Yahoo Video to host 'viewer created' TV content

In another twist in the current rush for anything resembling video on the web, Yahoo has signed a deal with Al Gore's (yes, that one) Current TV service to create to create a new social network based around TV style channels. Current TV, a pioneer in what is called 'viewer created content' allows programme makers to put their own videos online. By partnering with Yahoo, the service hopes that the portal's expertise in building communities will lead to a rapid expansion in traffic. ...more

Elections prompt Internet boom

Internet servers have been swamped by users desperate to get the latest developments in the race to the US presidency. Records have been broken for a number of news sites as surfers are using the Internet to view results as they happen and look at information unavailable on television. At ABC News, a record 23 million page impressions crushed its previous high of 10 million when the site posted the Starr report following the Lewinsky debacle in 1998. ...more

Microsoft opens appeal against Eolas ruling

Microsoft was back in court again yesterday in an attempt to overturn a $565 million damages award. The software giant is appealing in a Federal Court against a ruling in a lower court in Chicago that Internet Explorer infringed patents held by developer Eolas, a spin-off of the University of California. The central issue is whether the 1998 Eolas patent - which covers imbedding small programs within browser and purports to cover plug-ins and applets - is valid. ...more

EPSON introduces new Stylus inkjet

The inkjet that thinks it's a laser, could almost be EPSON's line on the Stylus C80, which produces black and colour output. EPSON claims printing of 2880 dots per inch for its latest Stylus, aimed at home and small office users. Alongside a print rate of 20 pages/min (in black) and 13 pages/min (in colour), the Stylus C80 uses pigment ink for both black and colour output, which will be good for the outdoor types who take their documents with them. ...more

AMD slashes prices, introduces XP-M 3000+

AMD has matched Intel's price cutting with a round of its own. Leading the way, in percentage terms, are the 64-bit Opteron servers. The 8-way 800 models have been cut by as much as 40 per cent (the 844), with the 200 and 100 models also seeing cuts of up to a third. ...more