Thomson's Technicolor Digital Cinema division has opened a digital cinema research and equipment test lab, supporting the entertainment industry's move to shed celluloid for bits and bytes.

Originally built for Disney Animation, the Technicolor Digital Cinema building now houses two projection rooms and digital cinema technology center with networked projectors and servers.

MPs from France's ruling conservative party have blocked a move to legalise Internet downloading of movie and music files, after several days of sharp debate in parliament.
 
The vote by members of the UMP party late Thursday signalled a victory for the government as it pushes through a bill that

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc is holding talks with three Hollywood studios on creating a service to allow consumers to download movies and television programs and copy them onto DVDs, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Citing three people briefed on the discussions, the Times said Amazon is in advanced negotiations with

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. will launch its mobile TV broadcasting phone business in Europe with the first shipment of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB)-enabled handsets to Germany in May, the company said in a report Friday (March 10).

LG said the DMB phone, dubbed LG-V9000, has now been

The introduction of Core is one of the most important technology developments for Intel in years and may determine its success for the rest of the decade and beyond.

By mid-year, the new Core architecture introduced at Intel's Developer Forum this week in San Francisco will provide a single framework that will

Mobile phone content, such as music, gaming and video, is forecast to reach $43 billion worldwide by 2010, up from $5.2 billion in 2004, according to a report released this week.

Mobile music, led by ringtones and ringtunes, represent the largest and fastest-growing content segment for wireless, forecasts research firm iSuppli Corp.

Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes online music and video store on Wednesday launched a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy downloads of television shows on a monthly basis.
 
The venture is being launched by iTunes in partnership with Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central Network, which is rolling out "The Daily

Citibank, the consumer and corporate banking arm of Citigroup Inc., confirmed Wednesday that the bank and its customers were the victims of a third-party company information breach that has forced the bank to block PIN-based transactions for customers in Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

The bank did not disclose when the breach

Verizon Wireless and TiVo on Tuesday announced a deal in which Verizon subscribers will be able to program the latter company's digital video recorder through their mobile phones.
 
Starting this summer, Verizon will offer an application that turns certain mobile phones into a kind of TiVo remote control for scheduling recordings

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud."
 
The proposed settlement, announced by the company Wednesday, would