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  • News: Europe to tidy up online music "mess"

    Providers of online music services in Europe should benefit from a new one-stop licensing system aimed at simplifying the complex process of obtaining music distribution rights across the continent.

  • Opinion: Another reason to hate mobile phones

    According to reports, the credit card is dead. Soon we'll make all our payments via our mobile phones.

  • News: New Sony site takes on YouTube

    Sony has launched a YouTube competitor in Japan on Friday that allows users to share videos and blog about them.

  • News: Price hike for '$100 laptop'

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group has raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to $175, but is still confident it will collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.

  • News: Google users furious at Home Page glitch

    Users of Google's Personalized Home Page service, which lets people turn Google.com into a customised portal, is suffering from a significant technical problem that loses people's settings

  • News: New Sony Memory Stick is fastest ever

    Sony has launched of its first Sony Memory Stick PRO-HG media card, which it will begin shipping in August 2007. The Memory Stick PRO-HG is an extended format of the Memory Stick PRO format, offering high performances to meet the stringent demands of end users using digital entertainment equipment.

  • News: Mobile phones to replace credit cards

    The mobile phone industry has moved forward in its efforts to agree to a global standard for delivering secure services such as credit-card payments on handheld devices, according to an industry executive.

  • News: Scratch cards for $3 XP & Office bundle

    Microsoft won't rely on its usual antipiracy software to block counterfeit copies of the just-announced $3 bundle of Windows XP, Office Home and Student 2007, but it will build a new system based on scratch cards, the company said.

  • News: Apple's Mac OS as vulnerable as Windows

    Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi sent a shudder through the Mac community last week when he successfully hacked the Mac with an exploit that he sent to a friend attending the CanSecWest security conference

  • News: $1 billion spam lawsuit could benefit us all

    A $1 billion lawsuit filed promises to open up a new front in the battle against spam. It targets not just spammers, but - for the first time - also those responsible for harvesting email addresses on behalf of spammers.

  • News: MySpace China's patio furniture puzzler

    A beta version of News Corp's MySpace community has launched in China, but users must be careful when typing the Chinese site's URL or they may end up shopping for patio furniture.

  • News: Open-source boost for Adobe's Flex

    Adobe has launched a new version of its Flex SDK development tool set, code-named Moxie, along with plans to provide its code to the open-source community.

  • Opinion: How to choose your next digital camera

    Choosing and buying a compact digital camera can be a bewildering process. In fact, besides selecting a hot beverage from one of those fancy high street coffee shops, I can't think of a more decision-heavy purchase.

  • News: UK IT staff shortage is easing

    The shortage of IT staff seems to be easing, with employers noticing an improvement in labour supply, research from the E-Skills UK learning and skills council has revealed.

  • News: UK doctors personal details posted online

    The UK Department of Health has been forced to apologise after the personal details of hundreds of doctors - including home addresses, phone numbers, sexual orientation and previous convictions - were made available online

  • News: iPod's UK share behind other markets

    Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook said the iPod remains the dominant media player across the world, although competing devices are taking a chunk out of the UK market.

  • News: Apple boosted by iPod & Mac sales

    Apple’s Mac and iPod product lines reported impressive growth during the first three months of the year, helping Apple achieve $5.26bn in revenue and $770m in profit in Q1.

  • News: Shock as Nintendo Wii misses target

    Nintendo reported a big increase in sales and profit for its financial year just ended, although sales of its smash-hit Wii console missed their target by a whisker.

  • News: Apple backs Steve Jobs in options scandal

    Apple's Board of Directors has backed CEO Steve Jobs, issuing a statement one day after former CFO Fred Anderson said Jobs told him to backdate options.

  • News: $3 Office & XP suite no threat to $100 laptop

    Microsoft's announcement last week that it will sell a $3 software bundle to students in developing countries is a positive move that won’t hurt the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort, according to a member of the non-profit group’s board.