Movie industry faces music-style downloads battle

The movie industry is gearing up for a fight of the kind of large scale, illegal downloading that has so dismayed the major record labels. However, a new report by AT&T Labs has found that film companies need to get their own house in order before they are tempted to pursue the heavy-handed litigious approach that the music industry has adopted. The report discovered that the main source of movies on the Web is industry insiders. ...more

Wait and see for 64-bit Photoshop

Adobe has no immediate plans to release a 64-bit version of Photoshop CS3, chiefly because there are very few users who would be able to run it, one of the application's co-architects has explained. Scott Byer details the reasons for sticking with 32-bit only on his Adobe blog. Primarily this is due to the fact that the current 10. ...more

Ofsted emails school reports to parents

Keep up to date with the standard of education in your area. Ofsted, the Office for Standards in education, has launched a weekly email alert service for parents, informing them of school performance in up to three local education areas. Parents can choose to receive the email with reports on primary, secondary and special schools, and sixth form and further education colleges. ...more

XPod becomes XPlay

Mediafour has changed the name of its software for connecting the iPod to Windows PCs from XPod to XPlay, following a request by Apple. According to the XPlay FAQs, 'Apple Computer, a company with which Mediafour has always had an amicable relationship, has expressed concern over our use of the name XPod. We believe that we have a legal and ethical right to use the name, so we're disappointed by the situation. ...more

OpenOffice 2.0 released

The new version of the OpenOffice productivity suite is now officially released. The open-source suite now sports a more professional looking user interface and a brand new database module. It also features the ace-in-the-hole - the Open Document file format based on the open-standard OASIS format for office applications. ...more