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  • 03 May 2007

  • News: Creative launches £28 MP3 player

    Creative is launching a small-capacity MP3 player that has the same capacity but is the half price of Apple's Shuffle player. Known as the Zen Stone, the new £28 player will be available in six glossy finishes: black, red, pink, blue, green or white and has a capacity of 1GB. Apple’s updated iPod Shuffle is available in white, pink, blue, green or orange. Its 1GB version costs £55.

  • News: Microsoft buys mobile ad firm ScreenTonic

    Microsoft has agreed to buy ScreenTonic SA, a company that specialises in delivering location-based ads to mobile devices.

  • News: DDoS attacks die off, but spam returns

    Symantec has noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, where a network of remote-controlled bots overloads a target's system and takes it offline.

  • News: Microsoft launches first national email archive

    Microsoft is collaborating with the British Library to create the first archive of British emails.

  • Opinion: Email Domesday is doomsday for email

    The British Library has started an initiative to create a "21st century Domesday Book" - a snapshot of the UK seen through emails. The world-famous library is asking everyone in the UK to forward an email from their inbox or sent mail box representing their life or interests.

  • News: 'Green' Apple targets iPod & monitors

    In an open letter posted to the company's website on Wednesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs outlined plans to remove toxic chemicals from its products, making "A Greener Apple”.

  • News: Windows users hit by 'bug-a-day' threat

    Another bug-a-day campaign called the "Month of ActiveX Bugs" has emerged, this time targeting Microsoft. Although some researchers have already dismissed the project as copycat, others are warning its findings might put Windows users at risk of attack.

  • News: Dell asked to preinstall Firefox

    Firefox users are drawing on Dell's user-driven IdeaStorm site to push the computer maker to preinstall the open-source browser.

  • News: iGoogle bug grief continues

    Google renamed and upgraded its Personalized Home Page this week, but one thing the update couldn't shake was a bug that began upsetting many users last Thursday and persisted until yesterday.

  • News: New AMD chip pre-empts Intel's Santa Rosa

    AMD has introduced a new chipset for mobile computing on wireless networks in an attempt to get ahead of similar news expected soon from rival Intel.

  • News: Yahoo Web Messenger uses Adobe Flash

    Yahoo has launched a new browser-based version of its Messenger instant messaging service, so that users can access their accounts without needing the PC application on the machine they're using.

  • News: Symantec's business AV product slips back

    Symantec is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.

  • News: Nokia launches low-end phones in India

    Nokia has launched seven mobile phones for emerging markets, including two intended for shared use by families or entire villages.

  • News: Texas Instruments invests $1bn in Philippines

    Texas Instruments (TI) plans to invest $1bn in the Philippines over the next ten years to expand its chip assembly operations there, it announced today.

  • 02 May 2007

  • News: SpeedBit speeds up YouTube & iTunes

    Anyone who watches videos on the internet is familiar with this problem: You go to one of the big video sites such as YouTube or Metacafe, you see a video you like and that can be downloaded immediately, but after a few seconds the film suddenly stops and you find yourself staring at a motionless movie player. Of course, you can fiddle with the pause button or make a cup of coffee while the player downloads a few more seconds of film, but the viewing experience has lost some of the excitement.

  • Opinion: Digg digs itself in deep in DVD DRM debates

    Putting encryption on DVDs was never popular, so it’s little surprise that making yet stronger copy-protection on HD DVDs has already resulted in someone cracking the code. Details of a software string that could be used to unlock the DRM (digital rights management) were posted online this week – and very quickly picked up on by bloggers and other web users worldwide.

  • News: Bank customers get chip and PIN readers

    The Royal Bank of Scotland is to become the second bank in a month to give out handheld chip and PIN readers to customers.

  • News: Uk gov't urged to act on 'virtual goods'

    The UK government must ensure that funds exchanged in online communities or ‘virtual worlds’ are protected by existing anti-fraud laws and regulations, an independent watchdog has warned.

  • News: Hitachi ships UK's first single 1TB hard drive

    Hitachi today announced the first 1TB (one terrabyte) capacity single internal hard drive available to all UK consumers. The Deskstar 7K1000 first shipped in March 2007, and is now available through PCWorld.co.uk and PC World stores throughout the UK for £249.

  • News: London Wi-Fi networks open to attack

    After years of stark warnings, many Wi-Fi networks located in London's City financial district still lack basic levels of security, a security vendor claims to have found.

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