One address fits all

UK trials of a technology that could replace all your phone and fax numbers, email addresses and instant messaging names with a single number will begin in November. ENUM technology works by mapping telephone numbers to Web addresses (URLs). Effectively your phone number is converted into a DNS (domain name system) address and this is then used to handle all your communications. ...more

Google pilots Click to Call service

In another of the seemingly endless flow of new initiatives, Google is quietly launching its click-to-call service. Imaginatively called 'Google Click to Call', it may go some way to explaining why the search engine was so keen to buy up bandwidth earlier this year. Click to Call is a service that allows advertisers - usually small local businesses to advertise online without actually having a web site to click through to. ...more

Fujitsu targets PC multimedia and television markets

Fujitsu has announced two new 22-inch TFT LCD displays, one aimed at PC multimedia work and the other at the television market. The PC multimedia version, the FLC56XWC8V (pictured), is an XGA (Extended VGA) display with a resolution of 1,280x768 and a pixel pitch of 0.375mm. ...more

Warner launches legal downloads on BitTorrent

Warner Brothers has become the first Hollywood studio to embrace the file sharing technology for the delivery of films and TV programming over the Internet. Starting this summer, the studio will use BitTorrent's peer-assisted technology platform to offer both video-on-demand (VOD) and electronic sell through (EST) content in the US simultaneously with the DVD release. The service will use BitTorrent's file-swarming technology, which enables the transfer of large files from a website to a computer with the speed and bandwidth efficiency of peer-assisted transfers. ...more

Apple puts YouTube on TV

Apple has announced that from the middle of June Apple TV owners will be able to stream YouTube videos to their television set. The company said that thousands of the most current and popular YouTube videos will be available on Apple TV at launch, with the Google-owned video website adding thousands more each week through to the autumn, by which time all its videos will be available. Using the Apple Remote, Apple TV users can navigate YouTube's video browsing categories or search for specific videos. ...more