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  • 05 March 2007

  • Opinion: Saving money on iTunes

    Contrary to Matt Egan’s claims that iTunes is economically unviable for music fans, I’d say that it actually saves me money. Yes, I do pay 79p for a single track when I could get 14 songs on a CD for £7.99, but much of the time I don’t want the fillers that are dumped on me by a full album.

  • Opinion: Saving money on iTunes

    Contrary to Matt Egan’s claims that iTunes is economically unviable for music fans, I’d say that it actually saves me money. Yes, I do pay 79p for a single track when I could get 14 songs on a CD for £7.99, but much of the time I don’t want the fillers that are dumped on me by a full album.

  • Opinion: Adobe reveals CS3 release date

    Today Adobe told us that the the long-awaited, global launch date of Creative Suite 3 will be 27 March.

  • News: Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox upgrade

    Microsoft plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360. The company also plans to increase the size of its Xbox Live Arcade games from 50MB to 150MB.

  • News: iPhone to get VoIP capability

    Macworld UK reports that Apple’s iPhone will be able to make voice over IP (VoIP) calls using a mobile web tool that works via smartphones’ built-in web browsers.

  • News: Palm discussing sale, investment or acquisition

    Smartphone maker Palm is consulting with investment bankers on its strategic options, including the prospect of selling the company, seeking investment from venture capitalists, or making an acquisition of its own, according to a report in the The Wall Street Journal.

  • News: Tool cracks Vista activation

    A web site posted a tool Thursday that can apparently crack Windows Vista's activation process by applying brute force - and lots of time - to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of Microsoft's most important anti-piracy methods.

  • News: Minister buys Second Life island

    His main political rival controls three national television networks, a newspaper, a weekly magazine and a publishing house, so an Italian minister has decided to try and level the propaganda playing field by buying himself an island in Second Life.

  • News: Firefox & Safari hit IE share

    Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari web browsers continued to snare market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer last month, a web metrics company says.

  • News: Touch-sensitive 3D screen launched

    IO2 Technology has released its Heliodisplay that projects a 2-dimensional mid-air display with up to 1024 x 1024 resolution. It appears to be convincingly 3-dimensional though, and can be interactive, allowing a finger or hand to move images around in the air as if one were grabbing a virtual object or icon.

  • News: Vista's firewall slammed by Symantec

    Windows Vista's firewall can easily be subverted because of design decisions made by Microsoft, according to researcher at Symantec.

  • News: Toshiba boosts Nand flash production

    Toshiba is expanding production of Nand flash memory chips faster than originally planned, the company said today.

  • News: Global stock turmoil puts focus on Gates

    Bill Gates sold over 20 million shares of Microsoft stock last month, with just around 2 million of the shares affected by global stock market turmoil.

  • 04 March 2007

  • News: Retailer puts RFID tags in shoes

    One of Europe's largest shoe companies plans to embed wireless chips in shoes sold at hundreds of stores across the continent.

  • 03 March 2007

  • Opinion: Microsoft's big push for Vista

    The software giant has a huge budget with which to promote its new OS to consumers. PC Advisor hunkers down for the onslaught

  • Opinion: Spread the fun with Vista and WMP 11.0

    Vista makes it fun to store and use media files. Learn how to share with PC Advisor

  • News: Vista cuts off broadband users

    Windows Vista PC users are experiencing difficulties with some broadband ISPs’ installation discs, with Virgin, Tiscali and Orange customers struggling to connect

  • News: Opinion: Will Palm soon be history?

    The once-mighty Palm, still successful on paper from the momentum of past glories, is doomed to decline and failure. It wasn't always thus. Here's my pre-emptive post mortem. Style…

  • 02 March 2007

  • Opinion: DRM-free music? I'm with Steve Jobs

    There's probably more than a touch of hyperbole in Steve Jobs' assertion that Apple would embrace DRM-free iTunes 'wholeheartedly', but he's spot on when he says that music companies currently sell 90 percent of their wares without digital rights management. And I buy 100 percent of my music that way.

  • Opinion: The great PS3 pre-order scandal

    Warnings before reading: 1) This story is two days old; 2) This story was nicked from another website; 3) Sony 'fanboys' will find that steam comes out of their ears if they read this story. But it's a good 'un, so here goes anyway.

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