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REGIONAL pay-TV group Austar's newest board member has outlined how the company plans to use new technologies to position itself as the content hub in regional homes.

Sky Player for Xbox 360 revealed today At 11:30am today, Microsoft announced that in collaboration with Sky they will be bringing Sky Player to Xbox 360 this coming autumn. We were in attendance where Sky Sports presenter Georgina Thompson kicked off the proceedings by making the initial announcement at St. Martin's Hotel in London. Confirmation that the service will be made available to Xbox 360 owners follows rumours and speculations about an impending deal between the two companies, which we reported on yesterday. The Sky Player will be accessed from the 360s NXE dashboard and will feature On Demand content that can be streamed via any broadband connection. The service will also make use of NXE avatars. Live sports, news and other shows can also be viewed via the 360 Sky Player with the ability to pause, rewind and fast forward the broadcast at any time. Pricing and specific details will be unveiled closer to the launch this autumn alongside details of the available packages an

Former CEO and CFO of wireless company allegedly reaped millions from illegal share sales.

In brief: A new set of iWeb themes have been released by iPresentee. The five themes are designed for creating business websites and each includes 11 templates instead of the usual 8. Core Cases is currently running a sale on all of its products, offering everything at a price of $10 or less. The company offers protective cases for all of Apple's latest handhelds, along with models for several old...

Techdirt has an amusing story about the expanding adoption of the RIAA-style business model of collecting settlement money from threats of litigation based on copyright infringement claims. This story comes with an amusing twist with the two cited companies, Davenport Lyons and ACS, being clearly related and ACS publishing an article with clearly plagiarized selections. Anything to make a buck I guess. 'TorrentFreak noticed that an article apparently published by ACS Law was actually plagiarized from a variety of different sources, basically cut and pasted together with no credit or citations given at all. Remarkably, in some cases, articles with the exact opposite view of ACS Law were copied with paragraphs that just had an added sentence to the end which completely contradicted what the original article said.' of this story at Slashdot.

BSkyB has teamed up with Microsoft to give British video gamers the option of watching its channels, including live Premier League football, through their Xbox 360 games consoles without the need for a satellite dish.Using the Xbox's internet connection, the service will also include on-demand movies and other content to help Sky meet its target of 10 million customers by 2010. To be launched in the autumn, the service will also let viewers see what Sky Sports events their friends are watching and sit down with them in a virtual television suite while they watch the game.It is the first time that Microsoft has pushed live television through its Xbox 360 console, which has sold more than 30m worldwide, and the company is expected to sign up broadcast partners in other countries. It will showcase live TV over the Xbox at E3, the world's largest computer games show, which kicks off in los angeles next week.The deal is not exclusive, however, and Microsoft has already been workin

With DirectX Zero-day attacks in the wild, the company cautions users to be careful of rogue QuickTime files.

British industry is headed for the biggest shakeup since the Industrial Revolution, with the country set to be a pioneer in video games, superfoods and robotics, according to a new study.With dark Satanic mills long gone, the HSBC Future of Business report predicts that five 'supercities' - Brighton, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Newcastle - will emerge as knowledge industries gain traction instead of natural resource-based businesses. The Britain mapped out by the researchers foresees factories, power stations and livestock supplanted by centres for gaming, windfarms and robotics as the economic landscape is redrawn around the 'tropics of knowledge and next generation industries'. The findings are based on interviews with 500 entrepreneurs and company directors.'Our panel predicted the rise of supercities and regions over the next 20 years,' said Martin Raymond from the Future Laboratory, one of the report's authors. 'They promise to change the traditional national and regional power

BSkyB has teamed up with Microsoft to give British video gamers the option of watching its channels, including live Premier League football, through their Xbox 360 games consoles without the need for a satellite dish.Using the Xbox's internet connection, the service will also include on-demand movies and other content to help Sky meet its target of 10 million customers by 2010. To be launched in the autumn, the service will also let viewers see what Sky Sports events their friends are watching and sit down with them in a virtual television suite while they watch the game.It is the first time that Microsoft has pushed live television through its Xbox 360 console, which has sold more than 30m worldwide, and the company is expected to sign up broadcast partners in other countries. It will showcase live TV over the Xbox at E3, the world's largest computer games show, which kicks off in los angeles next week.The deal is not exclusive, however, and Microsoft has already been workin

The latest government unemployment statistics show a slowdown in the rate of first-time unemployment claims, suggesting that companies are laying off fewer workers. According to the Department of Labor, 623,000 Americans filed initial unemployment claims last week, down 13,000 from the previous...