Orbital and Bajaj Sign License Agreement
Perth, Australia: Orbital Engine Corporation Limited, Australia and Bajaj Auto Ltd, India have announced a Technical Cooperation agreement that will see Orbital's fuel injection technology applied to a significant volume of Bajaj's autorickshaw three wheeler vehicles. The agreement for seven years provides exclusivity to Bajaj on its autorickshaw vehicles for the three years following the commencement of production, expected to be during 2005. Bajaj, based in Pune, is one of India's largest producers of two and three wheelers and dominates the autorickshaw market segment in Asia. Orbital's direct injection technology provides significantly improved fuel economy and vehicle operating costs, in addition to desirable engine performance.

UCAL Fuel Systems Limited, which entered into arrangements with Orbital in January 2003 to manufacture Orbital's fuel injection systems in India, will be the supplier to Bajaj. Synerject, Orbital's manufacturing joint venture with Siemens-VDO Automotive Corporation, will initially supply selected components, such as the air injector, to UCAL. Orbital is an international developer of engine and related technologies, providing research, design and development services for the worlds producers of powertrains and engine management systems for application in motorcycles, marine and recreational vehicles, automobiles and trucks.
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New version of Windows Media Digital Rights Management
Redmond, USA: Microsoft Corp. has unveiled the features of the next version of its Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, and announced early adopters of the platform, including leading online music and movie services entertainment companies, consumer electronics manufacturers and chipmakers.

Microsoft's next generation of Windows Media DRM technology will make new scenarios possible, such as protecting, delivering and playing subscription-based or on-demand digital music and video. These scenarios span Windows based PCs and devices, including portable audio devices, Portable Media Centres, cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as Windows Mobile based Pocket PCs and Smart phones, and networked devices connected within the home, including those that connect over a wireless network.

With the growth in popularity of portable media players and the emerging market for networked media devices, such as digital audio receivers, content owners want to make sure that their music and movies can be enjoyed by consumers in a variety of situations while still being protected from piracy. Microsoft's new DRM will enable a more secure yet seamless flow of content to dozens of devices, and support the widest range of purchase and rental options for digital media ever available.

License chaining makes it easier for licenses to be renewed (a direct benefit for consumers with large content libraries filled with subscription content), and support for secure time clocks and metering make it possible for services to offer subscription content to portable devices for transfer and playback for the first time. In addition, improved license synchronization and license store performance make it easier and faster for consumers to manage and access their music.

Microchip and device manufacturers can implement support for next-generation Windows Media DRM today through porting kits that include ANSI C code and other tools to help them rapidly integrate these new features into any device, including portable media players, set-top boxes, mobile devices or digital media receivers. Also available is the Windows Media Rights Manager Software Development Kit (SDK), which supports the new DRM functionality being delivered on the PC and devices.
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China hosts 71 per cent of websites of spam Email
Mountain View,USA: Commtouch, the innovator of anti-spam solutions featuring Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology, has reported that the Commtouch Spam Detection Center and Lab found in the month of April that 71 percent of the URLs which appear in spam email are hosted in China. Most of the unsolicited messages sent over the Internet have one or more link (URL) in the message; spammers are setting those links to provide more information regarding the products/services they are trying to promote, or to allow users to buy the promoted products online. Commtouch found that in April, 71 percent of those URLs are hosted in China, and the United States was second, hosting 22 per cent of the spammer websites.

While China is hosting the most spammer websites, the United States continues to be the point of origin for the dissemination of spam, sending 60.5% of spam. The fact that 71 per cent of spammers websites are hosted in China and 60.5 per cent of the global spam is sent from the United States demonstrates that spam is a global problem and that spam is being sent from one country while another country is used as a hosted website to 'close the loop' of the spam transaction. Commtouch reports that the top 10 countries in global distribution of spam websites in the month of April are:
China- 71 per cent
U.S. - 22 per cent
Brazil - 2.3 per cent
South Korea - 1.8 per cent
Russian Federation -1.5 per cent
Canada - 0.6 per cent
Pakistan - 0.24 per cent
U.K. - 0.07 per cent
Romania - 0.03 per cent
Germany - 0.03 per cent
France - 0.06 per cent
In regard to the global origin of spam in the month of April, Commtouch identified spam being sent from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in 155 countries, with Hong Kong (separately from China) breaking in to the top 10 list of countries that send the most volume of spam email:
U.S. - 60.5 per cent
China - 6.2 per cent
South Korea - 4.9 per cent
Canada - 4.3 per cent
Brazil - 2.9 per cent
France - 2 per cent
Hong Kong - 1.7 per cent
Spain - 1.7 per cent
Japan - 1.2 per cent
Netherlands - 1.2 per cent
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