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  • 07 November 2006

  • News: EU survey: roaming costs too much

    It's not just a bunch of bureaucrats in Brussels who think mobile phone companies charge too much for making calls abroad. Some 63 percent of European citizens avoid using their mobile phones while travelling, mainly because of the costs attached, according to a survey carried out for the European Commission.

  • Opinion: Christmas miss list

    What’s top of the Christmas wish list in your household? E-commerce giant Amazon already thinks it knows, having announced its top 10 gift predictions just in time to give you eight weeks to place your order before the big day.

  • Opinion: Christmas miss list

    What’s top of the Christmas wish list in your household? E-commerce giant Amazon already thinks it knows, having announced its top 10 gift predictions just in time to give you eight weeks to place your order before the big day.

  • News: Heathrow Express gets Wi-Fi

    Wi-Fi access is pretty much a given at UK airport lounges, but T-Mobile plans to encourage users to log-on before they check in by enabling hotspot access on all Heathrow Express trains.

  • News: Microsoft readies Xbox 360 TV

    Microsoft hopes to dampen enthusiasm for Sony’s US PlayStation 3 launch by introducing a TV service for its Xbox 360 console on 22 November.

  • News: OLPC's £75 laptop to ship next week

    Brazil is due to receive the first 50 functional notebooks developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project.

  • Opinion: Mobile phones: newest form of birth control?

    Researchers say that men who use cell phones frequently have significantly lower sperm counts than those who don't use cell phones at all.

  • Opinion: Bill Gates the hotelier?

    On the surface it may seem like a case of very strange bedfellows. But when Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and the world's richest man, teamed up with Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, the world's eight richest person, to launch a $3.7 billion (£1.9bn) bid for the Four Seasons Hotels group, it's not as odd a pairing as many might think.

  • News: nVidia targets iPods

    Nvidia is to acquire PortalPlayer Inc, which makes semiconductors and software for digital music players and other devices, in a bid to expand from its core success in selling graphics cards.

  • News: Flash and Firefox to unite

    Adobe will contribute source code to the Mozilla Foundation in a bid to establish a standard scripting language for creating interactive applications for Adobe's Flash Player and Mozilla's Firefox browser.

  • News: PlayStation 3 available online now

    Highly anticipated console offered on internet auctions before it ships, with some buyers shipping to the UK

  • News: Lawsuit targets Palm Treo shutdown

    NTP has filed a patent infringrement lawsuit against Palm, echoing the allegations the patent-holding firm made that nearly shut down Research in Motion's (RIM's) BlackBerry service.

  • News: Microsoft launches Virtual Earth 3D

    Microsoft plans to up the ante in local search by adding 3D models of 15 US cities to the maps of its Live Local service

  • 06 November 2006

  • Opinion: OpenOffice patched

    Office applications of all types are feeling the pain: OpenOffice.org has just patched three critical bugs in its competitor to Microsoft Office.

  • News: Microsoft announces Vista price details

    Microsoft has revealed pricing for all except the Enterprise version of its Vista operating system

  • News: Sony launches world's lightest laptop

    Sony is launching what’s said to be the world’s lightest notebook as part of its bid to attract more business buyers in Japan. The Type G Vaio, which is expected to sell for around £990, weighs less than 2lbs.

  • News: Office 2007 ready for release

    Microsoft has confirmed that it has completed work on Office 2007’s system code and released it to manufacturing.

  • News: ActiveX triggers critical Windows hole

    Microsoft is investigating reports of a vulnerability in a Windows ActiveX control that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a computer. One security company rated the vulnerability critical, while Microsoft said it allowed only limited attacks.

  • News: Vodafone partners with Windows for mobiles

    Vodafone has picked Microsoft's Windows Mobile as the third operating system it will offer in its line of mobile phones.

  • News: 100m websites now online

    The internet is now 100 million websites strong, with the growing number of blogs and small business sites given credit for huge growth this year by research firm Netcraft.

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