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FANS of high-definition entertainment have embraced Blu-ray Disc technology, with many looking enviously at the vast amount of space available on those discs.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc plans to use chips from Intel Corp for the creation of 3-D movies, the companies said on Tuesday.

Taiwanese electronics maker Giga-byte technology has teamed up with mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch the M528 mobile Internet device in August, a Giga-byte representative said.

From giant cellphones to old motherboards, outdated technology holds sentimental value for collectors like Jason Savitt. Another collector, James Houston, rigged dot matrix printers to play a song by Radiohead.

Germany engineering and technology giant eliminating almost 17,000 jobs as part of initiative to cut nearly $2-billion in costs

schliz writes 'Pioneer has developed a 16-layer read-only optical disc which it claims can store 400GB of data. The per-layer capacity is 25GB, the same as that of a Blu-ray Disc, and the multilayer technology will also be applicable to multilayer recordable discs.' of this story at Slashdot.

Hugh Pickens writes 'As companies collect, use, and disseminate data regarding online users, there is concern that tracking individuals' Internet activity and gathering information from online users violates their expectations of privacy. The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to look at the policy issues, and the hottest topic will be proposed systems by which ISPs can watch users and sell information about their surfing habits to advertising companies. The Center for Democracy and technology has issued a report suggesting that these systems may violate federal law (PDF). 'Advertising per se is not the evil here,' says Leslie Harris from CDT. 'It's the collection of individuals' information, usually without their knowledge, always without their consent, creation of profiles and the complete inability of people to make choices about that.' On the other side NebuAd, the most active ad-targeting company, says its profiles are interest-based, and not personally identi

DreamWorks Animation is teaming up with Intel to build a new kind of 3-D moviemaking technology. The two companies have formed a strategic alliance in which Intel will provide both hardware and software for the Hollywood giant. The move marks the end of DreamWorks' three-year deal with AMD and will result in all new systems for the studio's computers. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

(Reuters) - Animated-movie studio DreamWorks Animation SKG has chosen chipmaker Intel Corp over previous supplier Advanced Micro Devices to supply chips and other technology for its big computer-animation operations, The Wall Street Journal said.