Muso-mobiles cool on WMA, hot on iPod

The success of the iPod is, it seems, having an impact on other portable devices, notably mobile phones. New phones announced this week by Nokia and Sony Ericsson are noticeable for the fact that their integrated music players will play all the iPod-friendly formats - MP3, M4A and AAC - but not Microsoft's proprietary WMA. Now, if you had asked us 18 months ago, we would have pessimistically projected that WMA was ultimately destined to usurp MP3's position at the top of the digital music pile. ...more

Native Win32 and .Net framework support for new Delphi

Delphi, the grand-daddy of visual programming environments has been updated by Borland. Delphi 2005 works with both Win32 and .Net frameworks, and also supports Microsoft's C# as well as the Delphi language itself, which is based on Object Pascal. ...more

And also today (14-Feb-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Microcrosoft investigated Microsoft is co-operating with a US Justice Department investigation into its investment in Corel. "We are complying and cooperating with the government to provide them with any information they need and request," a Microsoft spokesperson told Reuters. ...more

UPDATED: BT sets stage for broadband price cuts

BT has begun a significant overhaul of its broadband pricing structure which should result in more competition, lower prices and a wider variety of services. The telco is planning to cut the cost of Local Loop Unbundling by up to 70 per cent, whilst realigning the costs for its Datastream and IPStream broadband services. As well as enabling ISPs to increase the number of different ADSL packages they offer - in terms of bandwidth, contention ratios and maximum traffic capacity - it will create scope for price cuts, most notably at faster speeds. ...more

English culture to go online

If the Millennium Dome wasn't enough, the Labour government plans to put the best of British culture onto a website. Culture Secretary Chris Smith told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton that the new website would feature theatre workshops with famous actors, give virtual tours of great museums and even be an aid to learning a musical instrument. He even gave the Culture Online website a backhanded compliment by calling it the "Channel 4 of the Internet". ...more