"The creative team are dedicated to ensuring the Halo movie becomes a reality" says Bungie

Even though Fox and Universal recently pulled out of the Halo movie as recently reported, Bungie says it will happen.

The studios were due to fund and distribute the Halo film, but pulled out after Peter Jackson and co refused the studios' demands to have their deals improved.

In an official statement via its official website, Bungie said: "We are disappointed that Universal and Fox wanted to significantly renegotiate the financial points of the deal. But the Halo franchise is hugely popular and our goal remains the same - to find a partner that shares our passion and will creatively collaborate with us to best represent the story and spirit of the Halo franchise."

Source: Computerandvideogames  

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Sony has confirmed that it will stop imports of the PlayStation 3 into Europe ahead of its promised release in March.

Last week Pocket-lint reported that Sony had won a lawsuit to stop Asian exporter Lik-Sang from shipping the PSPs into the UK. At that time it wasn't clear if the ruling would effect the PS3; however, now it seems that the case against Lik-Sang has set a precedent.

Sony told the BBC, “The law is clear, and grey importing PS2, PSP, or PS3 into the EU without the express permission of SCEE is illegal. Therefore, we'll utilise the full scope of the law to put a stop to any retailers who choose to do this.”

Sony's position is that it's just trying to protect the consumer from buying hardware that doesn't play older European software for PlayStation and PS2, and won't play European Blu-ray movies or DVDs.

Source: PocketLint

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Three hardware manufacturers will embed file-sharing software BitTorrent into their consumer products.

Asus, Planex and QNap will include BitTorrent's peer-to-peer technology in products such as wireless routers, media servers and network storage devices, BitTorrent said in a statement Monday. Two of the devices made by Asus can be configured to download digital files via BitTorrent without the use of a PC.

"These are the places where people will store their media in the future," said Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's co-founder. "People don't want files to clutter their home PCs. Our technology working with these devices allows an entire family to share a jukebox."

Source: ZDNET 

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Antivirus software maker McAfee, perhaps Redmond's most vocal critic over the issue, said it remains concerned that Microsoft is waiting far too long to disclose the information McAfee needs to protect customers who will use the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

McAfee blasted Microsoft last week, charging the company with making "hollow promises" and claiming that Redmond has "locked out" competitors from the Vista kernel, the most basic component of the operating system.

 Source: TopTechNews

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Biologists would like people to stop talking about "therapeutic cloning" because it gives too many the heebie-jeebies.

Instead, a group of biologists would like to refer to the process as "somatic nuclear cell transfer", New Scientist reports. This would distinguish the process of cloning embryos for harvesting stem cells from other kinds of cloning, such as reproductive cloning.

But the nomenclature just seems to have confused people.

Researchers at the Genetics and Public Policy Centre in Washington surveyed 2,000 people, seeking their views on deriving stem cells from cloned embryos. They asked 1,000 whether or not they approved of using cloned embryos and 1,000 about their feelings towards somatic nuclear cell transfer (SNCT).

 Source:  TheRegister

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British professor's theory has become a reality as US scientists develop a vanishing act

And reality began to disappear.

But the principle established by Sir John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College, London, has been proved to work and in the next five years there are hopes that total invisibility may become possible for larger objects. Tanks, for example.

Source: TimesOnline 

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The computer maker has launched two systems: the four-processor PowerEdge 6950, for higher-end tasks such as housing databases, and the two-processor PowerEdge SC1435, for high-performance computing clusters or hosting Web sites. The 6950 will be sold alongside its Intel-based equivalent, the 6850, but the SC1435 replaces the Intel-based SC1425, said Jay Parker, Dell's director of worldwide marketing for PowerEdge servers.

Source: CNET

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AFTER Apple Computer Inc.'s admission that some of its popular iPod Video
products were inadvertently shipped with a virus that affects Windows systems, Microsoft said the virus does not exploit Windows' vulnerabilities and could be remedied.

Apple announced on its support website (http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/) that some of its iPod Video products contained the virus, and that "we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."

"A small number -- less than 1 percent -- of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus," a statement at the Apple website read. "So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus-free."

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Mozilla Corp. will launch the final of its Firefox 2.0 browser Tuesday, Oct. 24, the company said Monday.

The long-tested Firefox 2.0 -- which updated to Release Candidate 3 (RC3) -- last Tuesday, arrives hard on the heels of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. IE7 went final on Wednesday.

Firefox 2.0 features anti-phishing alerts, session restore, spell checking, suggested searches, and several other enhancement and additions to version 1.5, the last major update to the open-source browser. According to the most recent statistics from Web metric firm Net Applications of the surfing market in September.

 "2.0 has about a dozen major improvements across the board," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's director of engineering. "Our goal is always to get you to the important part, the content in the middle of the frame, as quickly as possible."

Firefox 2.0, said Schroepfer, runs fine as is on Windows Vista, but the development team will "add more Vista-specific features to the browser" in 2007.

Users who have already downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0 RC3 will not need to re-download the browser, added Schroepfer, because the RC3 code is identical to what Mozilla is dubbing the final.

Source:   Information Week

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