Reuters - The battle between two hyped formats for high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them off the whole technology, a London-based research firm predicted on Friday.

The DVD Copy Control Association plans to relax some of the restrictions on copying DVDs. In the past, consumers would have to view a movie downloaded off the Internet on a PC.

Apple Computer has released an update to its new Mac Pro and Mac OS X Server; v10.4.7. The security update will improve ImageIO and OpenSSH, and is recommended for all Mac Pro systems running Mac OS X v10.4.7 (build 8K1079), and systems running Mac OS X Server v10.4.7 (Universal)....

French scientists are attempting to create a non-hijackable plane as a "last barrier to attacks" during flight. The plane's features include a computer that can pinpoint suspicious passenger behavior, and a collision avoidance system that will correct the plane's trajectory to prevent it from...

AP - Since BetOnSports PLC started accepting wagers online, gamblers played the odds on plenty of sporting events. But they also gambled on whether U.S. prosecutors would one day target the Costa Rica-based company for possibly violating federal law.

A French businessman creates a plastic Wi-Fi bunny that has TV antennae for ears which can send out e-mails and mobile phone text messages. The 9 inch-tall bunny can also tell children to go to bed, warn users about a stock collapse, and give traffic reports by receiving Internet feeds through a...

InfoWorld - Lattix is extending its software architecture management product, which examines architectural dependencies, to .Net projects.

The six-member crew of Atlantis on Thursday boarded the shuttle to complete their last major training session, with a practice launch countdown at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-hour dress rehearsal wrapped up a three-day session that included briefings on safety and emergency evacuation...

Reuters - On Thursday, British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up aircraft mid-flight between Britain and the United States in what Washington said might have been an attempted al Qaeda operation.

PC Magazine - Eastman Kodak Company announced that it has forged an agreement with Flextronics International Ltd., in which Flextronics will take over the manufacturing and distribution of Kodak's consumer digital cameras.

Investor's Business Daily - IBM elevated its rivalry with EMC Thursday, when it said it would buy FileNet for $1.6 billion in cash, a purchase that would leapfrog IBM over EMC in the market for software used to manage content.

The sale of modified versions of Xbox 360 have reportedly taken off since the release of firmware modifications for the console, allowing booting of backup copies of games. Microsoft said it is confident that the DVD-ROM firmware hacks will be sufficiently countered by Xbox Live updates and does...

AdWeek.com - The videos were typical YouTube fare: a handheld digital camera, bad lighting and a goofy subject matter. They featured "Dave B.," a bored office worker, doing seemingly amazing tricks with a rolled up wad of paper as a soccer ball. Thanks to his "fingerskilz," chronicled on a blog (www.fingerskilz.tv) and seeded on video-sharing sites, Dave B. attracted more than 230,000 viewers.

AFP - BetOnSports, an Internet gaming website that attracts billions of dollars in bets a year, told its 2,000 employees at its main operations center in Costa Rica that it was shutting down the hub from Friday, a company official told AFP.

It may look like almost any other shopping cart, but Gregory Garcia's robotic invention, known as B.O.S.S. for Battery Operated Smart Servant, is not your average cart. Sensors allow it to follow the shopper around the supermarket and slow down when needed so items can be placed in it, and it...

Reuters - Makers of security equipment are the most likely to benefit from the heightened alert at airports after British police foiled a plot to blow up planes flying between Britain and the United States.

Reuters - Sprint Nextel Corp. said an outage of its cellphone service in parts of the New York borough of Queens on Thursday was caused by water damage to network equipment due to a burst pipe.

Thousands of vacationers in the Mediterranean have been stung by jellyfish as huge swarms of the creatures invade coastal waters, with researchers saying at least 30,000 people have been stung since summer began. Marine biologists blame hot dry weather for bringing jellyfish closer to the shore,...

AP - Warner Music International has licensed songs from its catalog of music by Madonna, Green Day and other artists to Russian mobile carrier VimpelCom Group, the companies said Thursday.

On-line technology publication Wired News has pulled three articles by a freelance writer off its Web site over suspicions about the authenticity of a source used in the articles. The publication on its Web site said that the writer faked the quotes and citations of the source mentioned and an...