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Studios are not casual about losing control of films that can cost $50 million to $60 million to produce, says Rich Taylor, a Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) spokesman. If media companies are going to retain control of their products, now is the time to lay the plans, says a story at IDG.net.

Aiming to create a de facto standard in the harshly competitive memory card market, EE Times is reporting that backers of the SmartMedia card have opened its interface specification and made it available free of charge.

Reuters is reporting, America Online outlined specifics of how it plans to structure agreements with content providers for its interactive television platform in a letter made available Thursday to federal regulators who are considering AOL’s merger with Time Warner.

Akamai, which speeds content delivery on the Internet by maintaining a network of computers closer to consumers, is receiving daily gripes from people who think–mistakenly–that the company is scanning their ports, or sending packets designed to get information about their
computers, reports CNET News.

ZDNet News UK reports, nanotechnology could provide computer chips thousands of times quicker than today’s fastest processors according to researchers at Molecular Electronics, a US firm dedicated to researching and
developing atom-sized computer components.

According to ZDNet News UK, security firm Network Associates has promised a fix for versions 5.5.x to 6.5.3 of its PGP (Pretty Good Protection) encryption software.

The EE Times is reporting that the two companies, both based in Santa Clara, Calif., said they expect the merger will speed their development of MPEG-4 devices.

Leading an expected avalanche of new systems, Dell Computer next week will unveil a workstation based on Intel’s new 1-GHz Pentium III Xeon processor, reports CNET News.

Federal regulators said today they would delay a hotly anticipated auction for wireless “spectrum,” in part to allow more companies a chance to bid, reports CNET News.

More and more content sites are trying it, but the results so far have been mixed, prompting The Standard to ask, is content king again?