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  • 03 April 2007

  • News: iTunes to reject DRM-free movies

    Apple chief executive Steve Jobs may be pushing for music labels to lift copyright protection on digital music but he doesn't appear so eager to do the same for video content, despite his position as the largest shareholder in Walt Disney.

  • News: Windows Vista 'SP1 patches' posted online

    More than 100 Windows Vista fixes have been posted online by a blogger, who claims the fixes will be included in Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1). Vista SP1 will be Microsoft's first major update to its latest Windows operating system.

  • News: Lycos takes on Google, Yahoo & MSN

    Lycos Europe is quietly rolling out a service that wraps together several trendy functions it hopes will woo users for its convenience and simplicity.

  • News: IT sector boosts EU economy

    The IT sector accounted for nearly half of EU productivity growth between 2000 and 2004 and is still outstripping the rest of the economy, EU figures have revealed.

  • News: Online ads to overtake radio in 2008

    Online advertising is set to overtake radio next year - beating previous forecasts - media experts have predicted.

  • 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: 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: 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: 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.

  • 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.

  • 31 March 2007

  • News: Yahoo's Taiwanese blog assault approved

    A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan will not adversely affect competition in the local internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has ruled, paving the way for the completion of the deal.

  • News: Google TV under development in UK

    Google is coming to your television set. The web search giant is hiring a team of software engineers to develop products for television and is building a sales team that will secure advertising for Google's TV offerings

  • 30 March 2007

  • News: 'IE 7.0 beta 2' download virus hits inboxes

    A virus is doing the rounds disguised as a test version of Microsoft's current web browser Internet Explorer 7.0. If you get an email offering a download of IE 7.0 Beta 2, delete it.

  • News: Icann rejects '.xxx' sex domain name – again

    Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has rejected for the second time the creation of a ".xxx" top-level domain. The overseer of the internet's addressing system again voted against the proposal, which is seen by some as a way to isolate adult content on the internet.

  • News: IT fault means 400,000 UK workers don't get paid

    Problems with the Bacs clearing system have left up to 400,000 UK workers without their wages.

  • News: Microsoft previews Windows Mobile browser

    The latest entry in the growing mobile browser wars is Deepfish. Microsoft has announced a technology preview of the new mobile browser, which is designed for delivery of content such as web pages to Windows Mobile devices.

  • News: Experimental battery for $100 laptop

    For economic reasons, most of the components created for the One Laptop Per Child project’s $100 notebook computer are innovations on tried-and-true tech, not state-of-the-art. That is, except for one aspect of the device: how the laptop generates and stores power.

  • News: eEye fix released for Windows zero-day flaw

    Security vendor eEye Digital Security has released an unofficial fix for the unpatched flaw in Windows, currently being exploited by online criminals.

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