DVD giveaways signal woes of once-booming format (Reuters)

Reuters - British newspapers are now giving away free as many DVDs as are being purchased in stores, revealing a stealth contributing factor to the decline of Hollywood's cash cow format.

Nokia's luxury unit strives to meet high demand (Reuters)

Reuters - The luxury unit of the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia, Vertu, has seen strong demand this year and is struggling to increase production to keep up, a senior official said on Thursday.

Avid: Mac Intel support coming in December (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Apple’s introduction last week of the Mac Pro has spurred digital video and audio maven Avid Technology into action. The company has announced plans to support Intel-based Macs with compatible versions of its software and hardware products through the end of the year.

Boingo Rasies Lots of Cash

Boingo, one of the larger hot spot aggregators in the USA has raised a whopping Series C round of $65 million dollars. Clearly on a growth spurt, Boingo will be a crucial part of the Fixed Mobile Convergence world in...

S.Korea wants people in 'smart' clothes (AP)

AP - Technology-savvy South Korea isn't happy making only MP3 players and the memory chips that go inside many of the more popular models. It also wants people wearing South Korean "smart" clothes with built-in digital music players.

An employee walks into AOL headquarters in Dulles Virginia in 2004. AOL has apologized for posting 20 million keyword searches by more than 650,000 of its users on a research website violating company rules on privacy.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)

Group files FTC complaint against AOL (AP)

AP - The backlash against AOL's recent release of its subscribers' search requests continued Wednesday as a privacy rights group filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging the breach was intentional.

A computer at an internet cafe. Reported online crime hit a record high in Japan in the first six months this year, led by growing fraud in Internet auctions.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)

Cyber crime hits new high in Japan (AFP)

AFP - Reported online crime hit a record high in Japan in the first six months this year, led by growing fraud in Internet auctions.

China Mobile posts 25.5 percent rise in first-half profit (AFP)

AFP - China Mobile, the nation's largest mobile phone operator, posted a 25.5 percent rise in first-half net profit boosted by a solid growth in operating revenue and subscriber numbers.

Logitech Unveils Killer iPod Speaker (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - Logitech has announced an impressive new competitor to the Apple iPod Hi-Fi.

A model displays the Nokia 6151. Nokia, the world

Nokia to open flagship store on home turf (AFP)

AFP - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will open a flagship store in Helsinki on Saturday after opening similar stores in Moscow, Chicago and Hong Kong since 2005.

China site offers name cards without consent: Xinhua (Reuters)

Reuters - A Chinese Web site has sparked controversy by posting information from 2 million people's business cards without their consent and winning 5 million visits a month, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

Digital Gear: Back Up, Digitally (PC World)

PC World - Backing up--your PC or your car--can be hard to do. This month's gadgets can help.

A Beijing street vendor of copy DVDs. China has confiscated more than eight million illegal CDs and DVDs as part of a 100-day crackdown on pirated movies and computer software(AFP/File/Frederic J.Brown)

China seizes millions of illegal CDs, DVDs in 100-day crackdown (AFP)

AFP - China has confiscated more than eight million illegal CDs and DVDs as part of a 100-day crackdown on pirated movies and computer software.

iMesh releases legal BearShare (Reuters)

Reuters - IMesh is set to unveil Thursday (August 17) the latest version of BearShare, its recently acquired fellow peer-to-peer network.

Web auction fraud leads surge in Japan cyber crime (Reuters)

Reuters - The number of cyber crimes leapt by nearly 12 percent in Japan in the first half of this year from the same period of 2005, with fraud connected to Internet auctions leading the way, police said on Thursday.

The home of Peggy and Hyman Greenbaum, parents of Davis Hawke, appears surrounded by shrubs, in Medfield, Mass., Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. AOL won a $12.8 million judgment against Hawke in 2005, accusing him of violating anti-spam laws. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company believes are hidden near the home of Hawke

AOL wants to dig for gold _ literally (AP)

AP - Dig this: AOL believes a renegade Internet spammer buried gold and platinum on his family's property in Massachusetts and wants to bring in bulldozers to search for the treasure and satisfy a $12.8 million judgment it won in federal court.

In this undated photo released by Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Project Research Professor Ralph Hollis, left, and Robotics Project Scientist George Kantor are shown with Ballbot, an agile five-foot robot balanced delicately on what resembles a bowling ball, at the university in Pittsburgh. Hollis is modest about his invention, but some experts say robots like Ballbot could one day help provide care and companionship to the nation

Balancing robot may care for elderly (AP)

AP - Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.

REVIEW: Tekken brings fighting fun to PSP (AP)

AP - If you've never played a fighting game like "Tekken: Dark Resurrection," there are a few important things to know. As with most video games, hand-eye coordination is certainly important. But above all else, you need fingers of steel.

Satellite TV giants retire from U.S. wireless sale (Reuters)

Reuters - A joint venture of rival satellite television providers DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. bowed out on Wednesday of a multi-billion-dollar auction of U.S. licenses for advanced wireless services.

Kodak, NCM developing digital theater software (Reuters)

Reuters - Kodak Digital Cinema and National CineMedia LLC, a partnership of the three top U.S. movie theater chains, on Wednesday said they are developing theater management software to automate digital cinema systems now being installed at movie theaters worldwide.

ActiveGrid to move tools to Eclipse (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - San Francisco - ActiveGrid, which calls itself the "Enterprise Web 2.0 company," is moving its tooling over to the Eclipse open source environment and will join the Eclipse Foundation as well.

A screenshot of GameDaily.com, taken on August 16, 2006. Time Warner Inc.

Group files FTC complaint against AOL (AP)

Google launches free wireless Internet service in hometown (AFP)

AFP - Google opened a wireless Internet umbrella over its hometown in northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, enabling anyone in the city to connect online for free.

Hewlett-Packard sign on a HP building. US computer and imaging group Hewlett-Packard unveiled better-than-expected quarterly profits, partly as its software division returned to profitability.(AFP/BELGA/File/Yves Boucau)

Hewlett-Packard profits beat Wall Street forecasts (AFP)

AFP - US computer and imaging group Hewlett-Packard unveiled better-than-expected quarterly profits, partly as its software division returned to profitability.

Balancing robot may care for elderly (AP)

AP - Ballbot, a narrow, 5-foot-tall robot, balances delicately on what looks like a bowling ball. Swaying slightly on a laboratory floor, the aluminum-framed droid seems ready to fall at any moment.

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