BT to trial 'self-install' ADSL

BT is to undertake trials of self-install ADSL, starting at the end of July. Self-install ADSL will mean that BT will no longer have to send an engineer to the customer's premises, which means the company, "will obviously save time and money - as will the customer", it said in statement. Self-install may be as simple as plugging a 'widget' into an existing phone socket. ...more

Consumers' Association accuses UK iTunes of overcharging

The Consumers' Association has asked the Office of Fair Trading to investigate whether Apple may be guilty of anti-competitive practices with the UK prices on the iTunes Music Store. In the UK iTunes charges 79p which corresponds to around €1.20. ...more

Researchers pack terabyte of data on CD-sized disk

Scientists at Imperial College London have invented a new optical disk format that could enable 1,000GB, a terabyte, to be stored on a CD-sized disk. By varying the angle at which the disk reflects light from a drive's laser, the MODS - multiplexed optical data storage - system can store one of 332 different data signals where a CD or DVD can only store two. Imperial College's Peter T?r?k said that although the entire Simpsons back catalogue could be stored on a single disk, the technology is more likely to find a home in places that need to store vast amounts of data, such as libraries. ...more

FTP man fetches $500,000 in TV quiz

You can't make this stuff up. Jim Matthews, author of the Mac FTP client Fetch, won $500,000 on the US-edition of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" He answered the questions without using his lifelines until the very end. On the last question he asked the audience, but he was unsure of their answer and took the half million. ...more

Nvidia unveils its fastest ever mobile GPU

Chip builder Nvidia has introduced what it claims is the world's fastest GPU for notebooks, the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. Although not generally known for use as high performance games machines, notebooks using the Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU support Nvidia's range of visual technologies aimed at the gamer including Shader Model 3.0 and PureVideo Technology. ...more