Ofcom leans on BT line rental pricing

Ofcom has proposed a lower ceiling charge for BT's line rental pricing, with regards to other phone companies. The wholesale price of renting the lines up to the properties from BT will now have an upper limit of ?8.39 a month for residential connections, and ?9. ...more

'iTV' becomes Apple TV

Apple has announced that its 'iTV' wireless television interface will be released in February under its new name - Apple TV. Apple TV lets users wirelessly stream all their iTunes content to a TV set, controlling playback with an enhanced version of the company's Front Row software using the Apple Remote from up to 9m away. The box - which resembles a Mac mini - has a 40GB hard drive (of which around 33GB can be used for content) to store up to 50 hours of video, 9,000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each. ...more

HP beefs up Integrity range

HP says that its new chipset that can increase the Integrity server's ability to handle complex workloads by up to 30 per cent using the same number of processors per machine. The company is also claiming that a new improved version of HP-UX, along with better management tools, will allow companies to get virtualisation projects up and running in less than half the time. The new chipset is being fitted in the cell-based HP Integrity rx7640, rx8640 and Superdome servers. ...more

Intel doubles its profits

Growth in market share has boosted Intel's fourth quarter financial results yet is still cautious about the future. The Santa Clara-based company reported net income of exactly $1bn, a 53 per cent increase on the previous quarter and a 108 per cent rise year-on-year. Earnings per share were $0. ...more

Record boss insists on iTunes price hike

And having driven a stake through the heart of file-sharing, record industry wants to leech iPod revenues The CEO of Warner Music has hit back Steve Jobs' jibe that record companies are being 'greedy' by demanding higher prices for music downloads. Edgar Bronfman said that the price of downloads should reflect the popularity of the artist and described Apple's one-price-fits-all approach as 'unfair'. 'There's no content that I know of that does not have variable pricing,' Bronfman said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. ...more