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  • 04 April 2007

  • News: Google hunts down runaway snake

    Employees at Google's New York offices can rest easier now that Kaiser, a 3-foot-long ball python, has been captured after disappearing from his tank on Sunday, a Google spokeswoman said yesterday.

  • News: Apple backed by DRM-free competitors

    While EMI's Monday event announcing the coming availability of DRM-free digital music focused on the iTunes Store, that won't be the only online service to benefit from the record label's new policy.

  • News: DRM-free iTunes to revolutionise music

    News of a pending announcement was buried among the April Fools Day fake stories on the techie Web sites. EMI, the world's third largest music company, and Apple were going to hold a joint press conference in London on April 2. It turned out that the press conference was real but there still may be a joke in here for someone.

  • News: AJAX poses Web 2.0 security threat

    Many web applications written using the popular AJAX programming technique are vulnerable to a JavaScript hijacking attack, security company Fortify Software has claimed.

  • 03 April 2007

  • News: European commission signs up to BT

    The European Commission’s directorate general for IT has signed a framework contract with BT for the supply and management of internet access services.

  • News: Skype offers cut-price phone sex

    Skype is slashing the price of premium-rate phone calls made via its broadband-based calling service. From now on, anyone using its VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service to dial a UK number with an 09 prefix will be able to do so for less than if they dialled from a standard analogue landline.

  • News: Virgin Media launches free digital TV

    Virgin Media is to offer customers 40 free-to-air channels and 25 digital radio stations through a set-top box. However, the service is limited to those who sign up to a Virgin Media broadband package.

  • News: UFO hacker loses extradition appeal

    A British hacker who broke into US military computers looking for evidence of UFOs lost another extradition appeal on Tuesday in London's High Court.

  • News: Apple sued over UK iTunes pricing

    The European Commission (EC) has charged Apple’s iTunes store and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the Commission confirmed today.

  • News: Porn promise crashes magazine's server

    An influx of curious men, eager to get a glimpse of Australian model Lara Bingle in the buff, crashed the GQ Germany website after it published nude photos of the popular model.

  • 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.

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