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Sun heralds open-source Solaris era

News But its star has fallen as that of Linux, an open-source rival that's similar in many ways to Unix, has risen. Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software today, as a centrepiece of the company's plan to regain lost...

14 June 2005, 9:03

Cars and stars as Google's Page takes the stage

News Google co-founder Larry Page shared his keynote stage at the Consumer Electronics Show on Friday with comedian Robin Williams, basketball star Kenny Smith and a robotic car. Google wasn't the only company to trot out the celebrities.

7 January 2006, 15:34

Mario one-ups Paris Hilton in survery

News A survey has found that more people can name Nintendo's iconic plumber Mario than the Simple Life star Paris Hilton. The hotel heiress might be a paparazzi favourite, but she's still got a way to go to be as well known as Mario, a survey of 1,000...

Tags: title, cent, name, nintendo

16 November 2007, 8:53

News.blog: Prince plans to sue torrent site

News Continuing an aggressive campaign to defend his copyrights, pop star Prince is preparing to file lawsuits within the next few days in three countries -- including the United States -- against The Pirate Bay, CNET.co.uk's sister site

Tags: international, fans, speech, property

12 November 2007, 9:06

Photos: Famous films, Lego style

News It may not leave you on the edge of your seat, wondering if Darth Maul will take a light saber in the gullet, but then again the original Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace didn't provide an awful lot of genuine tension either.

24 September 2007, 10:49

Wiimote to be lightsaber at last

News Today, LucasArts had an answer: spring 2008, when the publisher of all things Star Wars will release its first game for Nintendo's wildly popular console. Contrary to some rumours, the game in question will not be an all-new title; rather, it will...

19 September 2007, 10:16

The techno-sexual dating game

News Given the more technical nature of its membership, Trekpassionistas have started to blog from the site and often categorise themselves into affinity genres like 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek', or 'Battlestar Galactica'.

5 December 2006, 10:06

A virtual world with peer-to-peer style

News For a virtual world, it starts out very bare: just an empty blue space, with a picture of a cat in a Star Trek costume at its centre. Most big online virtual worlds, such as EverQuest or Star Wars Galaxies, are hosted on big central servers.

10 May 2005, 8:35

Nanobots make themselves into models

News Star shapes would then be cut from the wafer. First, a piece of silicon cut into the shape of a star with many arms is produced. Intel's lab in Pittsburgh, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, showed off a technology concept at the Intel...

2 October 2006, 9:30

Apple music videos hint at film ambitions

News The business is going to go down, down, down before they finally realise what Steve Jobs and a few others have already realised -- that there is a way to make a business model out of this and then people won't steal it quite so readily," Star Wars...

19 July 2005, 10:24

Can anyone kill the iPod this year?

News A shadow the shape of an apple is looming behind many of the star-studded speeches and product announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Even though Apple is probably saving its biggest news for its own Macworld...

9 January 2006, 10:59

MTV has first crack at Windows' new music

News With a patient look on his face, Bill Gates welcomed pop star Justin Timberlake to the stage on Wednesday night during the Microsoft chairman's keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

6 January 2006, 9:09

Lucas: San Francisco filmmaking isn't just porn anymore

News Star Wars director George Lucas opened his new San Francisco Lucasfilm campus on Saturday, in the heart of the wooded Presidio military base, with pomp worthy of an Imperial party. The filmmaker might have a tin ear for dialogue, but he knows...

27 June 2005, 15:33

The £1m Xbox 360 heist

News Two consignments of Xbox 360s were stolen in the UK last week, Wolverhampton newspaper the Express and Star has reported. The first occurred after a lorry was flagged down travelling south on the A38 at Hillards Cross.

28 November 2006, 9:03

'Robo-legs' help amputees get around

News Blond and buff, Cameron Clapp is a teenage star. He recently went to the cinema with his father, Gary, an entertainment publicist in New York, to see Star Wars: Episode III. Dressed fashionably in a faded T-shirt, baggy shorts and sneakers, he...

27 June 2005, 10:13