Sony releases 50GB Blu-ray movies

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the imminent arrival of its first three 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray movies, vnunet.com reports.

First to hit the shelves will be the comedy Click, on 10 October, followed by Black Hawk Down, on 14 November and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, on 12 December, the report says.

All three titles were authored by the Sony Pictures Digital Authoring Center and manufactured by Sony.

Blinkx will unveil a new version of its video search Web site that offers a more TV-like experience, with "channels" of popular content and the ability to select search results from a wall of video thumbnails that shows previews, reports ZDNet.

The updated Blinkx site has added channels on the right side of the screen that automatically generate lists of top stories in different categories, such as news, entertainment and sports.

Previews of the listed items are automatically played on the left side.

Britons fear Net crime more than they do burglary, a BBC survey suggests.

The Get Safe Online study released by the government found 21% of respondents felt most at risk from Net crime, while 16% worried most about being burgled, the report says.

The government`s study also found fears of online crime ran so deep some people were being put off using the Internet altogether.

The anti-spam group Spamhaus Project has said 50 billion junk mails per day will be unleashed on computer users worldwide, should the group lose its domain name, spamhaus.org, reports BusinessWeek Online.

The UK-based Spamhaus Project expects a federal judge in Chicago will soon sign an order that would suspend the domain spamhaus.org because it has refused to recognise the US court and comply with an $11.7 million judgment.

Spamhouse warned the order could unleash up to 50 billion junk e-mails on computer users worldwide.