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  • 02 April 2007

  • News: Were you a technology April Fool?

    If the IT industry has a favourite holiday, April Fools' Day appears to be it. As in past years, the day saw vendors as well as technology news sites releasing so many prank press releases and news stories that the front page of tech news aggregators such as Techmeme and Slashdot were dominated by joke headlines on Sunday morning, leading at least one observer to say enough is enough.

  • News: UK salaries finally paid after Bacs glitch

    The UK Payments association Apacs has confirmed that 400,000 people whose salaries were held up after database problems at the Bacs clearing system have now been paid.

  • News: Apple confirms DRM-free iTunes

    EMI Music’s entire digital music catalogue will be available for purchase without digital rights management (DRM) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs predicted that more than half of the songs on iTunes will be available in DRM-free versions by the end of this year

  • News: Apple iPhone launch date leaked

    Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Macworld Expo in January this year revealed that the iPhone would be released in June but now US wireless company, Cingular, has let slip that the device will be available from the site from 11 June.

  • News: River Thames becomes a Wi-Fi hotspot

    A new service enables users to roam anywhere along the 22km stretch of the River Thames and its banks without experiencing any interruption to their internet connection.

  • News: Video iPods get UK price cut

    Apple has announced a small price cut for its video iPod range in the UK. The 30GB model, previously priced at £189, is now available for £179. The top-end 80GB video iPod has had it’s price cut from £259 to £189. Prices for Apple’s iPod nano and iPod shuffle ranges remain the same.

  • News: PSP players get free Wi-Fi

    Sony has announced a new firmware upgrade for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) that allows users to surf the internet and play compatible games online at over 7,000 T-Mobile US HotSpots. Locations include most Starbucks, Borders bookstores and over 70 major airports.

  • News: Comment spam & 'splogs' pollute blogs

    Blog spammers have found ways to automate inserting their unwanted messages into online conversations, but the few tools available to block them lag woefully behind.

  • News: Copy-free iTunes coming today - report

    Apple and EMI are expected to announce a DRM-free approach to iTunes at a special UK announcement today. The copy-free approach would allow music fans to swap tracks bought through iTunes freely between iPods and computers

  • News: Windows fix tackles malicious websites

    Microsoft has decided to rush out a fix for a flaw in its Windows operating system, saying that the problem has become too serious to ignore.

  • News: Excitement over UK Apple launch today

    EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli will hold an event in the UK with Apple boss Steve Jobs as a special guest, according to an invitation sent to press yesterday.

  • News: Mozilla boosts Windows Mobile browsing

    The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available last week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.

  • News: AMD releases ATI-integrated chipset

    AMD has introduced its M690 chipset for embedded devices, rounding out the company's first chipset line that integrates technology from ATI.

  • News: Forget Vista, XP offers power savings too

    Microsoft may have tooted the public relations horn about Vista's power-saving features, said a Gartner analyst this week, but businesses would be smart to look at ways they can save electricity on their XP-powered PCs rather than worry about what the new OS offers.

  • News: Police recover stolen NHS laptop

    Police have recovered a stolen National Health Service laptop containing names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children.

  • 01 April 2007

  • News: Apple upgrades Airport wireless

    Apple has released href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportbasestationupdate2007001formac.html" title="AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001" target="_blank">AirPort Base Station Update 2007-001 for Mac, an update to the software used to manage its AirPort Base Station wireless networking hardware.

  • News: Seagate launches 160GB laptop drive

    Seagate has announced Momentus, which it’s calling the world's first 7,200rpm 160GB laptop hard drive using perpendicular recording technology

  • 31 March 2007

  • News: Windows Vista gaming guide

    In some ways, debating whether or not Windows Vista is good for gaming is a moot point. A futile argument. Water under the bridge.

  • News: 6 reasons why Vista is good for gaming

    1. DirectX 10. Without a doubt, Vista's support for DirectX 10 is the primary reason why gaming in the Windows environment will transcend gamers' wildest dreams and far exceed the visual quality of even the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. "When DX10 games come out, the end result will be a significant increase in visual fidelity," said Microsoft's Donahue.

  • News: 3 reasons Vista lets down gamers

    It's no huge surprise to anyone that the upgrade to Windows Vista has created numerous instances of driver incompatibility and dissatisfaction - these kinds of issues arise whenever there's a major operating system upgrade. What has been surprising is the frustrations gamers have experienced in getting their existing hardware - 3D graphics cards and the like - to work with their existing games library in Windows Vista at the same performance levels as in Windows XP. The internet is rife with reports of games such as World of Warcraft and F.E.A.R. running at 20 percent to 40 percent slower frame rates.

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