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CRT TVs: Not dead yet

News Though manufacturers and retailers have sounded a death knell for cathode ray tube TVs, those trusty old boxes are still holding on for dear life. At the end of 2006, CRTs accounted for 46 per cent of all televisions shipped to North American...

26 February 2007, 10:53

Google and Yahoo take July search prizes

News For the moment, add Google's search dominance to the short list -- death and taxes -- of things that are inevitable. For July, Google was the market share leader in the US search arena, accounting for 36.5 per cent of all searches submitted...

22 August 2005, 8:41

Database to track Dutch from cradle to grave

News The Netherlands' Ministry of Health has announced plans to create an electronic database that keeps details on each child from birth until death. The scheme, which will come into effect on 1 January 2007, will compile and retain indefinitely...

16 September 2005, 8:47

Photos: 'Star Wars' fan frenzy in LA

News On entering the Los Angeles Convention Center, visitors are greeted by a huge model of the Death Star, which hangs from the ceiling. Celebration IV is a Star Wars fan fest that's taking place in Los Angeles this week.

25 May 2007, 10:37

Site of the living dead -- cult films hit Web

News Last week, Veoh Networks began offering free downloads of cult classics, including kung fu flicks such as Ninja Death 1, John Wayne movies like The Lucky Texan and black-and-white horrors such as The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

9 March 2006, 9:19

Windows XP flaw could allow DoS attacks

News An attacker could remotely exploit the problem to crash a victim's PC, which would then display the Windows 'blue screen of death', according to a posting on the Security Protocols Web site earlier this week.

18 July 2005, 9:03

'Graveyard Games' hits San Francisco

News It revolves around the fictional story of the late Lionel "Lucky" Brown, who decreed that upon his death some of his fortune would be used for poker-based wakes at various American cemeteries. I'm one of at about 100 people gathered in one of the...

17 October 2005, 8:35

US military security defeated by copy and paste

News The document is a report written after an investigation into the death of Italian citizen Nicola Calipari at a checkpoint in Iraq. Experts are warning people to be careful with electronic documents that contain sensitive data after a breach in...

5 May 2005, 9:19

'Manhunt 2' approved for sale in US

News While a game cannot be banned outright by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in the US, it can receive an AO for Adults Only rating, which is a similar kiss of death due to release and sales policies -- many major retailers in the country...

28 August 2007, 9:01

Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords

News How many have a password policy that says under penalty of death you shall not write down your password? Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because such bans force people to use the same weak term on many systems...

25 May 2005, 8:51

'Watchdog' tackles Xbox 360 complaints

News Watchdog highlighted two cases in which consoles that had just come out of the one-year warranty period had shown the dreaded 'ring of death' -- referring to the three red lights which appear on the console to indicate a fatal hardware fault.

15 February 2007, 11:10

News.blog: Using the Force via USB

News Unfortunately, the likeness is more laughable than Death Star imposing. Released a Darth Vader USB flash drive, Mimoco has. Credit: Mimoco The new USB stick is part of the Star Wars Mimobot series that Mimoco is showing at this week's DigitalLife...

13 October 2006, 9:43

Report: Paramount to back Blu-ray?

News The newspaper believes that this would be the 'death knell' for Yesterday's Financial Times reveals that according to its sources, Paramount is 'poised to reveal' it will be abandoning the HD DVD format in order to go Blu-ray exclusive.The article...

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9 January 2008, 11:37

Morgan Freeman: Internet will spur movie creativity

News The final cut of Touch of Evil, the classic directed by Orson Welles, got to the big screen in the form intended by Welles only after his death, Freeman noted. Hollywood is going the way of Dell, Morgan Freeman says.

9 January 2006, 8:47

Wearable game weaves clues into clothes

News The story involves the mysterious death of the manager of a fictional band called Poor Richard. If you find yourself wearing clothes from a new company called Edoc Laundry, beware: strangers may walk up to you on the street to examine the...

22 February 2006, 9:45