Los Angeles (CA) - The legal victories for the Motion Picture Association of America continued yesterday, as it announced its member companies have won another injunction against a DVD chip manufacturer for not having implemented the CSS copy protection scheme required by DVD licenses. Last December, the MPAA filed lawsuits against Sunplus and competitor Cheertek for allegedly shipping ICs to player and computer manufacturers that circumvented portions of the Content Scramble System (CSS). Practically since its inception, the copy protection measure has proven somewhat less than adequate, as DVD ripping software that descrambles CSS content has been available since late 1999. The Association sued the IC manufacturers, not their DVD player customers, according to the MPAA, because the latter group were not properly licensed CSS manufacturers themselves, and thus were under no obligation to abide by CSS’ provisions. So another possibility exists that Sunplus and others supplied ICs with the full CSS measures, while leaving the door open for those who purchase them to circumvent those measures at their will....

BIOS manufacturer Phoenix announced a new software which enables users of notebook PCs to access their Outlook data without booting a PC. FirstWare Assistant is an example how the company wants to extend the features of the traditional BIOS and replace it with its Core System Software (CSS) in the future.. Milpitas (CA) - BIOS manufacturer Phoenix announced a new software which enables users of notebook PCs to access their Outlook data without booting a PC. FirstWare Assistant is an example how the company wants to extend the features of the traditional BIOS and replace it with its Core System Software (CSS) in the future. CSS, which extends and replaces the BIOS we know today, will serve as a component for network, security, authentication and system management features. FirstWare Assistant is a simple but very effective tool how CSS in fact can enhance the use of a device, in this case a notebook....

However, many of the features demonstrated today have never been seen in a Microsoft-developed context before -for example, the capability to apply CSS styles to graphical elements in Sparkle by dragging and dropping CSS blocks onto those elements. The rendering takes place through another translation into XHTML, with CSS style sheets, also produced in the background....

Numerous installations of Microsoft ASP.NET are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CSS), according to a recent post by Johannes Westerink to the BugTraq mailing list. CSS leverages JavaScript and makes it possible to place a malicious URL in an e-mail or on a Web site, which if followed will compromise the user's machine by various means, including exposing shares and/or retrieving data files such as cookies....

Phoenix Technologies on November 24 introduced the first product in its new, extensible Core System Software (CSS) category - Phoenix cME TrustedCore NB. Phoenix Technologies on November 24 introduced the first product in its new, extensible Core System Software (CSS) category - Phoenix cME TrustedCore NB. Timothy Eades, Phoenix’s senior vice president of Corporate Marketing and Product Division, spoke to DigiTimes at the company’s South Korean offices about this development....

Microsoft's lead engineer for Internet Explorer 7 has admitted that the browser will not meet a popular test for CSS 2 compliance. Microsoft’s lead engineer for Internet Explorer 7 has admitted that the browser will not meet a popular test for CSS 2 compliance....

Included in the list is the support for and HTML tags, support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties, improved control over the Smart Location Bar and improved font access....