China exported $180 billion worth of information and communications technology (ICT) goods last year, including mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras, up from $123 billion in 2003. ICT exports from the U.S. grew at a slower rate, rising from $137 billion in 2003 to $149 billion in 2004, the OECD said. The data also showed [...]

Ninety percent of illegal DVDs being sold are the result of a camcorder recording straight off a cinema screen, Serge Corriveau of the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Association told Variety.   He said 40 percent to 50 percent of the camcorded DVDs are made in Montreal. Because movies are released in French and English in [...]

PIGGYBACKING ON the popularity of the Mission Impossible TV series, Staellium has just launched a new mobile service called Stealth Text.   It seems to be proving so popular you can’t get through to it. The objective is to send people text messages which ‘self-destruct’ after they’ve been sent. Customers for this service are expected [...]

Proposed by Uri party lawmaker Woo Sang-ho, the bill forces Internet companies to supervise file transactions between their users, and to delete or stop them when the contents are copyrighted materials such as music or video files.   The bill also says that the companies would be punished for up to 50 million won in [...]

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Using a mobile phone to buy movie tickets and check showtimes is one thing, but Sprint offers the whole movie.   Provided by vendor MSpot, the service offers unlimited shows and movies for a monthly flat fee of $6.95, on top of regular service charges.   The announcement comes as Sprint and other wireless phone [...]

A leading service that attempted to dissuade people from using file-trading networks like Kazaa, by planting millions of fake files online, is being shut down. Seattle-based Loudeye said Friday that it is shuttering its Overpeer division, effective immediately, in an attempt to bolster the parent company’s bottom line. Executives did not immediately return a request [...]

The Music Publishers’ Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006.   MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. He said unlicensed guitar tabs and song scores were widely available on the internet but were "completely illegal".   Mr Keiser [...]

A suit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona Thursday alleges that William Homer, 41, illegally downloaded the 2005 movies "Are We There Yet?" and "Hitch" on March 25 from the Internet via the BearShare file-sharing program.   Both movies were in theaters at the time. Homer said Thursday he didn’t know how to download [...]

Japan’s Transport Ministry notified the airline after it noticed Wednesday that passwords for 16 Japanese airports — including the two serving Tokyo — as well as for Guam International Airport had been posted on Internet bulletin boards, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Friday.   Moreover, the ministry confirmed that the Boeing 767 instruction manual had been [...]

Every evening rush hour, hustlers lugging bags full of bootlegged movies walk the subway train aisles, calling "two for five dollars!" as brazenly as if they were selling hot dogs at Yankee Stadium. At those prices, the DVDs, often of current Hollywood blockbusters, sell well, despite laughable sound and picture quality. Few customers seem to [...]

A new "Sober" worm is set to hit in January in an attack tied to the founding of the Nazi party that could slow the Internet with tens of millions of politically-motivated spam e-mails, security experts said Wednesday.   The impending outbreak is the latest variant of a worm that that last hit the Internet [...]

About 35 percent of the world’s software is pirated, coming down only 1 percent a year, research group IDC found in a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance, which represents about 50 software companies.   "A key trend over the last two or three years is organized piracy, which has become a legitimate business [...]

Intel is working on a research project that would immediately notify PC users if they inadvertently download a rootkit such as the XCP (extended copy protection) software found on certain music CDs shipped by Sony, researchers said Tuesday.   Intel today held an open house for press, analysts, students, and employees in Folsom, California, to [...]

A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO GIVE A GLOBAL SHOUTOUT WITH SHOUTCAST AND WINAMP For those budding internet spinsters out there heres a quick how-to-guide on how to configure your own DJ booth from home and get the globe groovin to those old MP3′s on your PC. STEP 1 Download WINAMP Music Player STEP 2

You only get the full programme by coming back to the restaurant a number of times to collect all the instalments. McDonalds could use the system instead of giving out toys with Happy Meals, suggests Disney’s patent.   Portable players and modern cellphones store entertainment files in memory cards. They often have built-in Bluetooth or [...]

It’s the fourth year that CBS Sports will offer the mostly regional games–ones that wouldn’t appear across the whole network. Beginning with the first games March 16, there will be up to 56 NCAA men’s tournament games available on the Web through the regional semi-finals.   For the first three years, including last year, it [...]

Laws were written to protect people, not to give huge, multi-billion dollar mega-corporations a way to terrorize them.   Will the law work equally well for an ordinary person with no heavyweight legal team and no unimaginably vast financial resources behind her?   Patricia Santangelo will find out as she represents herself in the first [...]

Inmarsat, which operates a constellation of satellites that enable phone, fax, video and Internet access from anywhere in the world, said on Wednesday that its new Broadband Global Area Network, or BGAN, will enable data transfer speeds of up to 492 kilobits per second.   "It enables anyone to set up a broadband mobile office [...]

A great example of the state of the art comes from a new company called Riya, which recently launched a beta facial-recognition service for the masses. The service builds on current multimedia search techniques. With billions of bits of information out there, finding what you want is impossible without good search tools, and there hasn’t [...]