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  • Opinion: HDTV should mean broadband for all

    You may not be as HD (high-definition) ready as you think you are, according to ITV chief Michael Grade. He's concerned that merely buying an HDTV won't be enough, and that in order to enjoy HDTV we'll all have to shell out for an expensive cable TV subscription.

  • News: ITV boss Grade calls for free HDTV

    ITV's Michael Grade has warned that most UK viewers will not be able to receive HDTV (high-definition TV) when British TV goes digital in 2012. He's concerned that only cable and satellite stations will be able to afford HD bandwidth.

  • News: Met police plans Olympic IT lockdown

    London's Metropolitan Police is set to make a series of key IT spending decisions over the next three years, before a "lockdown" to prevent disruption close to the 2012 Olympics, analysts have predicted.

  • News: MySpace unblocks Photobucket videos

    An impasse between the world's largest social network and the US's most popular photo site has ended

  • News: Encryption shame of UK businesses

    Just 9 percent of UK firms have an enterprise-wide encryption strategy, research has revealed.

  • News: Business iPhone planned by Apple partner

    AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers but analysts aren't recommending that enterprises supply workers with Apple’s new handset.

  • News: Quicktime enables Apple Mac hack

    The vulnerability that put $10,000 into the pocket of a hacker during a Mac hacking contest is in Apple's QuickTime media player, according to researchers.

  • News: Top UK PC security threats revealed

    Security software firm Webroot has pinpointed the most common forms of malicious security threats in the UK, picking out the Trojan Downloader Zlob as the most commonly found concern.

  • News: Intel to integrate PC components into chips

    For years, the guts of a PC remained largely unchanged. In one product generation after another, Intel processors connected to a chipset that consisted of a memory controller and an I/O controller. That's about to change.

  • News: UK school Wi-Fi ban proposed

    Teachers are lobbying education secretary Alan Johnson to investigate the potential health risks posed by Wi-Fi networks

  • News: Linux leader Red Hat buys MetaMatrix

    Red Hat has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a provider of data management and integration software.

  • News: BlackBerry outage alienates RIM customers

    The widespread BlackBerry outage in North America last week inconvenienced some corporate users of the popular wireless email service. But what most irked them was the lack of an immediate explanation or frequent updates about the outage from BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion (RIM)

  • News: Blogs infested with porn, hatred and malware

    The internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested.

  • News: Microsoft fails to patch 'critical' bug

    Microsoft's security team is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company's server software.

  • News: Microsoft meets EU antitrust deadline

    Microsoft said it’s met the European Union antitrust agency's deadline for responding to allegations that the company overcharges for the information rivals need to make their products work smoothly with Windows.

  • News: Opera Mini overtakes Safari...in Ukraine

    For the first time, the Opera Mini has infiltrated desktop browser rankings in a European country, indicating that the use of mobile browsing software may be gaining momentum, according to Opera Software and market-share data.

  • News: Apple to vote on 'hazardous' products

    Apple shareholders will vote on a resolution at the company's annual meeting 10 May on a proposal to remove certain hazardous chemicals from their products.

  • News: Microsoft asks for EU advice on pricing

    Microsoft asked the European Commission today how much it should charge for protocol information, in an attempt to defuse the latest crisis between the regulator and the software giant.

  • News: City of London gets ubiquitous Wi-Fi

    London is home to a new Wi-Fi network that’s not only one of Europe's largest but also among the first to give users mobile coverage similar to a cellular network.

  • News: Virginia Tech killer used eBay for magazine clips

    Cho Seung-Hui, killer of 32 on the Virginia Tech campus last week, bought at least five 10-shot magazine clips on eBay's website for one of the two guns he used, the same gun he purchased in February from a Wisconsin online dealer.