OS X grabs Snapz Pro

Ambrosia Software has announced that the OS X version of the multi-featured screen capture utility Snapz Pro will be available within a few days. Snapz Pro has been completely re-written for the new OS and contains many features not available with OS X's Grab utility, including the ability to capture movies in QuickTime. Features new to Snapz pro X include the new Object tool that enables the user to select multiple objects and capture them in a single shot; capture of OS X's 'genie' effect and bouncing dock icons in mid-flow, or as a complete movie; and capture of full-screen iTunes visualizations and of screensavers. ...more

Apple seeks iPod content on Blu-ray disks

Apple is asking movie studios to include video content for iPods on Blu-ray discs, according to iPod Hub. The website says that industry insiders have reported that Apple wants to have content available before its next iPod model is introduced. This, the report says, will be the long-awaited large-screen version. ...more

Copyright Office gives Lexmark-duping cartridges the all clear

Static Control Components (SCC) is happily totting up damages to present to Lexmark following the US Copyright Office's decision that its printer-fooling microchips do not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). William 'Skip' London, General Counsel for SCC, said that the Office found that 'the DMCA allows aftermarket companies to develop software for the purpose of allowing the functional operability of remanufactured toner cartridges and printers.' The company fell into Lexmark's bad books for selling its Smartek chip that duped the printers into believing that recycled cartridges were genuine Lexmark ones. ...more

MGM backs Blu-ray

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the latest movie studio to back the Blu-ray consortium headed by Sony. The studio is behind the James Bond and Pink Panther franchises. It is also of course the copyright holder of some of the biggest movies and TV programmes of the last 100 years and its archive will give a huge boost to the number of titles available on the new format - many of which will be in high definition for the first time. ...more

Europe agrees mobile roaming price caps

European Union legislators were set to back a popular plan on Wednesday to slash the cost of using mobile phones abroad in the 27-member bloc. The EU's executive Commission says the plan will cut prices to a quarter or a fifth of what EU citizens now pay for calls back home from other member states. The price caps are part of a push by the Union to show it can bring real benefits to its 490 million citizens, many of whom complain Brussels is too remote from their daily lives. ...more