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  • Opinion: Official: "iPhone" is released

    The Apple iPhone rumour mill is working at full speed once again. Steve Jobs has previously denied any plans to launch a mobile phone and music player hybrid, but most speculators take everything he says with a pinch of salt.

  • Opinion: Official: "iPhone" is released

    The Apple iPhone rumour mill is working at full speed once again. Steve Jobs has previously denied any plans to launch a mobile phone and music player hybrid, but most speculators take everything he says with a pinch of salt.

  • Opinion: France rejects 'podcasting'

    French radio presenters have a problem with podcasting - but it's nothing to do with technology, bandwidth or copyright. No, the problem they have is with the word itself. 'Podcasting', you see, isn't French.

  • Opinion: Click here and say that

    Just because you're posting to a website, it doesn't mean that you can say just anything about anyone. Especially if you're not brave enough to give your real name.

  • Opinion: iPod more popular than Paris Hilton

    AOL has revealed that Apple’s iPod was the most searched-for term on its AOL Search and AOL Video Search tool during 2006.

  • Opinion: What YouTube can do for you

    Video-sharing phenomenon YouTube is no longer simply the destination for quirky clips. Make the most-hyped website of 2006 your most useful tool in 2007.

  • Opinion: What YouTube can do for you

    Video-sharing phenomenon YouTube is no longer simply the destination for quirky clips. Make the most-hyped website of 2006 your most useful tool in 2007.

  • Opinion: Understanding the Google Office

    I've started playing with Google's online office tool – Docs and Spreadsheets – today, and it's certainly a nifty little product.

  • Opinion: Understanding the Google Office

    I've started playing with Google's online office tool – Docs and Spreadsheets – today, and it's certainly a nifty little product.

  • Opinion: A decade of Hotmail

    In terms of IT anniversaries, it's hardly up there with 25 years of the IBM PC, 20 years of Windows or even five years of the iPod. But I've just received a press release announcing that MSN Hotmail is ten years old this month, and I'm a sucker for statistics, so here goes.

  • Opinion: A decade of Hotmail

    In terms of IT anniversaries, it's hardly up there with 25 years of the IBM PC, 20 years of Windows or even five years of the iPod. But I've just received a press release announcing that MSN Hotmail is ten years old this month, and I'm a sucker for statistics, so here goes.

  • Opinion: Quark slashes prices... by mistake

    A recent dip into my inbox made me think there was a mega pre-Christmas sale on at Quark. Alas not.

  • Opinion: IE7 already insecure

    It's safer, but security holes still affect the new browser.

  • Opinion: Google reaches for the Sky

    Here's some hot news. Google has amended its much-vaunted corporate philosophy. It now reads, 'Don't be evil, but do join forces with Rupert Murdoch's evil empire in pursuit of a fast buck'.

  • Opinion: iPod is a mans best friend

    Thwarted by DRM restrictions and the lack of a high-profile movie download store in the UK, the video iPod is generally regarded to have failed to live up to its promise (so far).

  • Opinion: iPod is a mans best friend

    Thwarted by DRM restrictions and the lack of a high-profile movie download store in the UK, the video iPod is generally regarded to have failed to live up to its promise (so far).

  • Opinion: Dealing with failed online purchases

    If you buy software on the internet and your browser or PC crashes during the transaction, don't panic. Losing the downloaded file or licence key, even months after buying the product when you come to reinstall it, is a common occurrence. Every online vendor should have procedures for dealing with this.

  • Opinion: Reader tip: access restore points from the Recovery Console

    Reader Simon Scott passed on this excellent tip to restore a Registry backup from a restore point using the XP recovery console. It is useful in recovering from a corrupted Registry that stops the PC booting even into safe mode.

  • Opinion: Don't get excited about movie downloads

    Given all the recent hullabaloo about digital movie downloads, you'd think Hollywood finally had embraced the Internet revolution.

  • Opinion: Sort and move files more easily

    Do you regularly need to organise and move a hodgepodge of files from place to place? Try FileSort.