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  • 16 April 2007

  • News: Asustek launches £100 PC

    Asustek plans to launch a series of low-cost PCs later this year aimed at developing nations.

  • News: Google beats Yahoo & Microsoft to Doubleclick

    Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $3.1bn in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

  • News: Wikis, blogs, RSS aim for the workplace

    As businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, web mashups, syndicated feeds and blogs, the Web 2.0 Expo opened on Sunday in San Francisco with a gaggle of vendors betting these internet tools belong in the workplace.

  • News: Adobe Media Player preview on show

    Adobe has developed its first desktop media player and plans to give the industry an early peek at it at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week.

  • News: Microsoft's Silverlight takes on Adobe's Flash

    Microsoft will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web this week as part of a broader strategy to go head to head with web and design tools powerhouse Adobe.

  • 14 April 2007

  • News: The 20 worst technologies of all time

    If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't - and some fail spectacularly.

  • News: iPod's dominance is only just beginning

    Generally, Apple has very little use for anniversaries. Recent milestones - like 2006's 30th anniversary of the company's founding, the Mac's 20th anniversary in 2004, and the iPod's fifth anniversary last autumn - passed without much official to-do from the company. But when Apple sold its 100 millionth iPod last week, the company made sure not to let the occasion go by without comment.

  • News: MSN, AOL & Joost to get CBS shows

    CBS will distribute its television programmes more widely over the internet, adding new deals with Joost – the service from the founders of Skype - Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube.

  • News: Linux virus targets iPods

    As threats go this one is very small but the target happens to be one of the biggest in the digital world - someone has finally got round to writing an iPod virus.

  • 13 April 2007

  • News: Google Checkout comes to the UK

    Google has opened its Checkout online payment processing service to retailers in the UK, the first time it has been available to businesses outside the US.

  • News: iTunes subscriptions could be forced on Apple

    Macworld reports that the world's top music labels want to force Apple to launch subscription-based iTunes music services.

  • News: Google takes on PayPal

    Watch out PayPal and eBay… there's a Google about. The online search and advertising giant opened its Checkout online payment processing service to retailers in the UK today, the first time it has been available to businesses outside the US.

  • 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: 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.

  • 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: 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.

  • 12 April 2007

  • 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: Linux USB stick can replace Windows

    Now the geeks can have a full-featured Linux OS booted from a USB stick or thumb drive. Linux distributor Mandriva's Flash 4GB provides Mandriva Linux 2007 KDE 32bit, which needs no installation - being ready to boot off the USB 2.0 stick. Plug in the stick, turn on the PC, and Mandriva Linux is ready to use in a few seconds.

  • News: UK mobile phone ticketing breakthrough

    Chiltern Railways has installed self-service scanners to read mobile tickets sent as barcodes to passengers' phones in the second phase of a pilot project.

  • News: MySpace blocks users' Photobucket content

    Web mashups are all the rage, but sometimes they enrage, as evidenced by a spat between social-networking firm MySpace and Photobucket, which runs an eponymous photo and video sharing site.

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