UK moves to regulate gambling ads

The government has produced a set of draft proposals that will regulate the content of adverts promoting gambling on television. Currently only the National Lottery is allowed to advertise itself on TV. However, from next year, online gambling sites and the new breed of Las Vegas-style casinos will be able to promote themselves - with certain restrictions. ...more

Sony digital cameras

Accentuate the positive, emulate the negative. Sony's latest additions to the CyberShot stable do far more than emulate their celluloid counterparts, but include technology that adds flexibility that a film camera can only dream of. The DSC-P31, DSC-P51 and the DSC-P71 boast CCDs of 2. ...more

Intel eyes increased stake in Nvidia - report

Intel is considering increasing its stake in graphics technology company Nvidia, in order to counter the proposed merger of AMD and ATI, according to a report by Digitimes. The chip maker's share price rose by eight per cent on Wednesday on the back of speculation that it may attempt to acquire Nvidia. Intel currently owns around nine per cent of the company's stock. ...more

AMD and Apple lead market gloom over tech stocks.

Stock exchanges around the world reeled at the news of a number of profit warnings from major high-tech firms such as AMD and Apple. Japan's Nikkei index closed almost 3.5 per cent down. ...more

Data withstands even the heaviest human touch

A data recovery company has revealed it has been contacted by desperate customers that have thrown their hard drives in the freezer and had laptops run over by aircraft. Ontrack Data published its list of the ten most bizarre requests it has had this year to recover data from seemingly terminal situations. In each case the company retrieved the valuable information, but points out that the human touch is increasingly proving the driving factor behind data losses. ...more