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Peter Jackson to Executive Produce Halo movie

5th Oct 2005 Duur, dur dur dur DUR DUR DUR, dur....la la LAAAAAA, ooo ooo-eee-ooo... [0]

Doom rocket set for lift-off

4th Oct 2005 John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace is to launch a vehicle in the annual X-Prize. Gates to Hell on stand-by. [0]

eDonkey bites last carrot

3rd Oct 2005 eDonkey gives up its legal battle against the RIAA and decides to convert to a paid service. [0]

170Mbps broadband from wall socket

3rd Oct 2005 Fancy up to 170Mbps broadband from any wall socket in your house? So do we, and thanks to a new BPL chip from Matsushita, it could be a reality soon. [0]

Paramount first in dual-format support

3rd Oct 2005 Paramount Pictures is the first major studio to publicly announce support for both Blu-ray and HD DVD next generation media formats in the latest twist of The Format Wars. Will consumers be the ultimate casualties? [0]

U.S. Wants To Keep Web

29th Sep 2005 According to Yahoo!, the US refuses to hand over the control of the internet to the UN. Ambassador David Gross thinks that it is unacceptable for the UN to take over the Internet's primary traffic and DNS routers. [0]

Apple to replace nuked nanos

29th Sep 2005 Following a volley of bad press, Apple have done "the right thing" and admitted that there is a genuine problem with the screen on their recently launched iPod nano. Apple will replace broken units free of charge. [0]

BitTorrent gets $8.75m

28th Sep 2005 In a bid to go straight, BitTorrent has secured a bunch of venture capital. It plans to use the money to grow the company and go after Hollywood. [0]

Be launch UK's first 24MBit broadband service

26th Sep 2005 Be Unlimited announce availability of the UK's first 24MBit broadband service. The company beats UK Online out of the starting blocks with an amazing price. [0]

China tightens grip on web news

26th Sep 2005 The world of Chinese internet news will now be policed by the country's Ministry of Information Industry, who will assuredly "standardise the management of news and information" across the country. [0]

Firefox has fleas!

22nd Sep 2005 Firefox bugs this year outnumber IE by 2 to 1. Er, what? [0]

Jobs dismisses iTunes price rise

21st Sep 2005 With over 500 million songs sold on iTunes, legally downloadable music is a success. Now the RIAA want more money; Steve Jobs calls them 'greedy' [0]

ICANN delays .xxx again

19th Sep 2005 ICANN becomes ICANT, saying the .xxx domain will have to have further regulation before getting the go-ahead. [0]

Paris Hilton hacker gets time

16th Sep 2005 The teenager that hacked into Paris' T-Mobile account gets time in a juvenile jail. Possibly preferable to spending time with Paris Hilton. [0]

All Hail Bloogle

15th Sep 2005 Along with everything else on the web, you can now search blogs with Google. [0]

Microsoft offers to settle with Google

14th Sep 2005 After the first preliminary ruling came in last night, Microsoft is looking to finish this off sooner, rather than later. [0]

Clippy to go psychic in Office 12

14th Sep 2005 Office 12 has a new killer feature, according to Bill Gates - it's predictive intelligence. [0]

eBay stumps up gazillions for Skype

13th Sep 2005 The VOIP giant is snapped up by the auctioneer. What are the whys and wherefores? We find out. [0]

eBay to scoop up Skype?

8th Sep 2005 According to the Wall Street Journal, freebie VoIP specialists Skype face a possible multi-billion dollar take over from auction giant eBay. [0]

Yahoo! lambasted over Chinese Journo stitch up

8th Sep 2005 A human-rights group is calling for action over claims Yahoo is 'cheerfully sacrificing human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market'. That's not cool, man. [0]

Google vs Microsoft - Seconds away, Round 1

7th Sep 2005 Finally the Google vs Microsoft bout kicks off - lawyers representing both companies have rolled their sleeves up to fight it out over Kai-Fu Lee - a former Microsoft employee. [0]

Ballmer really hates Google

5th Sep 2005 An amusing transcript has hit the net this morning, revealing what happened when Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, discovered one of his best chaps was going to Google. Much swearing, chair-throwing and general hilarity ensues. [0]

Katrina Relief Fund account frozen by PayPal

5th Sep 2005 The rather unique community at SomethingAwful.com has suffered as a result of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. The site owner attempted to set up a relief fund using a PayPal account, but it was frozen due to 'suspicious activity'. [0]