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  • 26 June 2007

  • News: Spotplex takes on Digg with new ranking scheme

    Spotplex has announced a new content-aggregation site that it said will provide Digg.com-like rankings of internet content - with a twist. Instead of requiring users to rank content, Spotplex will automatically rank it based on the number of people reading it.

  • News: Gov't refuses to publish ID Card reviews

    The UK government's chief whip in the House of Lords has underlined ministers' refusal to publish ‘gateway reviews’ of its controversial £5.3bn ID cards scheme.

  • 25 June 2007

  • News: Download the new PC Advisor podcast

    This week, the PC Advisor team discusses the changing form factor of the PC. Tablet PCs, ultraportable laptops and computers with customised hardware have revolutionised computing in the home and office. But which form factors are likely to stand the test of time?

  • News: UK ID card plan hit by delay

    The UK is delaying the start of the procurement process for the IT systems that will eventually issue ID cards for an estimated 50 million UK citizens over the next decade.

  • News: Pure enables music downloads on DAB radios

    Imagination Technologies, the company behind the PURE Digital radio brand, and UBC Media Group are to launch a service to allow listeners to purchase music directly from DAB digital radios.

  • News: iTunes overtakes Amazon & Target

    According to market research firm NPD, in the first quarter of 2007, Apple's iTunes Store overtook Amazon.com and Target to become the US's third largest music retailer with around 10 percent of all music sales.

  • News: MPs attack freedom of information costs

    A committee of Members of Parliament (MPs) has attacked UK government moves to change the charging regime for freedom of information requests, saying ministers have not looked at the cost to the public of reduced access to information.

  • News: Wireless HD video draws scepticism

    A chipset promising to allow users to send high definition (HD) video wirelessly throughout the home faces hurdles in the market due to competing technology standards, according to market researcher Gartner.

  • News: Samsung develops 64GB laptop flash drive

    Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications.

  • News: Apple claims iPop is iPod copycat

    New Zealand-based software company Orbitcoms has drawn Apple’s ire. Apple is threatening legal action over an Orbitcoms brand-name, which it said is too similar to Apple’s iPod, said Tony Shi, Orbitcoms CEO.

  • News: Seagate joins Hitachi with 1TB drive

    Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology. This could save up to a quarter of the power consumed by normal drives. It has also announced a ruggedised 2.5in drive holding 80GB. Hitachi was first to market with a 1TB drive last month.

  • News: Users compensated after Norton Antivirus flaw

    More than a month after Symantec knocked out 50,000 Chinese PCs with a bad software update, the company is ready to offer compensation. But Chinese users eligible for the offer have to act fast; it's only valid for a couple of weeks.

  • News: Microsoft kills Windows 'Longhorn' client

    Microsoft has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client codenamed 'Longhorn'.

  • News: MacBooks boost Apple's laptop market share

    Apple's MacBooks are continuing to show strong growth in the industry as the company's notebook share jumped almost two percent in May, according to market research firm NPD.

  • News: Symantec targets McAfee's SiteAdvisor

    Symantec researchers are working on a pair of projects to give Norton users a better idea of whether the websites they visit or the files they download are trustworthy.

  • News: New Yahoo CEO reorganises company

    One week after Yahoo named co-founder Jerry Yang as CEO, the company has promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006.

  • News: Nine out of 10 workers prefer great outdoors

    Mobile workers are taking their work to the beach, onto sailing dinghies and into tree houses as research confirms that nine out of 10 employees prefer to work outdoors.

  • 24 June 2007

  • News: Adobe upgrades Illustrator CS3

    Adobe has released Illustrator CS3 13.0.1, an update to the latest major release of its illustration software for Mac OS X.

  • 23 June 2007

  • News: MySpace threatening net bandwidth

    Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace.

  • News: Top 15 Media, Video & Audio utilities

    Your PC is an entertainment powerhouse, just waiting to be unleashed. Its talents include recording and playing music, supporting editing of audio and video files, and burning DVDs and CDs. Unfortunately, the software that came with your PC probably won't handle these tasks with maximum effectiveness. 9831 http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=9831&pn=2

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