Starting this week, you’ll find any newly-minted DVDs and Blu-ray discs will now include a similarly fresh anti-piracy message. Homeland Security’s special agent badge now partners up with the FBI’s own emblem on the new warning played before DVDs — and it looks like it’ll still be unskippable. If this dynamic duo isn’t enough to scare into legitimate media consumption, how about another warning screen to really bring it on home?
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New DVD anti-piracy warning now packs double the nag
Motorola is pushing out an update for the MOTOACTV that’ll improve the dinky machine’s calibration with heart rate monitors and improved media selection. Golfers who plumped for the tailored edition of the unit will find links-friendly features like better score tallies and longer-distance club suggestions. 
Want a 2.1GHz Ivy Bridge Core i7 in your next media laptop? Mmm, yes please. And a 1080p LED backlit display to devour movies on? 
Details remain decidedly light on this one, but it looks like 
HTML5 is supposed to set the web free. Free to deliver and shape online media in any web browser. However, several of the standard’s greatest champions want to be able to restrict the use of and tags through encrypted media extensions. 
We’d heard it was coming, and for the second year in a row, Apple has disrupted the natural flow of CES by announcing an event of its own . 
2011′s come and gone, but Nielsen’s media report on the year remains. 
If you’re jonesing to get your photos and movies from your smartphone back to the home computer without futzing around with cables, the folks at SugarSync have a new spoonful of sweetness for Android and iOS devices — and with its free price, it should be easy to swallow. In the latest version, the company has applied its AutoSync technology to videos, which means that all media files can now be synced to the cloud and pushed to linked computers without user intervention. As this could involve a significant amount of data, AutoSync Videos works only over WiFi, and users may select from three compression qualities based on their desire for picture quality or upload speed
Think you’re having a good day? Try being Tim Morse, who was just relieved of the seemingly impossible task known as “being the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo.” After years of turmoil and bouts of bickering with Alibaba, Yahoo has just appointed Scott Thompson as its new CEO — marking the introduction of a new year with the introduction of a new head honcho
