Digital TV for ?100

Give your analogue TV digital quality and extra free-to-air channels with the Digital TV Adaptor. In a boost to the Government's digital switch plans for 2006 to 2010, Pace Micro Technology has announced a world first with its ?99.99 set-top box that can receive free-to-air digital channels and is easily upgradeable to payTV subscriptions at a later date. ...more

Screenshots undermine Blu-ray DRM

Less than a month into their lives and the much vaunted DRM systems of both Blu-ray and HD DVD have been circumvented. German computer magazine c't found that movie content on the high-resolution discs can be copied frame-by-frame and reassembled, simply be taking screenshots. 'C't has discovered that the first software players running on Windows XP allow screenshots of the movies to be created in full resolution,' p2pnet reports. ...more

Google's Search History reveals full Web trail

Google has expanded its Search History service so you can track track not only your Web searches but also every page on the Internet that you visit. To reflect the change, the service has been renamed Google Web History. Web History is available to anyone with Google Toolbar installed in their browser and the PageRank feature enabled. ...more

WAP's second coming

Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola have announced their support for the emerging XHTML Basic-based WAP 2.0. By adopting a standard in use on the Internet, WAP 2. ...more

Streaming movies from the Web

As if an abundance of digital TV, satellite and DVD isn't enough to keep the film fan satisfied, a new website delivering streamed movies has been launched. CinemaNow is the first to offer securely streamed films on demand and is backed by Lions Gate Entertainment. To prove that the films they are offering are none of that straight-to-video dross you find at your local video shop, one of the first films to be offered is called Heaven's Burning and stars Gladiator's Russell Crowe. ...more