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  • 15 May 2006

  • News: eBay wins Supreme Court backing

    The US Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision to stop eBay from using a prominent feature on its website because of a patent dispute, according to reports.

  • News: Hitachi hard drive goes perpendicular

    Hitachi has released a laptop hard drive using perpendicular recording technology. The Travelstar 5K160, like Seagate's Momentus 5400, spins at 5400rpm and has a 160GB capacity.

  • News: iPod mobile phone plans in doubt

    Apple and Softbank, Japan's third-largest mobile carrier, have reached a basic agreement to develop mobile phones that can play songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store.

  • News: Email 'bomber' will face retrial

    A teenager who crashed a former employer's server by sending a torrent of junk email, a practice known as mail-bombing, could yet face up to five years in prison after the case was sent back to trial.

  • News: Treo 700p combines Palm OS, EvDO

    Palm today announced the Treo 700p smartphone, the second of four devices the company will launch this year.

  • News: MTV Urges users to drop iTunes

    Microsoft is set to support the latest attempt to prize away control of the digital music market from iTunes, MTV's Urge.

  • News: Search engines 'point to malicious sites'

    Search engines deliver links to dangerous websites that download spyware and adware to visitors' PCs, exploit security vulnerabilities and attempt to scam users and include them in spam lists, a study has found.

  • News: Elaborate chip fraud unravels

    Last week's firing of a prominent Chinese academic for faking the development of one of China's best-known chips is an embarrassing setback for a government that sees high-tech R&D as key to the country's economic future.

  • News: Symantec considering Gdrive alternative

    Symantec is toying with the idea of delivering a service that would allow users to automatically back up digital files to the web, according to Symantec chairman John Thompson.

  • News: Court asked to extend MS antitrust judgment

    The US DoJ (Department of Justice) asked a judge last week to extend for at least two years parts of an antitrust order for Microsoft because of the company's delays in supplying technical documentation to licensees of its communications protocols.

  • News: Microsoft beta tests Dreamweaver rival

    Developers will today get their first chance to play with a web-layout and -design tool Microsoft hopes will lure developers from Adobe's Dreamweaver.

  • 14 May 2006

  • News: RFID privacy issue solved by simple idea?

    An IBM researcher has developed an RFID chip with a perforated edge that allows consumers to tear off a part of the antenna and immediately reduce the distance of the signal after purchase.

  • 13 May 2006

  • News: Blu-ray Disk Association feeling confident

    The Blu-ray Disk Association believes it will win the next-generation DVD battle against rival format HD-DVD.

  • 12 May 2006

  • News: Consumers question copyright laws

    A recent survey claims 55 percent of UK consumers have ripped CDs they legally own to their iPod or computer.

  • News: Google Mini launches

    Google Mini, an integrated hardware and software search appliance, has launched in the UK. The device delivers search across a company's intranet or public website.

  • News: Sony brings remote TV to Macs and mobiles

    Sony will unveil software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macintosh computers and a wider range of mobile devices.

  • News: Researcher sacked for faking chip development

    A university in Shanghai has fired the dean of its microelectronics school for faking the development of a series of digital signal processors, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today.

  • News: Shareholders question Google's Chinese policy

    The furore over Google's censored Chinese search engine followed its top executives to the company's annual shareholder meeting yesterday when an Amnesty International representative took them to task over the issue.

  • News: RIM to launch BlackBerry in China

    Research in Motion will launch its popular BlackBerry service in China, the company officially announced yesterday.

  • News: Microsoft 'not gunning for Google'

    Steve Ballmer played down his company's rivalry with Google yesterday, saying Microsoft is more focused on creating content and services that will attract advertising money.

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