cashmanToshiba are to cut the estimated year end estimated sales of HD-DVD players by 44% it has emerged, lowering sales expectations from 1.8million standalone devices to 1 million in the US. Speaking about the impact... More...
The launch of the DRM-free music store from Apple has been overshadowed by news that tracks purchased from the store contain information of who bought the songs embedded into the files. Some fear that should... More...
Total online spending by British shoppers has hit £100 billion, research shows. This figure dates back to April 1995 when e-retail first launched, according to the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG). Britons spent £3.465... More...
Sony has announced that the launch of the PlayStation 3 has contributed to a 68 per cent drop in operating profits to JPY 71.8 billion (EUR 438.3 million) for the year ended March 31, compared... More...
With the one month anniversary of the PS3's contribution to Folding@Home it has now been announced that any one moment Folding@Home is producing 700 Teraflops of processing power, 400 of which is currently contributed by... More...
The European Union has launched a probe into the pricing of iTunes music service. The probe comes after UK consumer group Which? noted that users in the UK had to pay higher prices than people... More...
A London man has lost his High Court Fight against extradition to the US. He allegedly carried out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining... More...
In a shock move Toshiba have slashed the price of many of their HD-DVD players in the US, effective immediately. They labelled the move a "strategic action". The reduction sees its entry level player priced... More...
Analysts IDC have said that by 2011 laptops will outsell desktop computers as portable machines become quicker and more efficient. The report predicts that laptop sales will grow 16.1% year-on-year until 2011, compared to 3.8%... More...
Rumours speculating that the Beatles back catalogue would be soon made available have been quashed by record company EMI. Currently Beatles songs aren't available for download on websites such as iTunes and Napster. The Beatles... More...
A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. While it is not a commercial release it does pave the way to... More...
Apple's iPod Shuffle has gone through a few changes recently, now the miniscule mp3 player has four new colours added to its original silver chassis. Now available from the Apple store are 1GB versions of... More...
Sony's net profits for the three months to 31 December fell to 159.9bn yen ($1.3bn; £669m) from 168.9bn yen the three months before, a drop in 5.3%. The huge losses were down to the gaming... More...
Details of the European PS3 launch have been officially unveiled by Sony. The console will only be available in the premium 60GB model at launch, and will retail for 599EUR and 425GBP. Sony expects that... More...
Macworld is going on right now, and Apple's biggest announcement of the day so far has been the introduction of the iPhone. Steve Jobs describes the iPhone as "having your life in your pocket". The... More...