External storage gets personal

So much data, so many files. Where to store all those MP3 songs, digital videos and backups, without opening up your PC for new or extra hard drives? Maxtor's latest solution is the 40 gig's worth of external storage that comes with the Maxtor Personal Storage 300LE. The new drive is compatible with both PCs and Macs - it operates with USB 2. ...more

Carphone Warehouse launches broadband TalkTalk

Carphone Warehouse has launched a new TalkTalk combined broadband and landline phone service that costs ?20.99 per month. Available to around 70 per cent of the UK population, the package comprises unlimited local and national landline calls, 24 hours a day; unlimited international landline calls to 28 countries, 24 hours a day; and up to 8Mbps broadband access. ...more

AOL and NTL sign broadband football deal

The slicing and dicing of online rights to football coverage continues. Recently we reported on RealNetworks' tie in with UEFA to carry Champions League football, and now AOL has signed a new deal sub-licensing UK football coverage. Under the terms of the deals, with a number of online rights holders, AOL and NTL Broadband members will have free access to premium content areas of one club. ...more

Wanadoo wishes online advertising had more worth

Wanadoo has called for advertisers to take the Web as seriously they do TV. It quotes its latest research as showing that broadband users put in more surf-hours and at the expense of time spent in front of the box. 'Broadband Internet is slowly but surely eating into TV consumption,' said Dave McCall, advertising sales director at Wanadoo. ...more

BitTorrent aims to speed streams

The torrent of bits delivered by BitTorrent may be arriving even faster. CacheLogic and BitTorrent have announced a partnership that will see the well-known 'peer-assisted digital content delivery platform' work with CacheLogic on new techniques to speed download times. The two companies intend to collaborate on the development of the open-source Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP). ...more