Archive for February, 2008

22 Feb

Google brings advertising to YouTube videos

Ever since Google added [...]

22 Feb

UK Government steps up anti-piracy rhetoric

The UK Government has said it will move to begin prosecuting ISPs if they do not come up with a solution to curb illegal downloading over their networks before April 2009.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has told the [...]

21 Feb

HD DVD not yet dead in laptops?

According to Toshiba, it is undecided what to do about HD DVD drives in notebooks. TechRadar attended Toshiba’s UK press launch in lovely Hertfordshire this morning and found that [...]

21 Feb

MySpace in talks over free music service

According to the Financial Times, MySpace is in talks with the major record labels with a view to launching its own music downloads service.
MySpace, which is owned by Rupert [...]

21 Feb

Latest Vista update disabling PCs

Microsoft has made its Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 for Windows XP available for public download after three weeks in the hands of invite-only beta testers.
Windows users who [...]

20 Feb

BBC embraces peer-to-peer downloading

The P2P-Next project is a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, including the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union and other research groups, examining the potential uses of peer-to-peer [...]

20 Feb

UK consumer group slams Apple, Microsoft

The National Consumer Council (NCC) has referred 17 software manufacturers to the Office of Fair Trading following an [...]

20 Feb

Voice recognition traps benefit scammers

Harrow Council has saved some £330,000 by using voice recognition technology to root out benefit cheats.
The Voice Risk Analysis technology detects stress patterns in people’s voices, recognising hesitation and [...]

19 Feb

BBC shows now available on iTunes

As we predicted last week, you can now buy and download BBC shows like Torchwood, Life On Mars, Little Britain, Spooks, and Robin Hood through the iTunes Store.
Available as of today, the selection of BBC TV programmes will cost £1.89 per episode. The shows can be viewed on a Mac or PC, a video-equipped [...]

19 Feb

HP’s secret ultra-mobile PC plans exposed

Many computer manufacturers viewed the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) as just another gimmick that would have very little practical significance in the marketplace when it was first announced. But tiny [...]

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