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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Jan 22, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The Time Warner unit is launching HBO on Broadband, allowing consumers to watch movies and its pay-TV shows on the Web for "free" It seems you can't read the news these days without coming across a new, improved, gee-whiz service that will make downloa.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Steve Jobs is negotiating with the big studios to offer more movies for sale and rental on iTunes, but both sides will have to give a little It has been Hollywood's worst-kept secret: Steve Jobs is starting to win over the film industry. The Apple (.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 9:41am neoform

ABC News -- Authorities believe a Hong Kong man who lost his appeal today in the territory's highest court is the first in the world to be convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology. Chan Nai-ming, who used the alias 'Big Croo.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sat Jan 27, 2007 @ 10:26am neoform

MSNBC -- Most Americans regard the illegal downloading and distributing of Hollywood movies as something on par with minor parking offenses, according to a report issued Wednesday... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- You don't need to be a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury to have a say in what movies deserve awards. All it takes is an Internet connection and an opinion. Director Spike Lee was in Cannes to hand out awards of $31,360 each to seven emerging dir.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- US DVD rental firm Netflix is to release a set-top box which will let subscribers download movies and other programmes over the net. The box will be built by LG and is the latest move in the battle among content providers and hardware manufacturers to.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Apr 12, 2007 @ 9:38am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Apple Inc. has started selling movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.'s film library on its iTunes website, advancing an effort to obtain material that can be downloaded and played on Apple's iPod and a new set-top box. MGM is selling rights to a.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 11:37pm neoform

Yahoo News -- By the end of the decade, Darth Vader could be rattling sabers with his enemies above the heads of moviegoers, and Buzz Lightyear could be flying off the screen on his way to infinity and beyond. For real — or at least the cinematic version of real: 3.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 11:34pm neoform

Yahoo News -- When movies shifted from videocassettes to DVD, retailers simply cleared the tapes off the shelves to make room for discs. That's not so easy now that movies appear poised to follow music onto the Internet. The shift of music online has hurt stores suc.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:01pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Apple Inc. has graced the public with another smooth, white, exquisitely designed gadget, this time aiming at making it easier to play iTunes movies and songs on the living-room TV set. Too bad, then, that where looks really matter — in the quality of.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 11:17pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Europeana, the new cyber library, will offer over 6 million books, movies, and documents from across Europe, to strengthen cultural diversity The French national library BNF has launched a prototype version of its contribution to a European digital lib.. Read More