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Three Strikes for All

A secret ACTA Internet chapter leaked and unveils a 'Three Strikes' reaction to internet piracy. For critics it presents the true motor of globalisation and the world wide spreading of the US-american Digital Millenium Copyright Act ... [More]

Paramount announced movies on flash media

A partnership between Paramount Pictures and tech company Kingston has been established. Plans are to offer full-length movies on flash drives ... [More]

Creative announced own ebook reader

Sound cards and multimedia player manufacturer Creative recently launched its own ebook reader, dubbed 'Zee MediaBook', which does exactly as its name implies: reading books and playing back media ... [More]

District 9 comes with God of War

Sony Pictures' startling event 'District 9' will be available at the end of the year, exactly on December, 29th - and hiding a little unexpected surprise in its Blu-ray version: a 'God of War III' video game demo ... [More]

Geohot unlocks iPhone baseband

The iPhone jailbreaker Geohot did it again and unlocked Apple's popular smartphone another time: As the famous 'Blackra1n' jailbreaking software before the updated baseband unlock software called 'Blacksn0w' will free the iPhone from any bindings to certain carriers ... [More]

Transformer sells

Crisis, what crisis? Illegal copies? Never heard. Despite hordes of internet pirates and a bad global economy, Paramount's 'Transformers 2' sells, and sells, and sells - more than 1.2 million Blu-ray discs in the first week after the initial release ... [More]

Double Feature Update for Microsoft's Xbox 360

Coming out of a longer no-new-features-for-the-Xbox cycle Microsoft's game device will get two firmware updates in just one week: yesterday an update has been released, which will bring WPA2 security for WLAN networks, and next week another one will expand its Dashboard with community services ... [More]

End of free beer at Hulu?

Owned by NBC Universal, News Corp and Disney, the free video platform Hulu thinks about getting rid of the 'free' part - or at least News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey does in a discourse given before an audience of broadcast and cable executives ... [More]

Netflix plans streaming services outside of U.S - maybe even on Wii and PS3

Seems like the streaming service and movie download portal Netflix likes to expand in different directions - because of its Xbox 360 success on more home devices and besides that on more countries outside the U.S. ... [More]

Blu-ray add-on for Xbox 360 ... or not?

In an interview with Gizmodo Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirms a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360 - while its german production manager for the gaming console denies ... [More]