Streamed Cinema

The days of sitting in a darkened cinema with a projected film from the back may be numbered. The future of silver screen may be 'on-demand' video and audio streamed over the internet, according to the University of Southern California. Some 500 people at a recent conference at USC saw a concert performance of a segment of the New World Symphony as it was streamed over the Internet from servers based in Virginia on the opposite side of the US. ...more

SCO announces new licence sign ups as saga takes new twist

The SCO Linux end-user licence and litigation odyssey grows ever stranger, as the company announces new sign ups, several of which don't consider themselves to have signed up to anything at all. Plus new details on SCO's spate of lawsuits reveal that the company switched its sights to DaimlerChrysler right at the last minute, where the previous target had been the Bank of America. Close on the heels of Monday's announcement that EV1Servers. ...more

Huby is an octopus for peripherals

LaCie has unveiled what must be one of the oddest and most striking computer peripherals ever made - the eight-armed Huby. Designed by Paris-based Ora-?to, the Huby (pronounced hub-ee) bursts into eight flexible cables at the end of which are to be found four USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400 ports, a fan and a light. ...more

Nokia records Christmas sales boost

Nokia had a welcome gift this Christmas, as thousands of mobile addicts bought its phones: more than two and a half million of them according to Canalys. The final quarter for 2004 saw shipments of mobile devices rocket 51 per cent, according to the research company, but there were clear winners and losers. Nokia is clearly the former, not only selling nearly 5mn phones in Q4, but also grabbing some serious market share: 45. ...more

Carriers to rule the airwaves

Research from ARC Group suggests that in a post 3G and hotspot-enabled world, it's the network operators that will call the shots, while hot-spot operators will struggle to find a market if they choose to compete with the telcos. Chris White, Telecoms Consultant at ARC Group said: 'Too much attention has been paid to how PWLAN (public wireless LAN) will compete with 3G rather than looking at the benefits of combining both network technologies. Independent PWLAN operators have found it hard to put a viable business case together but with the involvement of mobile operators and the widespread availability of WLAN capable mobile devices, the case looks much stronger. ...more