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

Palm to buy Be

Palm is to acquire software developer Be for $11 million, conditional on Be stockholders' approval, it announced today. The proposed sale of Be's intellectual property and technology assets has been an open secret for some time and though Sony was seen as the most likely purchaser, Palm was believed to be in the frame along with AOL. Be specialises in developing software for to enable rich media and Web content on PCs and Internet appliances. ...more

Bank domain names overdrawn - F-Secure

Computer security firm F-Secure has done an survey into the number of bank names that have been registered as Internet domains, but not by the banks themselves. A simple search across the .com, . ...more

And also today (26-June-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Boost that modem inKline Global has updated its Modem Booster software, designed to optimise your Internet connection settings for more faster Web browsing and file downloads. Version 2. ...more

Symbian smart phone software upgraded for multimedia

Symbian has updated its open standards-based operating system for smartphones. The OS is used by Nokia, Samsung and Siemens amongst others. Features of Symbian OS 8. ...more