MPAA sues 22 movie websites

The Hollywood movie studios have filed a lawsuit against 22 websites which they claim 'encourage and facilitate movie piracy'. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) alleges that the sites, operating out of five US states, claim or imply that their users can download movies legally, whereas in fact they merely connect them to unauthorised peer-to-peer downloads. The websites listed in the lawsuit include allmoviedownloads. ...more

Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on books (part 3)

O'Reilly & Associates is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. To mark the event - and coinciding with a visit of Tim O'Reilly to London - we put the important questions to him regarding the battle between IBM and SCO, the fate of Linux, his involvement in the world of open source, and his love of science fiction.. ...more

AOL loses $54bn in three months

Gaining 1.4 million new AOL subscribers could not prevent AOL Time Warner - the largest media company in the world - reporting a loss of $54.2bn for its first-quarter financial results. ...more

Record domestic PC shipments in Japan

A Japanese technology association has reported that domestic PC shipments reached record levels in the last half-year of April to September. This is despite more sluggish consumer spending in Japan as a whole. The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said 5. ...more

New Eudora takes on spam

Qualcomm has released a new version of its Eudora email software including a new, intelligent anti-spam component. SpamWatch comprises several tools designed to work 'right out of the box'. Spam is placed in a junk mail box and given a numeric ranking - its 'junk score' - where a higher number indicates e-mail with a greater number of criteria defining that mail as spam. ...more