Freeserve bundle in broadband land

Freeserve and PC World have teamed up to offer cheap broandband, for a bit Customers buying an emachine computer from PC World, can tap into a special deal from Freeserve, bundling in the modem and microfilter for free and giving them broadband access for ?19.99 a month for half a year, and ?29.99 inc VAT thereafter. ...more

Yahoo! takes on Skype

The Yahoo! Internet portal is extending the use of its VoIP capacity built into its Instant Messenger product to take on Skype. The company says that within the next few days it will be debuting a new service 'Phone Out', with cheap call charges from computers to phones, and 'Phone In', a budget priced subscription service for phone callers to call computer users. Using the Phone Out service, calls to the US will cost $0. ...more

AMD tweaks pricing suggesting new launches

AMD has today rejigged its processor pricing, customarily an indication of new arrivals. Specifically, it has tweaked the pricing for its redesigned processor for notebooks, the Turion, as well as the Sempron and Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core. The biggest cut sees the top-of-the-range Model 40s cut by 25 per cent. ...more

Computer users warned over US daylight saving hours

Computer users are being warned to make sure that they are ready for a change in US daylight saving hours, to be introduced in 2007. A new energy bill passed by the US Congress and due to be signed by President Bush today will bring daylight saving - the equivalent of the UK's British Summer Time - forward by three weeks in order to cut energy consumption. Any programme or process that's set to begin at a certain time, may find itself running an hour late. ...more

UPDATED: Playfair cracks iTunes DRM protection

The digital rights management technology that Apple uses to restrict the copying of songs bought from its iTunes Music Store has been cracked. An anonymous programmer has released software called Playfair that takes one of the iTMS AAC files, decodes it using a key obtained from an iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It can also, if required, copy the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file. ...more