Intel waving not drowning, in new digital wave

The "next wave of computing" is upon us, according to one of Intel's main men, and Intel is positioning itself to ride the huge "digital wave" of increasingly smart media. Speaking at his first European press briefing for a couple of years, the Intel Executive Vice President and the General Manager of Intel's Architecture Group was spelling out the chip giant's view of how it is and how it should be. Digital wave Stressing commitment to developing the PC platform - "we are not in a post-PC world" - Otellini identified three major stages to the growth of PCs over the last twenty years. ...more

Board of Letsbuyit.com resigns

The board of co-operative buying site Letsbuyit.com resigned Wednesday, leading to fears that the innovative shopping site will be forced to close. The Dutch site, which operates in 14 European countries, is facing insolvency proceedings and is currently being run by court-appointed administrators Paul R. ...more

Highest court lets it lie for AOL

The US Supreme Court has refused to revive a lawsuit against America Online brought by subscribers. AOL was accused of imposing unjust charges and failing to protect customer privacy. According to a report in USA Today, the court turned down, without comment, the subscribers' argument that AOL should be considered a ''common carrier'' that can be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. ...more

Apple dishes out iPod plunder for 500,000,000th iTunes download

Half a billion and counting. Apple has notched up the 500,000,000th download from its iTunes Music Store and a woman from Indiana is the very lucky recipient of a big iPod prize bundle. Earlier this month Apple announced it would mark the milestone with a big give away and one Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana scooped the 10 iPods, the Gold 10,000-song Gift Card for the iTMS (and 10 additional 50-song gift cards to go with each iPod) and four tickets to see Coldplay on their current world tour. ...more

MP3.com founder back with new download music venture

Michael Robertson, the man behind MP3.com and Linspire (formerly Lindows) which arguably helped to kick off the whole downloadable music culture is set to launch a new digital music company called MP3tunes. The ambitious aim of MP3tunes is to offer new hardware software and a new online music store. ...more