DVD pirates hounded by canine detectors

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), express delivery company FedEx and HM Revenue and Customs have gone to the dogs. They have recruited two Labradors whose purpose is to track the scent of pirate DVDs entering the country. The hounds are part of a worldwide project promoted by the Motion Picture Association of America in its bid to halt the global traffic in bootleg movies. ...more

Mozilla Web browser update released

The Mozilla Organization has released version 1.4 RC2 of its open source, standards based Web browser. Although somewhat on the hefty side, largely due to the combination of browser, email software and chat client, Mozilla is serious alternative to better known Web browsers. ...more

Your kids' Nativity play: the movie

Forget sitting in a musty old school hall watching Mary, Joseph et al stumbling over their lines. Intel is to launch a digital video camera aimed at kids this Christmas, which will enable to create their own Yuletide film. Make that a short film though, as the Intel Play Digital Movie Creator will only create four minute episodes with audio. ...more

IBM and Sony showcase next-gen Cell processor

The first 'Cell' processor-based workstation has been powered up, declare the joint developers IBM, Sony and Toshiba. The prototype workstation features the next generation microprocessor aimed at digital entertainment devices such as the next-gen gaming consoles. 'Cell processor-based workstations will totally change the digital content creation environment,' boasts Masayuki Chatani, corporate CTO of Sony Computer Entertainment. ...more

TV Genius puts brains into channel-flipping

Something for those of you who get frustrated picking out quality television programmes from the morass of general scheduling - the interesting website www.tvgenius.co. ...more