Virgin Net drops the meter - UPDATE

Virgin.net will launch its unmetered Internet access service in October. Subscribers to Virgin. ...more

Halifax Online fails again

Halifax has been forced to postpone its online banking service for a third time after its Intelligent Finance (IF) banking arm suffered another troubled start. The postponement was made after doubts arose over the stability of the computer systems. The telephone banking side finally got underway without any problems. ...more

Nikon views market share for the D40 DSLR

Nikon has announced its low-end DSLR the D40; part of the company's bid to take a 40 per cent market share to give it a leadership position. The new camera will replace the existing D50 - of which there is a month's supply remaining - while broadening its appeal to families as well as creative enthusiasts. In doing so, Nikon hopes to broaden the market itself, both by pricing and ease-of-use-led design. ...more

Legal downloads top half a million a month in UK

Legal music dowloads in the UK have topped 500,000 a month, according to new figures from industry body the BPI. Between April and June 2004 1,500,000 songs were sold following the launch of Napster and the iTunes Music Store. In the previous quarter, sales were a third of that. ...more

Intel to unleash PC power on mobile devices

MMX architecture to rock mobile devices Intel has announced new technologies at its Developer Forum to allow the power of desktop software apps to run on wireless mobile devices. Intel Wireless MMX technology is a set of multimedia instructions taken largely from the architecture used by Intel embedded in its current processor line-up. However, this can now be used in its power-saving XScale microarchitecture, used in its processors for small mobile devices, such as the 400Mhz PXA250 chip. ...more