Tag archive: Cannes

I doubt that there has ever been a director who epitomized the divide between critics and audiences quite as much as Terrence Malick. His films are considered by many critics to be cinematic masterpieces. They are art, and high art at that. His films are designed to challenge you and make you think, while tapping into an emotional reservoir with the heavy use of symbolism. Critics love him. They fawn over him and hurl awards at him like a… Read More

Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is tough to figure out. The creator of some of the world's most disturbing films (see: Audition, Ichi the Killer) has also proven himself capable of telling more light-hearted stories, family-friendly ones even. It is presumably that other side, the one that isn't interested in sticking half-dismembered humans in sacks, that is currently working on an adaptation of an action and violence-free… Read More

William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer, is finally on its way to the big screen, reports Slash Film. Plans for a film adaptation of the visionary 1984 novel, which is best known for its predictions about the Internet, and is even the source of the term “cyberspace,” have been floating around for years. But so far they have been mired by false-starts. This most recent revelation, however, makes it all but… Read More

So. Lars Von Trier made a little bit of a mess of things yesterday. The Danish filmmaker behind Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Antichrist is notorious for making outrageous, headline-grabbing comments. He referred to himself as “the best director in the world” at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival, but he managed to “top” that yesterday when he admitted to being able to sympathize with Adolf Hitler… Read More

The BBC’s very popular flagship video-on-demand service iPlayer now has a new outlet. Apart from watching programson your computer, you can also access them through your Wii – at least, you can if you live in the UK. A basic version using the game console began onWednesday, but it’s been promised that the software will become more sophisticated as things progress. To access it, Wii users will need to access the Internet channel… Read More

Another note to come out of this year's Midemnet music in Cannes, France: while Microsoft hasn't yet announced any official plans to market its Zune music player outside the United States, a Microsoft marketing director has said the devices could hit Europe by the end of 2007. According to Reuters, Microsoft's Jason Reindorp acknowledged Apple's iPod as an “entrenched competitor,” but said the company was… Read More

At the Midemet music conference this weekend in Cannes, France, a new licensing agency named Merlin representing the independent music sphere launched itself, and announced it had forged an agreement with Sean Fanning's Snocap to offer music from independent record labels for sale via MySpace and other popular online destinations. The move would put the social networking site—one of the Internet's most-visited… Read More

“Teen heart-throb MobileTracker reports a couple of interesting, if unsurprising approvals from the FCC: the Nokia N90 cameraphone, and the Sony Ericsson K750i. The N90 [left] is the new flip-phonehybrid that we had a chance to play with a couple weeks back, while the K750i wasfirst shown at Cannes in March. Both phones share two-megapixel cameras, although the N90 is certainly more oriented towards imaging, with its flippy screen and… Read More

The multimedia demonstration can be seen — and heard — for the first time at the CTIA show. PacketVideo's featured demonstration closely follows the landmark announcement made by Nokia and Microsoft less than 30 days ago at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. The two companies announced collaboration on digital media formats, including support for Windows Media Audio and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) on music-oriented Nokia… Read More

The solution, based on the DVB-H standard, contains all the functionality of a complete digital TV receiver in an area the size of a thumbnail. It will enable consumers to connect to live TV, as wellas pictures, movies and music, all on the move. Philips will be demonstrating its DVB-H capabilities at the 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France, 14-17 February on stand A17, Hall 1. Facilitating the development of TV on mobile, Philips will roll… Read More

The collaboration is a result of growing demand for UMA Technology, the standard for fixed-mobile convergence, from network service providers around the world. BenQ's P50 Pocket PC phone is the first product from this collaboration. The P50 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS product with an integrated 802.11b Wi-Fi radio and UMA Client Software from Kineto. The P50 also has an integrated QWERTY keyboard and a complete Microsoft Windows for Pocket… Read More

In a speech at the wireless communications industry's biggest trade show in Cannes, France, Intel Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini intends to spell out the No. 1 chipmaker's plans to drive its ever lower-cost semiconductors into wireless markets. “To think that phones are not subject to the laws of silicon is naive. They are just small computers,” Otellini told Reuters in an interview ahead of his speech at the… Read More

As the battle heats up for online music services, 2004 stands to be a deciding year for the increasingly competitive market. While iTunes continues to carry a strong lead, Chris Gorog, chairman and CEO of Roxio (Napster's parent company) warned music industry representatives to “stay-off the Apple platform” at the recent Midem International Music Fair in Cannes, France, according to the Mail & Guardian. Gorog backed… Read More

This is the first Sony Ericsson 3G phone capable of video conferencing. The phone itself is in the final stages of pre-production testing and has passes the video conferencing beta test stage. It is beleived that the phone will be heading for the Hutchison 3G network but this has not been confirmed. The clamshell Z1010 is designed to give consumers the best possible experience of imaging, messaging and connectivity applications using 3G.… Read More

It will be the first mobile phone to use a chipset by Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker. Intel, like Microsoft, has identified the 450 million units a year mobile phone industry as an opportunity outside the slow-growing PC market. MiTAC, a computer maker expanding into handheld devices, showed the new model 8380 on its Mio Web Site (http:/www.justmio.com). Mio is the brand name MiTAC uses. Intel officials in Europe… Read More