Boo.com comes back from the dead

Doomed fashion site Boo.com may be making a comeback, just before Halloween. The site, which came to grief in June this year, was bought by US clothes portal Fashionmall. ...more

P2P activity doubles in two years

Despite the best efforts of the music industry, peer-to-peer activity has more than doubled over the past two years according to the latest figures from a p2p tracking service. Big Champagne reports that in September the average number of people logged onto p2p networks worldwide was 9,284,558. In September 2003 the figure was 4,319,182. ...more

Broadband carries eighty per cent of UK Net connections

Four out of five UK Internet connections are now via broadband, according to a survey of Internet service providers (ISPs). In its latest study of ISPs, the National Statistics department found that 79.2 per cent of connections are on broadband as opposed to dial-up as of December 2006, up from 75. ...more

Punters gagging for wireless versions of consumer electronics

Consumers are gagging for wireless versions of DVD players, plasma screens and other consumer electronic products, and would be prepared to pay extra for this feature, according to Netgear. The company, which unsurprisingly makes wireless products, polled 1,000 punters coming out of Habitat and found 51 per cent would pay at least 10 per cent more to be rid of the spaghetti of cables between various electronic boxes. 20 per cent felt that the more complex a product, the more likely things would go wrong. ...more

Adobe announces Acrobat 6

Adobe Systems has announced Acrobat 6.0 Professional, the final major Adobe application to run natively in Mac OS X New and enhanced tools in Acrobat 6.0 Professional enable users to quickly create high-quality Adobe PDF files, including PDF/X-compliant documents. ...more