patents protecting the wrong things.

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The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.

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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced a pact with Linux software distributor Xandros Monday that will the offer tiny company's customers so-called "patent covenants, " protecting them from the threat of litigation from Microsoft.

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