Joint venture pushes forward digital cinema age

While "Star Wars: episode II" is filmed solely using digital technology, Mr Lucas must be wondering how the masses will see the film as it is meant to be seen, in a digital theatre. A joint venture between Qualcomm and Technicolor is set to allay these fears as it will underwrite part of the $150,000 estimated cost of converting celluloid cinemas to digital dens. Mobile communications company Qualcomm and film processor Technicolor, a division of Thomson, have formed a joint venture called Technicolor Digital Cinema is offering to pay for installing and maintaining the digital projection systems in return for a 12. ...more

Scotsman arrested for denial of service attacks

According to the BBC, a Scotsman has been arrested in the culmination of a joint operation between Scottish police and the US Secret service. Operation Casper sought to track down those behind denial of service attacks, which marshalled great numbers of compromised computers to shovel data to websites, slowing them down the site or even knocking it offline completely. Such attacks have often been used in extortion strategies targeting online betting shops. ...more

Holding your hand for Java development

Java developers with an eye on Palm OS-based devices should take note: Borland has just released a preview version of its JBuilder Handheld Express. JBuilder is Borland's Java visual development tool and the Handheld Express is an add-on to address themarket for network-connected devices. The add-on to JBuilder 4 extends the development environment with new Wizards and other functionality to simplify development for the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) platform. ...more

Worldwide cable modem market grew 19 per cent in 3Q

Vendors will start to see even more intense competition for the low-end, simple-functionality modems Worldwide cable modem market shipments totaled more than three million units in the third quarter of 2002, up by 19.4 per cent from 2.5 million units a year earlier, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. ...more

Microsoft denies WGA is 'spyware'

Microsoft has run into trouble over its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) programme. A researcher has discovered that a test version of the WGA Notifications component of the system communicates with the Microsoft servers every time the PC is switched on. WGA Notifications reminds users who fail validation that they are not running genuine Windows. ...more