Christian teens see no wrong in music piracy

God fearing teenagers are just as light fingered as their agnostic cousins it seems. A survey by the Gospel Music Council of 1,448 Christian teenagers found that 86 per cent believe that music piracy, including copying CDs, is morally acceptable or not a moral issue. Only eight percent thought it was wrong, a figure virtually the same as for non-Christians. ...more

BSKyB buys Easynet for ?211m

BSKyB is to acquire broadband networks company Easynet for ?211m. The deal will enable the company to add broadband, IP telephony and video-on-demand services to its satellite TV offerings and make it better equipped to compete with the soon-to-merge merged cable TV and broadband companies NTL and Telewest. Easynet is the leading LLU-based broadband provider in the UK, providing services up to 8Mbps for a number of ISPs including Wanadoo and PlusNet. ...more

Mobile phone growth harder to find in coming years

Mobile phone manufacturers will find it increasingly difficult to increase sales in the coming years as the developed world reaches saturation, according to new research. Despite the opening of huge potential markets in China and India, growth is likely to slow substantially over the next few years. A new report by Informa Telecoms & Media, says that by 2008 manufacturers will find it an uphill struggle to maintain growth. ...more

Wireless technology breakthrough offers cheap long distance broadband

A Florida based company is claiming a breakthrough in fixed wireless broadband that uses low frequencies to extend the operating distance. As any radio ham or whale will tell you, the lower the frequency of a wave, the greater the distance it can travel and still be understood. According to its inventors, xMax is a new modulation and encoding technology that allows the deployment of broadband services using lower frequency bands The problem with low frequency transmissions of this kind have been weak signals and slow data rates. ...more

EC tells Microsoft to change name of new media-less Windows

The European Commission is less than pleased with Microsoft's new moniker for a Media Player-less version of Windows. Redmond has been requested by the Commission to return to the drawing board to come up with something less pejorative than the proposed 'Windows XP Reduced Media Edition'. 'We believe the name was fully compliant,' maintained a Microsoft spokesperson. ...more