Nokia handsets in Hannover

CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, has proved to be the launchpad for a host of consumer electronics devices. Nokia, in turn, has set a few handsets off the leash boasting colour screens, multimedia messaging capabilities and more. Prepare for debriefing. ...more

PDAs cling on in the USA - Gartner

Oh, our American cousins and their quaint ways. According to research group Gartner, our friends in the mobile-device backwater that is the US still use PDAs and are only just catching on to the idea of the smartphone. North America remains the only place in the world where PDAs still outsell smartphones, and Gartner expects the device category to continue to edge along the brink of extinction, with a lack of consumer demand shown in there being no new models from Palm this year. ...more

blinkx video search adds RSS and podcasting

Audio and video search startup blinkx has added new strings to its bow: RSS and podcasting. The SmartFeed facility can be used by any RSS reader. Rather than listing everything that's indexed, users first run a search. ...more

Website author sues estate of James Joyce

An American academic is suing the estate of Nobel Prize-winning author James Joyce for the right to quote his works on her website. Backed by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Fair Use Project, Carol Shloss, acting English professor at Stanford University, is asking the court to rule that she is entitled to quote Joyce's writings under laws that permit the use of copyrighted work where it is done in 'a scholarly transformative manner'. Joyce's estate, which is managed by his grandson, Stephen James Joyce, has refused to let Schloss quote from the Irishman's published works, manuscripts and private letters. ...more

Nildram revamps its broadband pricing

Nildram has revamped its broadband services and pricing structure. Prices have been cut across both its Classic and pay-as-you-go services, while some caps have been removed. All caps have been removed from the Classic services, while prices have been cut by around 20 per cent. ...more