Friends Reunited geared for telly debut

ITV is turning the Friends Reunited website that it bought last year into a TV show. For television, the site will be turned into a show called The School Run, where old schoolmates will be reunited to compete in a trivia quiz. It will be shown on the new ITV Play channel, a Freeview channel that will be broadcast on the Internet from next month, and later on cable and satellite. ...more

Canon bubbles over with five new printers

Canon has revamped its Bubble Jet printer line-up with the announcement of five new models, ranging in price from ?79 to ?289. Two of the printers are aimed squarely at home users, the ?79 i455 and the ?149 i475. Both four-colour printers support the new PictBridge technology, which enables similarly-equipped digital cameras from any manufacturer to output directly to the printer without having to go via a PC. ...more

The swift sword of cyber justice

Small claims court goes online. Not so much Jarndyce versus Jarndyce as V.90 versus V. ...more

Final call for old numbers

Well, if you've so far managed to ignore the Big Number campaign and carried on life using the old mobile numbers that have been kept on, it's time to wake up and smell the digits, because, as of Saturday, they'll all be switched off. Old numbers for mobiles and pagers have been kept on, running alongside the new numbers since the campaign began in September 1999. However, users trying to dial outdated numbers after Saturday will not be connected and receive a recorded message. ...more

AMD set to launch its new 400MHz FSB Athlon XP processors

AMD is set to launch its new 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) Athlon XP processors in mid-May, shortly before rival Intel adds the top-end 3.2GHz Pentium 4 processor into its product line on May 21, motherboard makers have revealed. AMD's upcoming Barton-core, 400MHz FSB-based offerings consist of two models - the Athlon XP 3000+ and Athlon XP 3200+. ...more