Brett Thomas

MPAA swipes at PVR

A new bill before the US Congress favours the MPAA with proposed anti-copying restrictions on all digital video recording devices. This time the MPAA is aligning its sights in readiness to snipe PVR/DVR technologies.

December 20, 2005 | 21:15

Three people sued for XBox mod

XBox modders beware, Microsoft is on the prowl for illegal modifications done to original XBox consoles. Three men in court over conspiracy to commit piracy after modifying XBox consoles.

December 20, 2005 | 17:12

TV Online?

TV is set to take another step forwards soon. On-demand video streaming of your favourite TV shows, without Bit-Torrent. Superb.

December 19, 2005 | 19:42

MS Gets Cold Shoulder from Time Warner

The Microsoft vs Google war continues. Time Warner has brushed Microsoft off its bargaining table, as they look for a friendly face on the web. Google is now in exclusive talks with Time Warner and are set to receive a 5% stake in AOL, worth over $1 billion.

December 19, 2005 | 19:20

US to continue running the interweb

ICANN, the quasi-governmental agency, is to continue running the DNS for the web, after threats from European countries and China to cause aggravation.

November 17, 2005 | 09:35

Internet 2 P2P gets the smackdown

The entertainment authorities manage to get another file-sharing network taken out. Students have been using the Internet 2 to transfer terabytes of data across the country to each other, but no more.

November 17, 2005 | 09:26

Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion interview

Bethesda's next RPG, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, is simply gorgeous. We asked Brett Thomas to polish his suit of armour and find out more about this Xbox 360 and PC stunner in this exclusive interview with the game's Producer, Gavin Carter.

November 9, 2005 | 09:00

Macrovision's New Licences Transferable

Macrovision, the company behind the FlexNet software suite, have released the latest incarnation of FlexNet Publisher. It's different from previous instalments, as it features a transferable licence. Could this be a big shift in the software industry, including ISVs using digital distribution methods?

October 11, 2005 | 11:32

eDonkey bites last carrot

eDonkey gives up its legal battle against the RIAA and decides to convert to a paid service.

October 3, 2005 | 17:15

U.S. Wants To Keep Web

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.

September 29, 2005 | 17:15

Screw the Nano! No, wait...

Motorola Exec derides Nano, espouses Rockr. Motorola PR goes into Spin City...

September 27, 2005 | 19:57

Epic's VP talks next-gen

Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games, sat down and talked about the size of video games, used games purchases and electronic distribution with our friends from Computer and Video Games. It looks like games aren't going to get any smaller...

September 26, 2005 | 18:36

China tightens grip on web news

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.

September 26, 2005 | 14:29

Firefox has fleas!

Firefox bugs this year outnumber IE by 2 to 1. Er, what?

September 22, 2005 | 22:19

Jobs dismisses iTunes price rise

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'

September 21, 2005 | 14:26

All Hail Bloogle

Along with everything else on the web, you can now search blogs with Google.

September 15, 2005 | 17:26

Tivo DRM gets an accidental workout

Tivo has shown what it is capable of, as several shows get 'accidentally' broadcast with a no-recording flag.

September 14, 2005 | 21:56

Microsoft offers to settle with Google

After the first preliminary ruling came in last night, Microsoft is looking to finish this off sooner, rather than later.

September 14, 2005 | 13:59

Clippy to go psychic in Office 12

Office 12 has a new killer feature, according to Bill Gates - it's predictive intelligence.

September 14, 2005 | 07:15

Xbox Live UK pricing official

Silver included with the console, Gold gives you extras. It's pretty cheap, and you don't need a credit card, either.

September 13, 2005 | 20:21

Samsung announces 16GB flash chips

16GB. On a single chip. Say hello to 60GB and upwards of solid state iPod, with Apple already signed on.

September 12, 2005 | 16:04

Court WoWs with Battle.net bypass ruling

Three gamers who coded their own server software in response to problems with Blizzard's Battle.net have lost their appeal against a ban on their work.

September 3, 2005 | 04:27

Intel plans Digital Communities

Intel are leading research into what they call Digital Communities - everybody online everywhere. There are many benefits, but also privacy concerns. Are you ready for Intel Outside?

August 19, 2005 | 04:13