It's amazing how quickly technology changes: when Week in Tech first wrote about DVDs the hardware cost thousands; now, DVD has been superseded by Blu-Ray and you can get a decent player for as little as £65. Our round-up of the best Blu-Ray players will help you find the right kit for under the TV - but chances are it's the last disc-based movie or music player you'll ever buy. We've mentioned the death of the disc before , and the nails in its coffin keep on coming[......]
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FTC to Facebook: sort yourself out! It's been an interesting week for privacy. An enormous media company stands accused of bad behaviour, gross invasions of privacy and - let's be generous here - less than perfect explanations of what it's been up to[......]
Martin Scorsese has admitted that he would consider shooting all of his future films in 3D, following his experience directing Hugo. [......]
The PC in 25 years The best way to predict what the future holds, they say, is to look to the past, but such a philosophy isn't necessarily the best option when it comes to computers. It's a useful way of extrapolating the numbers to see how fast the processors of the future may be; that's one reason Moore's Law continues to work. We can even use it to predict how much RAM future machines will have access to and how big hard drives are going to get, but given that the biggest changes to computers come in the way we use them, any predictions of the future would be better left to futurologists, industry wishlists and brief glimpses of roadmaps. [......]
Bargain hunters beware – what may seem like a harmless email from iTunes randomly offering you credit could in fact be delivering a nasty strain of malware. [......]
T3 is offering up a Black Friday deal that sees the price fall to £27.49 - and include not only the iPad edition free but also a Griffin iPad A-Frame. "Subscribe today for only £27.49 and save a massive 50% on the cover price !" explained T3 "Plus as a subscriber you will get the T3 iPad Edition FREE. And to round off this extra special limited offer we are throwing in a free Griffin iPad A-Frame to the first 100 subscribers! "This multi-position stand will lovingly hold your iPad upright, in either portrait or landscape view — perfect for watching video or viewing pictures. [......]
The FA is closer than ever to implementing goal-line technology in the Premier League and could have the technology in place by the start of the 2012-13 season. [......]
Good news for fans of common sense: the European Court of Justice has ruled that ISPs can't be forced to implement widespread, indiscriminate monitoring and filtering of their users' traffic. Belgian music company SABAM wanted ISPs to monitor all P2P traffic for copyright infringement and block anything potentially illegal; the Court has essentially told them to get bent. The verdict is hugely important, because it undercuts the key claim of the content industries: that they have a divine right to be protected from naughty people on the internet at all costs. [......]
'Tis the season for stuffing your face and dodgy panto, so it seems apt that we've teamed up with the Pantomime-Dame-named Twonky to give you the chance to win an iPad 2 Wi-Fi 16GB, Apple TV and a host of the company's finest software. It's all to celebrate the launch of the Twonky Video and Twonky Beam Browser, which lets you share and beam video, music and photos from any mobile device to any web-enabled TV. [......]
Having tackled Zuckerberg and the Winkelvoss twins , The Social Network script writer Aaron Sorkin has been offered tech-land's most sought after scripting gig: writing the Steve Jobs movie. Sony, which bought the rights to Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography for a rumoured $1 million, has offered the Sorkin the job and he's having a good old think about it. Good job Sorkin told E! Online, "Sony has asked me to write the movie and it's something I'm strongly considering, "Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages[......]
CES 2012: Home Entertainment The world's greatest tech show is just over a month away – CES 2012 takes place in the second week of January (if you're a show obsessive, note that's a week later than usual). Running from 9 - 13 January, the show will see the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas[......]
Researchers at the University of Washington and Aalto University in Finland have created a new type of contact lens which can contain electronic displays. [......]
Good news ladies. Bang & Olufsen has you in mind for its latest "innovative product concepts", promising that they will "very much appeal to female consumers". We don't know about you, but we're excited[......]
Change! It's everywhere! It's in the streets! It's in the air! It's in Asda! Not the most obvious source of tech wisdom, we know, but things are afoot in your local supermarket: according to Asda, Blu-Ray has reached the tipping point where it's finally outselling DVD. Or at least, it will until the government closes the VAT loophole that means UK retailers are competing with cheapo imports and the prices go up. It's a victory, certainly, but we think that Blu-ray is beginning to resemble those puzzled soldiers found in jungles years after wars end: it's triumphed just as the optical disc starts to die[......]
