Headphone styles affect your health

Two separate studies have found that the quality of headphones used with portable music players can have a significant impact on potential damage to hearing from prolonged listening. In one study, Cory Portnuff at the University of Colorado and Brian Fligor at Harvard Medical School discovered that supra-aural headphones - the kind that sit over the ear - produce slightly lower loudness than in-ear and canal headphones at the same volume setting. Their research led them to produce a table of maximum listening times, based on US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) damage-risk criteria. ...more

PC Pro website reporter wanted

PC Pro, the UK's biggest selling monthly computing magazine, is looking for a news journalist to work on its industry-leading website. We're looking for someone who can root out exclusive stories, find the angle that most appeals to our tech-literate readership, and write gripping headlines to entice readers to the website. The candidate must have the versatility and confidence to work across different mediums, including video, audio and the written word. ...more

Domain name is .1 for mobile phones

Paul Kane of the Group One Registry in London has proposed that .1 should become a new top-level domain. The reasoning behind the suggestion is that it will allow mobile phone numbers to become URLs so that every phone, PDA and Web-access device can be on the Net. ...more

Lik-Sang.com website shuts down

The Lik-Sang.com web site has closed its doors. The owners of the site which specialised in selling grey imports of Sony Playstation gear claim they have been forced out of business due to multiple Sony lawsuits. ...more

Legal music downloads boom

Music fans are increasingly turning away from illegal downloading from p2p sites and increasingly buying their music from legitimate music libraries. The number of music fans legally downloading digital music has grown by 75 per cent in a year. The figures, which come from the 2005 Digital Music Survey carried out by online music research specialists, Entertainment Media Research (EMR), will come as a relief to the music industry which has been pleading poverty over the past few years as it saw spiralling numbers of downloads taking place via p2p networks like Kazaa. ...more