Panasonic upgrades its Blu-ray disc production line

Panasonic has upgraded its Blu-ray disc production line in preparation for the replication of dual-layer 50GB BD-ROMs. The Torrance, California plant will employ Panasonic spin coating technologies to create the two recordable layers using readily available and therefore cheap UV curable resins. 'Working closely with the movie studios and our replication partners, Panasonic was able to foresee the need for greater disc capacity to give consumers a much richer user experience,' said Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, director of Strategy & Alliances, Panasonic Hollywood Lab. ...more

Liberty Alliance turns its attentions to identity theft

The Liberty Alliance has turned its attention to the question of identity theft. It has produced a white paper outlining ways of reducing identity theft, both in its frequency and its impact on consumers. The Alliance quotes research (April 2003) that worldwide economic losses due to identity theft could reach $2 trillion by 2005. ...more

Some .info about .biz

The seven new top level domains that were announced in November 2000 - .biz, .info, . ...more

Toshiba shows off HD-DVD forward-compatible DVD disc

Toshiba struck another blow for its high capacity DVD technology yesterday when it announced a new disk which supports both the existing DVD and the HD-DVD format. The new disc, unveiled by Toshiba and Memory-Tech is a single-sided unit, with two layers. An upper layer can store up to 4. ...more

AMD looking for gold beyond PCs

A new Alchemy processor from AMD targets the mobile Internet appliance market. Looking beyond PCs, to such mobile devices as Web pads and PDAs, the Alchemy Au1100 processor has emerged from AMD's recent acquisition - in February 2002 - of Alchemy Semiconductor. AMD sees a convergence of technologies (such as wireless broadband communications, low-power but high-performance processors and innovatively-designed mobile devices) as the future beyond personal computers sitting on desktops. ...more