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  • 16 April 2007

  • News: Government 'must improve UK's broadband'

    The BSG (Broadband Stakeholder Group) has warned Ofcom and the government that they must quickly map out a path for next generation broadband or see UK competitiveness fall away as a result.

  • News: Apple iTunes DRM ban proposed

    A small Norwegian political party has called on the government to ban DRM (digital rights management) and legalise file-sharing, responding to growing consumer opposition in the country to restrictive controls on downloading and duplicating content from the internet.

  • Opinion: EA builds Second Life-style Big Brother

    Endemol, maker of Channel 4's Big Brother, and EA (Electronic Arts) are to launch a virtual world where people can take part in their favourite TV-reality gameshows. Perhaps predictably the project is known as 'Virtual Me'. It will allow Second Life-style avatars to compete online in versions of 'Fame Academy', 'Big Brother' and - saints preserve us - 'Deal or No Deal'.

  • News: Blu-ray & HD DVD tackle hackers

    Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology.

  • News: Adobe CS3 ships in the UK

    Adobe has begun shipping Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium and Standard editions in the UK.

  • News: Skype worm harvests email addresses

    A worm targeting Skype's VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) application is harvesting email addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said today.

  • News: Asustek launches £100 PC

    Asustek plans to launch a series of low-cost PCs later this year aimed at developing nations.

  • Opinion: YouTube to be destroyed from within

    Web 2.0 and communities online include the seed to their own destruction, as was proved recently when a teenager forced YouTube to pull hundreds of video clips from its servers. YouTube shouldn't fear the media giants, it should be scared of its own users.

  • News: Intel plans beyond 'Core 2 Duo on steroids'

    The next version of Intel's Centrino notebook platform, called Santa Rosa, will hit the market next month, but the company is already looking ahead to other products, including an updated ‘Santa Rosa refresh’ and a quad-core mobile processor set for release next year.

  • Opinion: Flickr's lesson to businesses

    Flickr is the ultimate Web 2.0 app - one of the first to implement tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML); to offer APIs to third-party developers; to encourage mashups; and to incorporate groups or ‘lite’ social networking into a tool previously viewed as family-centric.

  • News: Google beats Yahoo & Microsoft to Doubleclick

    Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1bn in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

  • News: Wikis, blogs, RSS aim for the workplace

    As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened on Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these internet tools belong in the workplace.

  • News: Adobe Media Player preview on show

    Adobe has developed its first desktop media player and plans to give the industry an early peek at it at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week.

  • News: Microsoft's Silverlight takes on Adobe's Flash

    Microsoft will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web this week as part of a broader strategy to go head to head with web and design tools powerhouse Adobe.

  • News: Intel's PRAM to replace DRAM in PCs

    Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner plans to give the company's first public demonstration of its PRAM (phase-change RAM) technology at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference, which starts Tuesday in Beijing.

  • News: Is Microsoft fuel cell designed for Zune?

    A New York-based company developing fuel cells for consumer electronics devices says it has started commercial production of a fuel cell-based recharger for Microsoft.

  • News: Intel emphasizes innovation at IDF

    Intel sought to emphasise its role in innovation in China during a low-key media preview to its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) today in Beijing.

  • 14 April 2007

  • News: The 20 worst technologies of all time

    If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't - and some fail spectacularly.

  • News: iPod's dominance is only just beginning

    Generally, Apple has very little use for anniversaries. Recent milestones - like 2006's 30th anniversary of the company's founding, the Mac's 20th anniversary in 2004, and the iPod's fifth anniversary last autumn - passed without much official to-do from the company. But when Apple sold its 100 millionth iPod last week, the company made sure not to let the occasion go by without comment.

  • News: Windows kills the Mac persecution complex

    Mac watchers have been writing about Windows a lot lately, following Apple's switch to Intel processors, and the consequent ability to run Windows on Intel-based Macs, both of which have profound implications for the Mac. It could eradicate the Mac persecution complex once and for all, change the outright hostility that many Mac users feel for Windows into shoulder-shrug indifference, and make the Mac more popular than it's been for a long, long time.

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