Samsung camera phone on the way

Samsung has unveiled the SPH-S2300 3.2 megapixel digital camera phone with a 3x optical linear zoom.

The phone also features a 4x digital zoom and supports an image size of up to 2 048x1 536. White balance can be used automatically or manually, and a manual setting allows users to alter settings to accommodate weather and lighting.

It offers camcorder functions that enable users to record images for more than two hours. With the TV-out function, the phone can be connected to a television to view video and images.

Samsung plans to start selling the S2300 in the Korean market this month.

A group of media and technology companies, including Microsoft and Walt Disney, has agreed in principle to allow consumers to make legal backup copies of DVDs and share their content on portable devices, reports Reuters.

Current DVDs are protected by the content scrambling system that prevents copying.

The yet-to-be-developed content protection technology has been named the Advanced Access Content System and will be available to be licensed later this year.

Britain`s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has added the Apple iPod digital music player to its list of hi-tech security risks, reports Reuters.

The device, which can store thousands of songs, is one of a series of banned gadgets that the military will no longer allow into most sections of its headquarters in the UK and abroad.

The fear is that the gadgets can be used to siphon information from a computer, turning a seemingly innocuous device into a handy tool for data thieves.

However, according to the BBC, the UK military has denied reports that it has banned the iPod.

A MOD spokesman told BBC News Online there was no outright ban on the device.

"Certainly it is not the case that the MOD has banned these," he said. "We have a flexible management approach in regards to iPods and similar devices that can move data from official systems."