The trader had pleaded guilty to six counts of infringing the Trademarks Act 1994, two counts of infringing the Copyright, Patents and Designs Act 1988 and two counts of infringing the Video Recordings Act 1984. A further 1,947 offences were also taken into consideration.
RESEARCHERS HAVE turned conventional DVDs into portable and cheap diagnostic tools for developing countries, and are now adapting their prototype into a workable medical device. A team led by Aman Russom of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has demonstrated proof-of-concept for the tool by testing for HIV.
Domino’s is no stranger to odd and bizarre marketing stunts. It’s latest – a DVD that smells like a pizza – may be one of its strangest (and most brilliant) yet.
Horror movies are about to haunt a lot closer to home. As close as your mobile device.
Tom Hooper’s quasi-operatic mega-musical is loaded with major historical events, weighty themes, tragic deaths and symbolic rebirths, so it’s no wonder that the film version of Les Mis gets so exhausting, especially in the static, unspectacular second half. Â Â Â Â
Dustin Hoffman’s corny directorial debut is more suited to TV than film, but it does benefit from the poignant performances of Tom Courtenay and the peerless Maggie Smith.    Â
Debutant Suraj Sharma equips himself well as earnest teenager Pi in Ang Lee’s sensational-looking adaptation of Yann Martel’s spiritual heartbreaker.    Â
“I know too much about life to have any optimism,†is a typically bleak quip from struggling stand-up Louis CK, describing new relationships.    Â