Mobile Phone penetration to exceed 100 per cent in Europe

The mobile phone market in Western Europe is already beyond saturation in some countries according to a new survey by market research company Analysys. Italy, Sweden and the UK have already seen their market penetration exceed 100 per cent in 2004 and the rest of the continent is likely to follow suit by 2007. However, rather than indicating that more than all of us have a mobile phone, the apparent statistical anomaly is due to many people buying multiple phones or SIM cards. ...more

New Xbox details leak onto the Internet

Some ten days ahead of its scheduled launch, details of the next generation Xbox have been leaking onto the Internet. Several sites claim to have specs and a picture of the new Microsoft console that it hopes will supplant Sony in the affections of the majority of the world's gamers. According to Endgadget. ...more

The virus done good?

The word from the world of viruses is that UK programmers have unleashed a virus that supposedly hunts down paedophiles and reports them to the relevant authorities. The "Noped" virus is based upon a Visual Basic application and arrives as an attachment on an e-mail with the subject line "FWD: Help us all to end illegal child porn now". When the application is executed, it searches for any . ...more

Businesses prepare to bluejack your phone

Even your mobile phone might not be able to avoid the curse of spam, now that the marketing industry is waking up to the advertising potential of Bluetooth. As we reported in October, Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones have spawned bluejacking, the process of anonymously sending text and images from one phone to another. However, what started out as an innocent pastime could become a pervasive marketing tool, outside the control of privacy protection laws. ...more

Ask scrubs up for consumer appeal

The butler Jeeves has already been given his P45, but now the whole Ask website has had an overhaul, as the rival to Google, Yahoo! and MSN battles for search market share. The first thing you notice about Ask.com is the cleaner interface, which is an attempt to become less cluttered and 'more consumer focused', the Ask VP of European Product Management, Tony Macklin, told us. ...more