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  • 15 May 2007

  • News: AOL buys mobile advertising firm

    AOL has acquired Third Screen Media to strengthen its position in mobile advertising, a small component of online advertising expected to shoot up in coming years and become a multibillion dollar market.

  • News: Unlimited Yahoo Mail goes live

    Yahoo Mail has started offering unlimited email storage, fulfilling the promise Yahoo made in March.

  • News: UK losing battle on software piracy

    The Business Software Alliance (BSA) says the penalties for software piracy are not sufficient, after reporting that 27 percent of PC software installed in the UK in 2006 was illegal.

  • Opinion: Bare-chested plonker is global email star

    Next time you're about to hit 'send' on an email message, stop and think. Clapham-based gym trainer and self-styled 'life coach' Peter Sullivan certainly will. He's become the toast of bored office workers throughout the world after an email he sent in the hopes of soliciting a date went badly awry.

  • Opinion: Military threat of YouTube & MySpace

    Are YouTube and MySpace a security risk? According to the US Defense Department if you are in the US military and accessing them from military-run network they are. The Defense Department is now blocking access to YouTube, MySpace, and nearly a dozen other websites from computers on its network calling them a "significant operational security challenge”.

  • News: Adobe to add Vista & Office printer support

    Adobe will release a new print driver in July that enables users of mainstream applications such as Microsoft's Office on Windows Vista to output to PostScript printers at a higher-quality than they can currently, according to the company.

  • Opinion: Prince William gets on Facebook

    I'm not sure how he can fit in such a dangerously addictive passtime to his bulging schedule, but bonnie Prince William has a Facebook site.

  • News: 10 things Microsoft loves & hates about open source

    Over the years, Microsoft has had some pretty harsh words (and actions) for the open-source community. We take a look at five ways Microsoft is embracing open source or Linux and five ways it'is doing to battle against those same forces.

  • News: Former Beatle embraces digital music

    Fans of The Beatles continue to wait for the digital release of the band's material, but Paul McCartney's work is finally coming to digital formats.

  • News: OpenOffice slams 'desperate' Microsoft claims

    OpenOffice.org has dismissed Microsoft's assertion that its open-source application suite violates 45 of its patents as "a desperate act”.

  • News: Apple's popularity surged in April

    Apple's US website saw traffic jump 42 per cent in April 2007, according to the latest ComScore Media Metrix figures.

  • News: EU & US close to anti-terror data privacy deal

    European Commissioner for justice and home affairs Franco Frattini said he's confident the European Union and the US can reach an agreement on how to handle personal information about European citizens flying to America.

  • News: End is nigh for paid-for iTunes videos

    The iTunes Store's salad days as an outlet for paid video downloads are short, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The company claims that paid video downloads will peak this year, to be replaced by advertising-based systems instead.

  • News: LG Philips shows colour 'e-paper' screen

    LG.Philips LCD has taken the wraps off the world's first A4-sized colour 'e-paper' display, following up on its black and white display of the same size a year ago.

  • News: Wal-Mart takes Skype mainstream

    Wal-Mart Stores shoppers can now buy Skype hardware and pre-paid voice-over-IP calling cards in about half of Wal-Mart's stores in the US.

  • News: Sun licenses chip patents to Arm

    Sun Microsystems has licensed a suite of microprocessor patents to Arm Holdings, the UK firm that licenses its microprocessor core designs for use in embedded and graphics processors, and processors for mobile phones and PDAs.

  • 14 May 2007

  • Opinion: The origins of 'geek', and other tech terms

    In the circus, a performer who sank sufficiently low would do horrible things (like biting the heads off live chickens) for booze money. That poor soul was called a geek. How it came to describe techies is unknown.

  • News: Alcatel-Lucent to buy NetDevices

    Alcatel-Lucent SA has agreed to buy NetDevices, a maker of all-in-one network gateways for branch offices and small and medium-size businesses.

  • Opinion: Star Trek fan shows eBay Enterprise

    Sci-fi überfan Tony Alleyne this week sold his Star Trek-styled one-bedroom bijou flat in Leicestershire on eBay for an astronomical £425,000. Even at London prices that's good (and yes, I do mean London, the small village on the planet Zorg).

  • Opinion: Pirate Bay file-sharing site hacked

    Ahoy me hearties! BitTorrent file-sharing website Pirate Bay has admitted that its database has been sent to Davy Jones' locker, via its blog. Hackers have made off with Pirate Bay's database of around 1.6 million usernames and passwords. (No dubloons or pieces of eight were taken.)

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