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• Social engineering goes to the movies

  By Joan Goodchild | 30 March, 2012 01:05

  If you fall for a social engineer's trickery, it's embarrassing.

• Quickflix to succeed Telstra BigPond DVD rental service

  By Spandas Lui | 04 July, 2011 14:34

  DVD rental subscription company, Quickflix, has entered into an agreement with Telstra to take over from the telco’s soon-to-be canned BigPond Movies DVD rental service.

• Why 3D will fail in 2010

  By Mike Elgan | 22 December, 2009 02:32

  James Cameron's hotly anticipated 3D movie, "Avatar," hits theaters across the U.S. today. Besides stunning computer generated imagery and a predictable-but-appealing storyline, the movie will become well known for high-quality 3D.

• Grab PSP movies from Blu-ray discs

  By Matt Peckham | 01 October, 2009 00:32

  Want to watch Blu-ray flicks on your Sony PlayStation Portable? Okay, you can't watch them natively on the handheld--the system tops out at 480x272 lines of resolution, after all. But according to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America, now you can pull the PSP versions straight from the Blu-ray disc itself.

• Lights, camera, action: the Facebook movie

  By Daniel Ionescu | 25 June, 2009 00:35

  You know you've made it big-time when a movie is made about you. Remember last year when we heard news of the story behind Facebook coming soon to cineplex near you? Today we are hearing that the movie, called The Social Network, is approaching production schedule, set for sometime at the end of this year.

• Movies coming soon to a mobile phone near you

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 June, 2009 04:40

  Offering movies is the latest thing some vendors are trying to lure users as the battle for mobile phone buyers becomes more challenging.

• More Americans Play Video Games than Go to Movies

  By Matt Peckham | 22 May, 2009 02:58

  I thought the revelation that video gamers outnumbered cinema goers was old news, but maybe only partly so. According to a new NPD Group report, 53 percent of U.S. consumers have been to the movies in the last six months, but 63 percent — that's 2 out of 3 consumers — have played a video game. I take it the significance of that derives from cumulative penetration, as opposed to the now redundant "novelty" of the latter surpassing the former.