Reviewed: Sony Vaio TP2 media PC

While the fabled ‘digital home’ is still yet to materialise in any meaningful way, it’s certainly a lot closer now than it was five years ago.

Media streamers that wirelessly stream music and movies from your PC onto your living room television, are now widely available.

And some people think that the next step is for people to embrace the standalone media PC. It sits under your TV like a games console or a DVD player – except it’s a fully fledged computer running Windows Vista.

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

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BT, Virgin Media starts web co-op

ISPs are tired of not receiving their share of the revenue generated by online ads. Now BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media - representing more than two-thirds of the UK ISP market - have decided to do something about it.

Phorm is a new type of online co-op, where ISPs can team up to try and grab some of the money made from online advertising too. As it stands, most online ad revenue goes straight to those selling web advertising - to search engines and web portals such as Google, Microsoft/MSN and Yahoo.

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

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