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  • 13 April 2007

  • News: Record-breaking mobile to connect from Everest

    Mountain climber Rod Baber is preparing for the climb of a lifetime and hoping to reach the summit of Mount Everest in late May or early June.

  • News: Dangerous Storm Trojan breaks records

    A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, according to security companies.

  • News: Windows Vista's OEM BIOS hacked

    Microsoft's anti-piracy team has acknowledged that hacks against Windows Vista's OEM BIOS activation scheme are circulating, but seemed to say it has no plans to immediately counter the threat.

  • Opinion: MySpace wrecks family home

    It's ironic that a site called MySpace is responsible for a bunch of strangers - known in the social-networking scene as "friends" – wrecking someone else's house.

  • News: Apple's Leopard delayed due to iPhone

    June's Mac OS X 10.5 launch has been cancelled as Apple focuses on the release of its highly anticipated iPhone handset

  • News: Intel to upgrade UMPC platform

    Analysts at Intel's technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing more excitement over word that the company will launch a new platform for ultra mobile PCs (UMPCs).

  • Opinion: Sony kills budget PlayStation 3

    It’s been billed as the best console ever produced (see our PS3 review), but potential buyers in the UK continue to grumble about the high price of the PlayStation 3 (PS3). At £425, it’s significantly more expensive than Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and so many bargain hunters have been playing a waiting game in anticipation of a major price cut.

  • Opinion: Sony kills budget PlayStation 3

    It’s been billed as the best console ever produced (see our PS3 review), but potential buyers in the UK continue to grumble about the high price of the PlayStation 3 (PS3). At £425, it’s significantly more expensive than Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and so many bargain hunters have been playing a waiting game in anticipation of a major price cut.

  • News: Microsoft Word 2007 bug is a built-in feature

    The Word 2007 bugs pegged as security vulnerabilities by an Israeli researcher are nothing of the sort, Microsoft has claimed. Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are actually by design.

  • News: Windows Home Server code leaked online

    Microsoft is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog (http://www.thehotfix.net/) after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to a small group of testers.

  • News: Dual Blu-ray & HD DVD player coming to Europe

    One of the main backers of the Blu-ray Disc format, Samsung Electronics, plans to release an optical disc player this year that will play both Blu-ray Disc and the rival HD DVD format.

  • News: European .eu domain reaches first birthday

    Europe's top-level internet domain, .eu, turns one year old this week and has already become the continent's number-three regional domain name.

  • News: Microsoft backs China's anti-piracy measures

    Microsoft is seeing some improvements to the considerable problem of software piracy in China, it's top lawyer said yesterday.

  • 12 April 2007

  • Opinion: Virgin Radio on your Wii and PS3

    Virgin Radio has launched a service for users of the Wii and PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. Gamers on the two next-gen devices can tune into the middle-of-the-road rock radio station - as well as three of its sister stations - using the Virgin Radio Player.

  • News: Download while you sleep

    Broadband internet service provider Plusnet (www.plus.co.uk) today announced that it is offering customers the option of scheduling large downloads overnight when web connections are at less of a premium. Broadband Your Way, as Plusnet’s 1GB to 40GB per month-by-month broadband contracts are known, cost from £10 to £30 a month for access between 8am and midnight. Outside these hours, Plusnet customers can schedule large software, music and video downloads without affecting on their monthly broadband usage limits. The service goes live from today.

  • News: UK identity theft increases by 69 percent

    The number of reported UK victims of identity theft continues to rise, according to new data released by credit-checking agency Experian

  • News: Microsoft and PC makers call time on Windows XP

    Microsoft will force PC makers to stop selling machines running XP by the end of this year, despite ongoing compatibility problems and demand for XP from users

  • News: European mobile-phone bills set to tumble

    A European law cutting the costs of mobile-phone roaming fees today moved closer to adoption. A European Parliament committee supported the change proposed by the European Commission, despite pressure from phone companies.

  • Opinion: Want to stop spam email? Try an earthquake

    The amount of spam email originating in China dropped dramatically in the first three months of 2007, according to security vendor Sophos. This bucked a trend of growth in worldwide spam. But while the Chinese government and ISPs have worked hard to cut back on junk email, experts feel that its biggest spam-prevention mechanism was... an earthquake. That's big.

  • Opinion: Beatles music one step closer to iTunes

    After losing to Apple Computer (now Apple Inc) on the Mac maker's use of its fruit-shaped logo on iTunes, The Beatles' record label Apple Corps has now settled its royalties dispute with music giant EMI – removing the last barrier to the Fab Four's legendary music catalogue becoming available for legal digital download via services such as iTunes.

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