I'm not thinking this is an appropriate counter story to the Mac users new iTunes services and software, but the folks at XM Radio announced that they will make available their satellite radio service directly on PC desktops using the cryptically named XMPCR.

To almost nobody's surprise, Apple announced a series of new products related to personal music. In the follow on to "Rip, Mix, Burn", Apple is now encouraging people to "Buy, Mix, iPod". Stay tuned for a series of reviews on the music service and the new iPod (ordered today, hopefully …

Bulletproof Monk is another martial-arts film starring Yun-Fat Chow (also referred to as Chow Yun-Fat), one of the more successful Chinese action stars. Following in the footsteps of Jackie Chan, Yun-Fat has parlayed a couple of cross-over roles into larger-budget films based in the US with more elaborate special effects …

An article on The Register provides information about the 19 -year-old now being charged with Economic Espionage for giving away DirecTV secrets for financial gain of third parties.

An article from Infoworld details the moves by a Boston company, 321 Studios to sue nine movie companies in order to prevent them from suing them later over potential DMCA violations.

If you are a current DirecTV customer with an account in good standing, the company wants you to beta test new systems. Click here1 for the information from Beta News. Original link (http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1051091353) no longer available as of 2025-12-22. No reliable archive …

With the theories about Apple's upcoming music offerings garnering more momentum every day, the company has now sent out invitations for a special event on April 28. It appears, from an article on MacCentral that invitations have been sent out and we will all know next week.

I will admit to having started in to Holes with almost no knowledge of the film. I had seen part of the preview once and had read no reviews or synopsis prior to entering the theater. This, by the way, is the way I like it. I'm one of those …

Industrial Light and Magic(ILM), George Lucas's special effects house, is reportedly using real-time preview capabilities to show the integration between CGI characters and the actors within seconds of the original take. An article from the Sydney Morning Herald gives some interesting details.

According to this story on MacRumors, Apple's much-rumored music service is nearly ready to go. Reports indicate that 5 major labels have signed up to provide their tunes for a fee to Apple for use in the service. This accompanies recent stories that Apple may be buying Universal Records from …

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Although it isn't a product announcement or press release of same, it is an interesting step in the direction of the intermingling of the internet and consumer electronics. Philips Semiconductors, the electronics giant, has modified their consumer DVD-R reference design to incorporate broadband internet connectivity and video streaming. An article …

I like Japan and I like Japanese anime, so I'm going to be inclined to like a movie like Spirited Away. And so, I wasn't surprised, and neither should you be, that I thoroughly enjoyed this award winning film (Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, 2003). The animation was an …

You probably think that I'm joking, but there's a real film named Uncle Saddam. The film is a rather sarcastic set of footage about the dictator that focuses on the man as he is now (paranoid, egotistical), not on the plight of his people or his past. BBC News has …

I'm not a huge fan of Stephen King novels being made into movies. I don't read a lot of King, but he generally writes too much stuff to stick into a 2-3 hour movie, so they more often than not get panned and end up being very empty and hard …

This week's new Science Fiction release, The Core, is a fun ride, but you need to check your scientific knowledge and calculators at the door. The basic premise (you can see all of this in the trailer) is that the core of the Earth has stopped spinning and our intrepid …

The DVD Revolution OS, which contains interviews with the likes of Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, was released earlier this week without any of the usual copy protection. In keeping with the Open Source theme of the work, this DVD contains no CSS encryption, but the author still hopes that …

OK, this was neat. I was sitting in a room with a television on mute and all of a sudden, the mute came off and an EAS (Emergency Alert System) message was displayed. Very cool.

As with any compromise position, the FCC's decision to go forward with some form of "broadcast flag" to limit the reproduction of TV signals that have copyright protection is taking heat from all sides. According to an article on CNet, congress is upset that the FCC might make rules that …

From an article1 from Australian IT, comes a report that the Australian Federal Police have executed search warrants on Telstra and other ISPs to get the names of users who may be involved in music piracy. In another blow for the anonymity of the internet and a win for …