School bullying by new technology

Some children are turning to new technology in order to bully their victims. Professor Peter Smith, a leading Government adviser, said that children are using SMS text messaging and e-mail to threaten other children. Professor Smith is head of the Unit for School and Family Studies and noticed the new trend after looking at the results of a recent survey into bullying. ...more

UK public digitally switch off

According to research commissioned by Pace, far from being ready for Tony Blair's digital switch over to digital TV, most UK consumers aren't ready to change, and 92 per cent aren't prepared to pay for it. Tony Blair set out a goal to get the UK to switch over to digital TV by 2010 - with a view to auction off more airwaves - but 60 per cent of those polled have no plans to do so for the next few years and a third could not see who would benefit from it. Forty per cent of over 65s would not be prepared to pay for either new sets or set-top boxes and a third of all those surveyed believed that the Government should foot the bill. ...more

Stopping the voices and enforcing silence

Japanese scientists hit on a way to block mobile phone signals in restaurants, cinemas or any other place where a mobile ring tone would not be welcome... ...more

Dell beats Apple in Adobe speed tests

A Dell PC has soundly beaten a Power Mac in a series of speed tests of Adobe applications. The tests were carried out by Digital Producer Magazine, but the results have been reproduced by Adobe on a Web page entitled, ominously, as 'pcpreferred'. Digital Producer Magazine compared a single-processor Dell 2. ...more

PC Pro: Stealth upgrade

JAL has changed two components in its Virgo Stealth machine, which won the Silent PCs group test The Logitech Wireless Keyboard/Mouse have been changed to the Microsoft Wireless Keyboard & Optical Mouse, while the Nicole SD-2500 speakers have been upgraded to the Creative Inspire 5100 speakers. As the mouse and keyboard are of equivalent quality, and the speakers are an improvement, PC Pro Labs is happy with these changes to the reviewed specification. However, if you would prefer to order the Stealth as originally reviewed, JAL will offer this exact configuration. ...more