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

Macs to get USB ADSL

BTopenworld, the Internet division of BT, is poised to launch an ADSL service for USB Macs. In conjunction with Alcatel, which is developing the Mac drivers, BT is expected to launch the service in March. ADSL provides an broadband Internet connection with speeds up to 512Kbps, compared to the standard modem speed of 56Kbps. ...more

Nokia spurns Apple in bid for share of mobile music market

Nokia and Loudeye are to work on a global music service for mobile networks and phones. Nokia has reached an agreement with the company that bought the OD2 music service to create a mobile platform for the delivery of digital music to phones. Motorola recently cut a deal with Apple to use its iTunes software on phones that will be available next year, but instead Nokia is choosing the company that owns OD2, whose technology powers the music services of a number of European ISPs and portals, including Wanadoo and MSN. ...more

Intel launches Celeron M mobile processor

Intel has officially announced the release of a new mobile processor - the Celeron M processor. This is a value version of the power-efficient Pentium M processor for laptops. The Pentium M, of course, is one element in the Centrino wireless networking trinity. ...more

Intel launches new version 9.0 C++ and Fortran development tools

In order to kick start the application base for the upcoming generation of multicore processors, Intel is introducing new tools for software developers. The Intel Compilers version 9.0 for C++ and Fortran have been tuned for multithreaded applications and are said to offer security protection for both the Linux and Windows operating systems by preventing buffer overflows. ...more