COLOUR electronic paper from Fujitsu should be on the market in 18 months, it announced last week at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Digital Media Centre of Excellence in Melbourne.

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand chief executive Rod Vawdrey said the next major wave in technology would be the proliferation of digital media.

“If you stretch your mind far enough you can get to the theory that in the future the newspapers will have moving pictures, and electronic paper certainly has the potential to enable that,” he said.

Mr Vawdrey said Fujitsu had some prototypes of its electronic paper, which would become commercially available in 2007.

Pilot projects would be conducted and then it would come out “in various forms, maybe A4 signage or large poster-wall or even wall displays”.

The price would eventually fall so it could replace “practically any form of signage or paper-based documents, even potentially shelf labels”, he said.

The new centre displays emerging digital media systems, from digital kiosks and dynamic point-of-sale displays to transport information systems and corporate communications systems.
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HOLLYWOOD studio Warner Brothers said it plans to put thousands of episodes of old television classics online for free under a groundbreaking deal with America Online.

The two companies, part of the Time Warner group, said they would team up to launch a new broadband network in January called In2TV, allowing users to stream thousands of old episodes for free on AOL.com.

Billing the new service as the “world’s first internet-based TV archive,” they said In2TV would blaze a trail for TV over broadband, which is now available in more than half of all US households.

Along with Lynda Carter’s star-spangled corset-wearing “Wonder Woman” from the 1970s, other blasts from the past on In2TV will include “Falcon Crest”, “La Femme Nikita”, “Lois and Clark,” “Growing Pains” and John Travolta’s TV debut, “Welcome Back Kotter”.

In its first year the service will offer around 3,400 hours of programming from 4,800 episodes - or 300 episodes a month - taken from some 100 series of popular Warner Bros shows from the past, AOL spokeswoman Ruth Sarfaty AFP.

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Source: AustralianIT

Facing further pressure from unhappy consumers and now artists who are upset that their music has been tarnished by the invasive copy-protection added to certain CDs, Sony BMG now says it will pull the albums off store shelves entirely. The record label is also offering to exchange the CDs for non-DRM versions.

The news follows an announcement last week in which Sony said it would suspend the manufacture of CDs with the software rootkit, known as XCP. “Sony BMG deeply regrets any inconvenience to our customers and remains committed to providing an enjoyable and safe music experience,” the company said in a follow-up statement.

Source: BetaNews

Daemon Tools is an application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running backup copies of SafeDisc, Securom, or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD. It works with all types of CD/DVDROM drives and supports nearly any CD protection.

Changes:
- complete redesign from scratch
- support of 4 virtual drives
- ONLY X32-supported now. X64 will follow
- Drivername randomly generated on each machine (not finished yet)
- Drive-vendor and versionnumber randomly generated
- Complete new emulation architecture
- DCP (DaemonCodeProtect) to make analyses harder and increase development time for malicious anti-DT tools
- Digital signature verification of applications who are trusted to access DT in secure mode
- AutoInsertNotification fully implemented (can be turned on/off at ControlPanel)
- Dropped: MS-Installer, DT now use modificated NullsoftInstaller
- Dropped: analog sound support (as Windows 2000 and above do not need this feature)
- supports all popular copyprotections

Download: Daemon Tools 4.0
View: Daemon Tools Homepage
Source: MSFN

Robert Petrick searched for the words “neck,” “snap,” “break” and “hold” on an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors Wednesday.

More than two years after Janine Sutphen’s body was discovered floating in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers seized from Robert Petrick’s home that prosecutors say support their arguments that Petrick killed his wife.

The Google search was the latest in recently discovered evidence found on nearly a dozen computers seized from Petrick’s home.

Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003.

Two of Sutphen’s sons also testified Wednesday that they suspected their stepfather in their mother’s death.

“I had to follow my gut and I did not feel safe or trust this man,” said Robin Sutphen.

He told jurors that when he had not heard from his mother over a two-week period, he called Petrick and threatened to come to North Carolina to find out what was wrong.
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This will be the new AusTech website.

Since the IPB registration expired, and I don’t have enough money to renew it, I have changed to a different CMS, there will be no more forums, just news / comments.

I hope you guys enjoy the change, as will I.

Thanks for your support.

- Juzman