US movie industry denies TorrentSpy.com theft claims

The US movie industry has denied claims that it paid a hacker to steal information from TorrentSpy.com, a prominent BitTorrent search engine. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) described the allegation that it offered $15,000 for information stolen from the website as 'baseless'. ...more

Wii gamers tap top news

Read all about it, on your Wii - Nintendo is to provide a news service over an online channel on its new console. The Wii already has weather forecast and shopping channels, among others, and Nintendo has announced it will be adding a News Channel to the mix, courtesy of Associated Press. The free channel of worldwide headline news and pictures will have a beta status at launch, but 'the final version will be coming soon,' promises Nintendo. ...more

Kylix 3 - coming to a development machine near you

C++ support is combined with Delphi in the latest release of Borland's Kylix development system. As well as its Object Pascal-based Delphi language, Kylix now supports the ANSI/ISO C++ language for programmers targeting the Linux platform. It's a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment that employs drag and drop techniques to quickly build an application. ...more

IBM demo Bluetooth with Linux

The Bluetooth Developers Conference is well underway in San Jose, California and IBM has been showing off a watch-like Bluetooth device. The company has already showed off the watch-sized device that runs the Linux operating system earlier in the year and now IBM has unveiled an add-on module that brings Bluetooth connectivity to the unit. In a demo, the watch was seen to communicate with a laptop with a PC card Bluetooth module, with characters typed on the laptop appearing on the screen of the watch. ...more

KaZaA faces clean-up deadline

An Australian court has given KaZaA-owner Sharman Networks until 5 December to remove all copyrighted material or shut down. The P2P operator now faces having to implement a 3,000 keyword filter before its appeal against the September ruling that it had unlawfully encouraged users of the software to share copyrighted files. Not surprisingly the record industry welcomed the latest development. ...more