Creative marches on the lounge

Creative has launched a high-end speaker system equally at home on DVD players and games consoles as on your PC. The Inspire 5.1 digital 5700 speaker system features a 30W SLAM (Symmetrically Loaded Acoustic Module) reinforced, dual chamber subwoofer that adds richness and depth to your audio. ...more

iTunes five times more popular than Napster

Apple has released its latest figures from the iTunes Music Store, claiming that it sold five times as many songs as Napster during the latter's first week of trading. While Napster sold 300,000 tracks, iTMS shifted some 1.5 million, according to figures from Apple. ...more

ATi tops out X800 line with X850 XT PE

Graphics specialist ATi has launched a new member of its Radeon series of graphics processors. Squaring up to Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra, the Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition replaces the X800XT at the top of ATi's product tree. The X850XT PE has the same 16 pixel pipeline, 6 vertex shader architecture as the X800XT, but it has quite a different form. ...more

Demon and Virgin drop broadband set up fees till April

Demon Internet and Virgin.net are the latest ISPs to take advantage of temporary BT price cuts and waived their set up fees for broadband installation until March 31st. The move follows BT's decision in December to halve the broadband installation costs from ?50 to ?25 between January 10th and the end of March. ...more

HP's erstwhile chairman brought to book

HP's erstwhile chairman Patricia Dunn has been formally booked under four counts of felony. Dunn resigned under the dark cloud of a spying scandal when it emerged that HP chiefs had hired companies that used legally dubious methods to spy on members of the media and its own board in order to track down a leak of confidential information. She appeared at a Santa Clara County court yesterday for a brief hearing before continuing to the sheriff's office to be booked. ...more