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  • 14 April 2007

  • 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.

  • News: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft upgrade Sitemap

    The rare collaboration between search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft over site maps has yielded its first result.

  • News: Google search boss 'punches' Microsoft exec

    Microsoft and Google officials have traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology conference in San Francisco.

  • News: Free Opera update available now

    Opera Software has released Opera 9.2, a new version of the company's free multiplatform web browser that's available for immediate download.

  • News: iTunes gets MGM movies

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Apple on have announced that MGM is now offering its movies for purchase and download from Apple’s iTunes Store in the US.

  • 11 April 2007

  • News: Wikipedia attacked by Larry Sanger

    The education secretary, Alan Johnson, has come under fire for saying the Wikipedia is 'a force for good'. The site's own co-founder, Larry Sanger, said that the community that produces Wikipedia was "often dysfunctional", the content was unreliable and that Wikipedia had serious management problems.

  • News: Microsoft investigates Office 2007 flaws

    Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2007, and other software. Hackers have not yet exploited the Word 2007 flaws, however.

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