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Now Krikorian is taking his love affair to another level: Amazon.com is currently taking preliminary orders for Krikorian’s new book, TiVo Hacks, a guide to 100 popular ways to score more features. The book, which O’Reilly & Associates plans to release late this summer, provides step-by-step directions on everything from how to add storage space [...]

Linus Torvalds likened the fight to a Jerry Springer episode

Analysts are balking at The SCO Group Inc.’s offer to view its proof that there is illegal Unix code in Linux, with one calling the move a publicity stunt. Meanwhile, Linux creator Linus Torvalds today said that he has no plans to look at the [...]

Visions of the comic strip detective Dick Tracy talking into his wristwatch phone have titillated imaginations for decades. But now, Japanese phone giant NTT DoCoMo is selling the real thing.
The waterproof watch, which sells for $318, proved so popular when it was offered for sale May 7 on the company’s Web site, DoCoMo reported [...]

IgD writes “Pirate’s Den is a DirecTV hacking website based in Canada. The site features a very busy chat forum where ‘hobbyists’ research and discuss ways of hacking satellite TV. The site makes money by selling advertisements and subscriptions to the chat forum. The owner claims all he is engaging in is free speech. He [...]

The story so far: SCO has been making a noise because, it says, Linux — a clone of Unix — infringes its Unix rights. Novell undercut this by claiming that it still owned the rights to Unix, which it got from AT&T, and which SCO (formerly Caldera) said it thought it had bought from Novell. [...]

mokiejovis writes “Program manager Brian Countryman stated that “as part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation.” See the Microsoft TechNet article.” Several of the people submitting this story have come up with elaborate theories about why: killing competition, [...]

After searching high and low for a director to take on their remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Warner Bros is in the process of snapping up Tim Burton to breathe his special brand of magic into the project.
Having been rumoured as attached to the project as far back as 2001, Burton has now [...]

California’s top prosecutor on Thursday argued that an engineer had acted as a thief and not a free speech advocate when he published on the Internet computer code used to decrypt DVDs.
“The program we are talking about is a burglary tool,” Attorney General Bill Lockyer told the California Supreme Court, which is considering whether [...]

As filming of the new Star Wars movie begins, LucasFilm will offer fans the chance to watch the work in progress via Web cam, but at a price
On 5 June, LucasFilm, the makers of the blockbuster outerspace-fantasy film series, will offer a sneak preview of its redesigned Web site and first-ever online subscription service. [...]

Asus is on course to clash with Intel over whether its Springdale-based mobo, the P4P800 offers features provided by Intel’s Canterwood chipset.
Launched in April, Canterwood, aka the i875, offers what Intel calls Performance Enhancement Technology (PAT). Essentially, that means the chipset uses more aggressive memory timings to achieve a 3-5 per cent performance boost. [...]