Virgin Mobile to trial TV to mobile phone service

Mobile telco Virgin Mobile is the latest company to announce that it is to pilot a mobile phone TV service. The company has partnered with BT Livetime to develop the service that is being piloted to around 1,000 Virgin Mobile customers within the M25. The trial is to take place over a four-month period and will be broadcast over the DAB digital radio network. ...more

UK High Court frees BPI to pursue AllofMP3

The British recording industry, in the shape of the BPI, has the Russian downloads site AllofMP3.com in its legal sights. The British trade association has been granted permission by the UK High Court to serve legal proceedings in Russia against the controversial website. ...more

AOL drops US broadband customers

AOL is writing to to its broadband subscribers in nine states in the southern USA telling them that their service is being discontinued. The email says they must find another broadband carrier by 17 January otherwise their account will revert to dialup. The US's biggest ISP stopped signing up new broadband customers earlier this year as the $54 a month broadband rate has proved uneconomic and relatively expensive compared with competing services. ...more

Toshiba settles over the case of defective laptops

The US Justice Department takes on a technology giant. And this time it's not Microsoft. Reuters reports that Toshiba has agreed to pay $23m to the US Government to resolve an allegation that it sold defective laptops to government agencies. ...more

Microsoft's North Carolina settlement approved

Microsoft's proposed settlement over the anti-trust, class-action suit with consumers in the state of North Carolina has met with approval (North Carolina is one of the six states that settled with Microsoft in the long running legal dispute). The plaintiffs stand to receive vouchers to the tune of $89mn, to be spent on hardware and software from any vendor. Although, for some reason, the choice of peripherals that can be bought is limited. ...more