Upon the publication of his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler was hailed as one of the leading practitioners of the American hard-boiled detective novel, but he received virtually no recognition as a writer of serious literature. During...

In the late 1940s well-known British author and critic Evelyn Waugh hailed Raymond Chandler as America's "greatest living writer." Poet W. H. Auden stated that Chandler's mystery novels "should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works o...

As more and more tech toys evolve to include music-playing capabilities, gadget lovers face an increasingly common problem: How can you amplify them all without buying five different speaker docks?Lately, this has been a problem for me, so when I first spotted iLuv's i199 multimedia...

The group behind security measures for next-generation DVDs said Monday it has fixed a leak that allowed hackers to discover the keys for unlocking movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.Makers of software for playing the discs on computers will offer patches containing new keys...

Q. How do I buy online movies and what can I do with them?A. The corner video store and mail-order subscriptions aren't the only ways to rent movies.Several services distribute movies digitally over the Internet _ the same way Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes and other...

Hollywood studios have approved a new technology and licensing arrangement that should remove a major obstacle consumers now face with burning movies they buy digitally over the Internet onto a DVD that will play everywhere.Sonic Solutions Inc. is introducing on Thursday the Qflix system for...