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Nuggets: DVD player in the palm of your hand
News The lithium ion battery gives you 3 hours playing time -- enough for most films. Mini DVD player adds cool to Panasonic Panasonic is launching its second generation portable DVD player -- the DVD-L50 Palm Cinema.
[April 7, 1999, 12:24]
Actor dispatches Amazon's 1-Click patent
News The patent was challenged by Peter Calveley, a New Zealand actor whose credits include appearances — digitally remastered — among Sauron's evil armies in The Lord of the Rings films. The US Patent and Trademark Office has demolished Amazon.com's...
[October 19, 2007, 17:21]
Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux
Talkback This means that anyone using software which conforms to the GPL3 license would be unable to watch any modern films (DVD HD and BD) or copy-protected music. While I admire what Richard Stallman is trying to accomplish, as I've said elsewhere in...
[January 28, 2006, 9:09]
Commercial child porn ring bust leads to 100 arrests
News The child pornography network, operating under the name of Landslide Productions, took credit card payments over the Internet for access to pornographic images and films of children being sexually abused.
[August 9, 2001, 13:00]
MacBook winner investigates wartime enigma
Blog The story of the X craft exploits appears in 'Above Us the Waves' film and book and many other films, books and documentaries have been made on this subject. A few months ago, we ran a competition for a matching black MacBook and USB modem...
[February 13, 2008, 16:59]
Carry On Crashing: Windows 7 starts messing about
Blog Comment I think Rupert you should just put it down to 'a glitch', which does happen from time to time, no matter what OS you're using or DVD you're watching (Carry On Films? BSOD? I honestly havn't seen one of these in years on my PC's at home, not since...
[October 28, 2009, 8:53]
'Star Wars' effects studio shifts to Intel
News ILM created the special effects in the "Star Wars" series of movies, among other blockbuster films. Industrial Light and Magic has joined the Empire, hardware-wise. The technical effects studio has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from...
[July 22, 2002, 8:02]
Dome vistors to be shot into cyberspace
News Avatar rendering software has used to generate a great deal of the special effects for films and computer games, but this is the first time the technology has been made available to the public. Visitors to the Millennium Dome will have the option...
[November 17, 1999, 11:54]
Start-up breeds better chips
News In the vast majority of situations, combining a metal with a living virus or bacteria won't result in a breakthrough, but occasionally the chemical interaction between the metal and a protein from the organism produces elegant -- and potentially...
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Mp3.com was sued by everyone last year for various copyright capers, but settled with everyone -- apart from Vivendi (who owns the Universal stable of films and records). Monday If music is the food of love, will the Hari Krishnas set up a Napster...
[May 25, 2001, 17:50]
DVD industry's fallback plan: Sue!
News Known as the Content Scrambling System, the technology acted as a digital defense protecting what movie studios consider to be near-perfect copies of their films. On Tuesday, the DVD Copy Control Association Inc.filed suit against 21 individuals...
[December 29, 1999, 11:55]
US anti-piracy law gathers strength
Talkback I have a message for all you law makers over there in the USofA GET A FRIGGING LIFE WILL YA for cryin out loud what are you a bunch of wet behind the ears wallet jockeys latching onto the fattest wallet you can find the stupid pox ridden music...
[July 22, 2004, 11:07]
Nokia to pour Java into 100 million phones
News A phone with Java lets someone download software that turns the phone into an MP3 player, minitelevision for watching films, or a portable device capable of accessing e-mails. In what some believe is the most ambitious effort yet to use Java in...
[June 6, 2001, 9:00]
BitTorrent drops its trackers
Talkback Sure, the piraters may show up as a large chunk of bandwidth and have quite a high percentage by bandwidth, but thats because piracy tends to be of extremely high band-width items (like films and TV shows).
[May 23, 2005, 16:42]
Bugs Bunny creator to make Webtoons
News Other animators, including "Ren and Stimpy" creator John Kricfalusi, have created Web-only animated stories, and sites such as AtomFilms have had some success distributing short films online. Chuck Jones, the creator of Bugs Bunny, Marvin the...
[August 17, 2000, 12:02]
Reports: Smith to resign as home secretary
Blog Smith has been criticised both for claiming her sister's home as her main residence for expenses purposes, and for claiming expenses for two pornographic films viewed by her husband. There are various reports that Jacqui Smith is to resign as home...
[June 2, 2009, 13:55]
Half the charges dropped in Pirate Bay trial
News Instead, The Pirate Bay acts as a search engine that points visitors to files — many of which are Hollywood films, music videos and commercial software — available through the BitTorrent protocol. On the first day of the long-awaited criminal trial...
[February 19, 2009, 8:07]
Apple left out of the spotlight
News Studios offers a limited selection of those studios' first-run and classic films, including last year's hit "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. First-run versions of movies are widely available on file-swapping networks such as Kazaa...
[November 18, 2002, 11:41]
Blu-ray appears to have the DVD lead
News Blu-ray appears to have the lead, with most major movie studios saying they'll release films in the format next year. Blu-ray has more clout right now thanks to backing from studios such as Warner Bros.and Paramount, which have said they would...
[November 28, 2005, 16:40]
Google accused in copyright case
News The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2005, alleges that the defendants created the false impression that their sites were legal and promoted them as sponsored links that were displayed when people...
[February 13, 2007, 8:43]
