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  • 24 May 2007

  • Opinion: Sue me first, Microsoft

    It's like the movie 300, only instead of Spartan warriors and whizzy effects, we get open-source geeks and wiki threads. At the Tipping Point wiki, more than 600 700 ticked-off Linux Lovers have added their names to the Sue Me First, Microsoft list - taunting the Redmond army to come down and crush them.

  • News: New photo of Apple iPod sex toy

    News of Apple's fury at an iPod-controlled sex toy has spread around the world faster than a Windows virus. Apple is complaining that the Ann Summers iGasm vibrator uses promotional imagery too similar to its own iPod silhouette advertising. Now we have a photo of the actual love enhancer, and it's available in classic Apple white - just like the iPod and Apple's Mac computers.

  • News: US online advertising up 35 percent

    US online advertising revenue in 2006 was 35 percent higher than the previous year, according to an IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) official

  • News: DKIM antiphishing, antispam email specs published

    The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has published specifications for a new email authentication tool to help fight against phishing and spam, opening the way for software vendors and email service providers to find better ways to protect email recipients

  • News: PS3 update adds DVD upscaling, PSP Remote Play

    A software update for Sony's PS3 (PlayStation 3) video game console has been announced. New features in the PS3 release include DVD upscaling capabilities and more PSP Remote Play functionality

  • News: Music giant EMI to continue with DRM-free plan

    Some questions have been raised concerning the future of music giant EMI, after Terra Firma's $6.4bn purchase of the company. But one thing that's unlikely to be affected by EMI's changing ownership is its decision to offer DRM-free digital music tracks via the iTunes Music Store

  • News: Dell reveals open-source Ubuntu PC details

    Dell has published the first details of what users can expect for some of its forthcoming Ubuntu Linux systems on its blog - but the company is keeping quiet on a number of specifics

  • News: More jobs likely to be axed at CA

    Software vendor CA, which completed a round of 1,700 job cuts in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, is anticipating further operational restructuring and job losses, according to CA chief financial officer Nancy Cooper

  • News: HP settles with SEC over Perkins resignation

    HP has reached a settlement with the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) over its investigation into the resignation of Tom Perkins from the HP board

  • News: Michigan man fined $400 for 'stealing' Wi-Fi

    A Michigan man who used a local café's Wi-Fi connection from his parked car to check his email and surf the web has been fined $400 and ordered to work 40 hours of community service

  • News: Guitar Hero III: launch details

    Activision's smash hit games series Guitar Hero, in which gamers use specially made 'guitar' controllers to follow the notes of rock songs, has its next instalment at last, although Activision has yet to commit to an actual name for the game. The general public is likely to assume for now (perhaps rightly so) that it will be called Guitar Hero III

  • News: Amazon acquires audio book publisher Brilliance

    Amazon.com has acquired the independent audio book publisher Brilliance Audio. The purchase will allow Amazon to expand the number of audio books it produces and offer customers a wider variety of audio selections to choose from, Amazon said in a statement

  • 23 May 2007

  • News: EU roaming prices slashed from summer

    The EC (European Commission) released a new roaming initiative today that will force mobile roaming prices to drop this summer.

  • Western Digital AV drives hard drive

    Western Digital is aiming its new hard drive family at the expanding audio and video markets. With high-definition content taking up as many as 16 streams, these drives come in 80GB to 500GB capacities. Seek speeds adjust automatically to keep operational noise so low it's almost inaudible, while temperature and power consumption is minimal.

  • Opinion: The sad tale of the giant marketing marionette

    Some people believe YouTube and similar content-sharing websites are havens for free-spirited youths rebelling against the corporate message spewed out by mainstream media. Such people may be interested in the sad story of the giant Reykjavik puppet.

  • Opinion: Scissor Sisters polish their Halo 3

    The worlds of music and Xbox gaming will collide next Wednesday, in a specially arranged Xbox 360 mass Halo 3 online event. A group of effete, sexually ambiguous disco dancers will take on the Scissor Sisters (did that joke work?).

  • News: Ofcom fixed-line mis-selling protection extended

    Consumers that are protected from the mis-selling of fixed-line voice call services will also be safe from those offering voice and broadband services using LLU (local loop unbundling) technology, thanks to a set of rules released by Ofcom

  • News: Google must share code, open-source expert says

    Companies such as Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said yesterday

  • News: Apple fury at iPod sex toy

    iPod-maker Apple is threatening to sue a sex shop over a vibrator that hooks up to an iPod and has similar advertising to that used in posters for the digital music player.

  • News: Critical Opera flaw plugged in 9.21 update

    Opera Software has updated its Opera browser to fix a critical flaw that allowed attackers to hijack Windows PCs by feeding them a malicious torrent file

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