War of the Worlds Web site hacked
News A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven Spielberg's film version of HG Wells' novel War of the Worlds, which is set to be released in cinemas this summer. According to a report on Zone-H, a Web site that reports hacking defacements...
[February 14, 2005, 14:10]
Arise Sir Ben
Blog BT's Dutch supremo, Ben Verwaayen, has been awarded an honorary KBE by the Queen, thus joining other non-British recipients such as Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates and George Bush Sr. This is a fantastic tribute to everyone who has worked so hard to...
[December 19, 2007, 10:58]
Spielberg foundation sets up Holocaust Web site
News A Steven Spielberg-backed foundation launched a Web site on Thursday designed as a high-speed gateway into its vast catalogue of testimonies from Holocaust survivors. Spielberg established the Shoah Foundation in 1994 after filming the award...
[February 15, 2002, 12:00]
Catching up with a famous fraudster
News Played by Leonardo DeCaprio in the Steven Spielberg-directed film Catch Me If You Can, one-time fraudster Frank Abagnale knows a thing or two about security systems. During his time on the wrong side of the law, Abagnale posed as an airline pilot...
[November 1, 2007, 11:37]
Gates and friends depict end of an era
News Entertainment heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs at Gates's expense. At the Consumer Electronics Show 2008, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and friends took a comical look at what...
[June 27, 2008, 11:36]
Imagine, Dreamworks team up for Pop.com
News The new company is an equal partnership between some of Hollywood's biggest players, including Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. Imagine Entertainment and Dreamworks SKG announced Monday they will team up to create Pop.com, a new Internet...
[October 26, 1999, 7:55]
Forbes rich list fall prey to high-tech fraudster
News Last month New York City police arrested Abraham Abdallah, 32, a high-school dropout with a history of credit card fraud, alleging he impersonated such personalities as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Oprah Winfrey in order to steal funds and...
[March 20, 2001, 14:04]
Comdex '99: Hollywood auteurs see glamour in biometrics
News On Tuesday, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are due to check out the mouse too. According to star struck witnesses, Francis Ford Coppola was checking out a range of fingerprint scanning mice and pads Tuesday.
[November 16, 1999, 15:54]
Privacy activists call for rules on RFID
News One witness at Monday's hearing said that failing to impose conditions on the use of RFID technology could lead to a world not unlike the fictional society portrayed in Steven Spielberg's science-fiction thriller "Minority Report.
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
Macworld Expo: Mac to the future
News Tue, 09 Jan Will Joe Bloggs the consumer put Steven Spielberg out of work? So far the company has unveiled a major PowerBook redesign and DVD-burning software. Let ZDNet keep you au fait with Apple's fate.
[January 10, 2001, 12:49]
Photos: Famous fraudster hits out at ID cards
News In his keynote, which closed the two-day show, Abagnale told the audience of security professionals about his experiences of being on the wrong side of the law, depicted in the 2003 film Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg and...
[October 25, 2007, 13:25]
Learning from virtual plagues
News One WoW player, known as Valewalker, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com that the effects of the plague looked like a scene from a Steven Spielberg movie. When Erik Jacobson fell victim to a recent plague that ravaged the online game "World of...
[October 17, 2005, 13:00]
Spending on streaming video expected to skyrocket
News Instead, the technology produced a long list of failures, including CMGI-owned iCast, Time Warner's Entertaindom, Steven Spielberg- and Ron Howard-funded Pop.com, the Digital Entertainment Network, Pseudo Programs and Icebox.
[April 12, 2001, 11:14]
Here today, gong tomorrow for 'Sir' Bill Gates
News Once it takes place, he will have joined a select group of honorary knights including former presidents Bush and Reagan, Steven Spielberg, Colin Powell, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Bob Hope. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to receive an...
[January 26, 2004, 8:35]
Frank Abagnale caught on camera at RSA
News Speaking at the RSA Security Conference 2007, the former fraudster turned security and identity specialist discusses his time spent posing as a Pan Am pilot in the 1960s.
[November 5, 2007, 16:16]
Apple, Compaq adding recordable DVD drives
News Could be, if Apple and Compaq have their way. Both companies are scrambling to offer the ultimate in amateur moviemaking: the capability to record movies onto DVDs via a computer. Besides movies, the drives also can be used to make audio DVDs.
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Nuggets: Hi--tech home movies from MGI
News A handful of new features and some major tweaking give us the latest version of MGI Software's video editing software, VideoWave III. MGI reckons this is the first such product to offer support for both analogue video capture hardware, including...
[February 9, 2000, 14:04]
