PDA shipments triple across Europe

Mobile device shipments nearly tripled across Europe in the first half of the year according to analysts Canalys. According to the company, volumes of smart phones and wireless handhelds rose 170 per cent year on year in EMEA to 9.6m. ...more

HP and Phillips announce DVD plans

Two members of the DVD+RW Alliance have announced their plans to add DVD-R capability to their existing DVD-RW products. The DVD+RW Alliance is a consortium of companies with interests in DVD+RW that includes Hewlett Packard, Phillips, Sony, Verbatim, Ricoh and Yamaha. The group announced that the addition of write-once (DVD-R) capabilities to its DVD-RW products has been slated for introduction by this summer. ...more

BT/Yahoo to join 1Mbit party

BT Retail and Yahoo!'s joint broadband offering will be available at 1Mbit later this month. Rival ISPs have been offering the service for more than a month. Pricing will be at around the same level as competitors' when BT and Yahoo formally announce the service next week. ...more

BT denies claims it is planning free 'dial-up' broadband

BT has denied claims by a Sunday newspaper that it is planning to introduce free 'dial-up' broadband when it switches on its 21st Century Network (21CN) in 2008, a year earlier than planned. The Mail on Sunday had claimed that a 'senior company source' within BT said that 21CN will provide for a broadband dialtone that will allow broadband users to connect simply by plugging into a phone line. This could remove the need for new users to cough up the ?58 activation fee and would allow occasional Internet users - those who dial-up to check their email - to upgrade to broadband on a true pay-as-you-go basis and without the additional expense. ...more

Price Check: PC processors

Processors worthy of your pounds. Buying a new processor is one of the easiest upgrades you can do (providing it fits your motherboard). With processors taking ever greater strides forward in speed increases, and introducing new technologies such as Hyper-Threading, the processor you bought last year as the Ferrari of chips may now look more familiar to the Massey Ferguson marque. ...more