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  • 12 February 2007

  • News: PS3 & Wii sales drop again in Japan

    Sales of the PlayStation 3 and Wii consoles dropped for the fourth straight week in Japan, according to new figures.

  • News: Intel builds 80-core processor

    Following the jump from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflop (trillions of floating point operations per second) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip.

  • News: Yahoo & LG partner for mobile search

    Yahoo has reached a deal with LG Electronics that should see its "Go" mobile platform on the screens of tens of millions of LG mobile phone handsets shipped later this year.

  • News: Samsung shows thinnest mobile phone

    Samsung Electronics is setting out to impress at this week's 3GSM trade show in Barcelona by unveiling what it said is the slimmest mobile phone handset in the world. The phone is one of four new handsets that refresh the company's Ultra line of phones that was first unveiled about eight months ago.

  • News: Vodafone to acquire Indian operator

    Vodafone will acquire a majority stake in Hutchison Essar, winning a heated bid for control of the Indian mobile services operator.

  • News: Report: Apple's Jobs backdated Pixar options

    New allegations have surfaced that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was involved in backdating stock-option grants improperly while chairman of the animated movie studio Pixar.

  • News: Warner chief slams Jobs' DRM fight

    Warner Music chief executive Edgar Bronfman has rejected in no uncertain terms Apple chief executive Steve Jobs' suggestion last week that the major music label companies should abandon digital tunes copy protection.

  • 11 February 2007

  • News: Ericsson offers home GSM, Wi-Fi base station

    Ericsson has introduced an access point designed to let users improve the quality of mobile phone calls made in their homes.

  • 10 February 2007

  • News: Analysis: the future of processors

    Multicore technology, which allows one processor to work on many tasks at the same time, is just getting started. Within a couple of years, the quad-core chips Intel has just launched will feel quaint. Intel microprocessor expert Jerry Bautista says he's built chips with eight cores: "Up to eight works well for productivity applications. But thousands of cores are possible. The trick is finding what's practical."

  • News: Analysis: the future of entertainment PCs

    All the TV, music and movies you want are coming soon to a PC near you – whenever you desire and wherever you are. But the revolution in digital entertainment will not be televised, it will be podcast, streamed, downloaded, shared and available on screens from 2in to 200in.

  • News: Analysis: the future of operating systems

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said that the company "won't ever take five years to develop another version of Windows". If this is true, and if the time between previous major consumer versions of Windows is any gauge, it places the successor to Windows Vista, code-named Vienna, on course for a 2010 or 2011 release.

  • News: Analysis: the future of screens & graphics

    By the end of 2007, widescreen monitors will be on 20 percent of desktops, according to Chris Connery of DisplaySearch. The other big trend is set to be bigger, brighter and cheaper LCDs.

  • News: Analysis: the future of desktop PCs

    The computer of tomorrow will face more competition than ever to win a place on your desk. But that doesn’t mean the traditional PC will wither away into irrelevance – far from it.

  • News: Analysis: the future of storage

    Hitachi senior vice-president Bill Healy says that if current trends continue, by 2025 a standard 3.5in hard drive could contain up to 20TB (terabytes) of your data. Well that's if any manufacturer will still bother to make models in this format.

  • News: Analysis: the future of technology revealed

    Where will you be in five years? More importantly, where will our PCs be? In the first of a series revealing the future of technology we pull out our crystal ball – with a little help from a raft of experts from the industry’s biggest players

  • News: iPod support becoming a must for cars

    iPod connectivity is becoming de rigeur in new vehicles across multiple automobile markets and territories.

  • 09 February 2007

  • News: Vodafone UK launches YouTube mobile

    In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone has announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube.

  • News: Redten runs out of 'free' PCs

    Redten Internet has called a halt to its offer of a free Vista PC for customers who signed up for three years of broadband. A notice on the company's website explains that the firm has run out of free PCs, and that the deal has therefore been suspended temporarily.

  • News: Report: EMI may ditch DRM

    The major UK music label EMI is preparing to sell music MP3s online without DRM (digital rights management), according to reports

  • News: Flaw found in Firefox pop-up blocker

    A flaw in the pop-up blocker of the open-source browser Firefox could allow an attacker to access local files, according to security analysts

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