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News Offerings will include ABC television's Lost and Desperate Housewives and the Disney Channel's That's So Raven. Disney chief executive officer Robert Iger took the stage with Jobs to introduce the sales... [13 Oct 2005]
Virus alert: Windows 2000 worms begin to bite
News Walt Disney's ABC News and Time Warner's CNN confirmed in postings to their websites that their computers had been hit. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at television network ABC, cable... [17 Aug 2005]
Podcasting set to skyrocket?
News ABC News, ESPN Disney, National Public Radio and NBC News have all introduced podcast programming in recent months. The number of people who download free serial audio programmes, or podcasts, is set to explode over the... [07 Jul 2005]
Mickey Mouse IT job lures top General Motors tech exec
News One of General Motors' (GM) top IT executives is switching to take the top IT job at the Walt Disney Company, in what certainly can't be described as a Mickey Mouse role. Tony Scott, long-serving CTO at GM, will take... [01 Feb 2005]
Napster looking to enter movie downloads
News MovieLink is backed by major cinemas, including MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers Studios, while CinemaNow has big name partners including Disney and... [24 Jan 2005]
Firefox heads for five per cent share
News The study measured market share by embedding sensors on major websites such as those of the Walt Disney Internet Group, Best Buy, Sony and Liz Claiborne. The popularity of alternative web browser Firefox continues to... [24 Jan 2005]
Music, games, porn - Vodafone launches 3G
News But despite the array of data content on offer, from Disney to porn, voice minutes are still high on the agenda. Vodafone has confirmed it's the first of the big four mobile operators to launch a 3G service, with the... [10 Nov 2004]
Sex.com CEO joins in patent dispute
News The company has reached agreements with more than 177 companies, including large ones such as Walt Disney. Adult websites involved in a patent dispute with Acacia Research have received a boost from the owner of Sex.com,... [21 Oct 2004]
Disney launches Mickey Mouse PC
News Banking on the huge popularity that Mickey Mouse enjoys with children worldwide, Walt Disney has unveiled a desktop PC with a monitor sporting the ears of the cartoon character. The desktop, named the... [06 Aug 2004]
iTunes finally arrives in the UK
News Those without enthusiasm for the Top 40 are also catered for, with a choice of 5,000 audio books and 12,000 classical numbers and, for the young at heart, exclusive Disney and Pixar soundtracks. Prefaced by honky-tonk... [15 Jun 2004]
Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
News John Zuccarini, 56, had registered misspelled versions of Disney trademarks, as well as Harry Potter, boy band the Backstreet Boys and popular US lingerie store Victoria's Secret, to fool web users into visiting sites... [01 Mar 2004]
Microsoft signs Mickey Mouse
News Microsoft and the Walt Disney empire will today announce that they have struck a deal to develop digital content and delivery systems. Disney is taking on a non-exclusive licence to use Microsoft's... [09 Feb 2004]
Actor Freeman backs same-time film releases on net
News During his speech, executives from Disney, Sony Entertainment and other companies pledged via videotaped statements to cooperate with Intel and others in coming up with better standards for transferring entertainment... [09 Jan 2004]
HP and Disney extend technology deal
News Hewlett Packard, which inherited a strategic partnership with the Walt Disney company from the Compaq merger in 2002, is set to announce a 10-year extension to the business and technology pact today. HP CEO Carly Fiorina... [09 Oct 2003]
Online films uploaded by movie industry: research
News In a bid to stop people from illegally taping Disney's latest cartoon, the aquatic adventure Finding Nemo, in the US, security guards are using night-vision goggles and metal detectors to look for patrons with digital... [17 Sep 2003]
