Web porn rip-off merchants fined

Owners of an adult Web site have been ordered by the courts to pay over ?20 million for unauthorised charges to credit cards. The Californian operation was found to have been charging the credit cards of people who did not even have a computer, let alone Internet access. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought Dennis Rappaport; Kenneth and Teresa Traves of Malibu, California and their companies JK Publications Inc. ...more

Nokia, Intel partner to push forward WiMax

Nokia, the world's biggest manufacturer of mobile phones and chip giant Intel have partnered to promote the development of WiMax - the new high-speed wireless broadband technology tipped to supercede today's 802.11x WiFi technology in major cities in the next few years. The two companies say they will work together on a range of mobile WiMax technologies based around the emerging IEEE 802. ...more

Traxdata go mStation mad!

A new range of products from media specialists Traxdata will have fans of MP3 players and multimedia hardware drooling with anticipation. The mStation brand features an in-car MP3 player, an MP3 player that can be plugged into your PC via a docking bay and a portable Digital Audio jukebox. The mStation in-car option can store over 3,000 music tracks and features a dashboard mounted controller and the in-car audio unit, which can be stored in the boot like a CD multichanger. ...more

Sandisk intros 8GB MP3 player

SanDisk Corporation has introduced in the States what is claimed to be the world's largest capacity flash-based MP3 player. The Sansa e280 is equipped with 8GB of flash memory as standard. For those who feel they need to put multiple versions of Wagner's Ring cycle on their MP3 player there is also a microSD expansion slot option to plug in up to 2GB of extra memory through a microSD card providing up to 10GB of memory or approximately 2,500 tunes. ...more

Ricoh takes aim at inkjets with gel technology

Ricoh has demonstrated a new printing technology that could provide a new middle ground between consumer inkjet printers and workgroup lasers. Ricoh's GelSprinter technology uses pigment-based gel instead of more viscous ink, but while the new printers look and sound like inkjets, Ricoh claims that its printers will deliver a laser-like 29ppm in both mono and colour modes. The most basic model, the GX3000, will cost ?128 (?150 inc VAT), which is cheap indeed for a colour printer capable of 29ppm at default quality settings. ...more