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RSS music in newsISPs join file sharing crackdown
News ISPs are obliged to work with the music industry and rights' holders to bring about a "significant reduction" in illegal file sharing through education and by developing legal online services. Taylor said the agreement will also pave the way for... [24 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News Soon, the 500GB hard drive that comes as standard on most home computers today won't even be big enough to store and organise the amount of digital music, video and photography that users are accumulating as part of the emerging "terabyte lifestyle". [21 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News RIM has peppered its smart phones, already popular with executives, with video cameras and music players to lure more retail customers, and now about 40 per cent of its 16 million users are either small and medium businesses or consumers. [16 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News This could be music to the ears of those who have criticised Redmond's approach of putting everything into Windows so other players offering services didn't get a look in. What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy... [07 Jul 2008]
IT teacher applications continue to decline
News Music, Spanish, drama, home economics and social studies are the only subjects showing increased numbers of applicants. The number of students applying to start postgraduate teacher training courses in IT this academic year continues to slide. [01 Jul 2008]
Mobile payments to hit $300bn by 2013
News The gross transaction value of payments made via mobiles for digital goods, such as music, tickets and games, and physical items such as books, will exceed $300bn per year globally by 2013, according to the report. [01 Jul 2008]
ISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News The government has renewed its threat to introduce laws to force ISPs to control online music and film piracy and file-sharing. Virgin Media recently became the first ISP to voluntarily address the problem of file sharing by agreeing to send out... [18 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3... [16 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Back-up issues: Around three per cent of machines operate Apple iTunes which hinders daily back-up as more music files are added. Viruses, dodgy printers, unsupported open source software and iTunes are all among the 10 most common tech problems... [29 May 2008]
'Hyperconnected' world grabs mobile over wallet
News More than one-third of workers would choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24 hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found. [14 May 2008]
Brits want ASBOs for rude mobile users
News Music blaring out of mobiles and conversations so loud that everyone in the train carriage is forced to listen are just two of the mobile habits that are getting on the UK's wick. A survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found the top five pet hates... [09 May 2008]
Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod
News The company blamed the slide in its gross margin on lower sales of its Leopard operating system, a price cut on low-end iPod shuffles, and higher sales at its iTunes online music and movies store, which runs at break-even or slightly profitable. [24 Apr 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News In this respect, Jones said cyber crime can be a barometer of social dissatisfaction - pointing to illegal music downloads as an example of younger generations' mass dissatisfaction with restrictive digital distribution models. [23 Apr 2008]
Ofcom - high-fibre diet ordered for Broadband Britain
News The speed offered by fibre optic cable - up to 100Mb - is much faster than broadband speeds of existing copper networks, and is able to deal with multiple high-definition video streams and near-instant music downloads. [16 Apr 2008]
Tesco to launch iTunes challenger
News Tesco is launching an online music service next month with more than three million tracks available to download and more content to follow. No details of pricing are yet available but Tesco says it plans to offer "variable pricing" on albums and... [15 Apr 2008]
