AOL targets AIM add-on

An Open Source project to support instant messaging is the target of a legal attack from AOL. phpAIM is a php-based interface to AOL's Instant Messaging service. It's a project hosted by SourceForge. ...more

RealNetworks issues first fruit of Helix

RealNetworks has made its Helix DNA Client code available to the Helix Community Hoping to stimulate new uses and applications for its multimedia solutions, RealNetworks has today offered up the code to the core engine behind RealOne Player to developers. With the Helix DNA Client, developers can create applications on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms, and support a wide range of media formats, including MPEG-4, MP3, H.263 and 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project). ...more

Nokia rings up profit

The Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia has seen profits by more than fifty per cent. For its full financial year it reported profits increasing by 54 per cent, to ?2.17bn (€3. ...more

MSN closes chat rooms (sort of)

As promised MSN has closed the chatrooms in the UK as of today. Users wishing to chat via www.msn. ...more

Xbox price slash for Europe

Microsoft has just confirmed that the price of its console is about to fall by ?100, with full compensation for those who bought at the original price. Microsoft - reports our sister publication Computer and Video Games - is to drop the price of Xbox in Europe by ?100 to ?199 on April 26, less than six weeks after the launch of the machine. Slow pan-European sales prompted calls from industry leaders in the last week to drop the price immediately. ...more