iTMS records 80 per cent of UK downloads market

Apple's iTunes Music Store has an 80 per cent share of the UK downloads market, according to new figures from the Official Charts Company, and the biggest music catalogue. 'We're thrilled that music fans in the UK have made the iTunes Music Store their number one choice for purchasing digital music,' said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes. 'We feature the largest catalogue in the UK with over 1. ...more

2GHz Notino notebook goes for under ?600

Hi-Grade describes its new Notino notebooks as desktop-replacements, but they still start from a price under ?600. Featuring a new silver-and-black casing, the 3600 series starts with the 2000A model, which runs on a 2GHz Intel Mobile Celeron. Other aspects of the spec include a 14. ...more

The Christmas present no one wants

A federal agency in the United States has warned of increased hacking activities over the Christmas festivities. The National Infrastructure Protection Center has issued a warning of an "increase in hacker activity specifically targeting US systems associated with e-commerce". Sources of information behind the alert include the FBI. ...more

EMI's tills are ringing as download takings grow fourfold

Music publisher EMI has seen a fourfold increase in its digital downloads revenue in the past year according to its Chairman Eric Nicoli. Introducing the group's interim results, Nicoli said 'and I am very encouraged to report that EMI's digital revenues more than quadrupled at constant currency in the first half and now represent more than two per cent of Group turnover.' As with all music publishers, there is almost an audible sigh of relief as they finally turn digital music from illegal file-sharing into a revenue stream. ...more

Storm worm variant blows against blogs and forums

The Storm worm has returned in a new guise. The worm, which managed to cause a global virus outbreak earlier in the year is now targeting users who blog or post to forums. The new variant is propagating itself via links from blogs and forum posts directing users to a malicious website that downloads code onto a user's machine which compromises the computer and turns it into part of a botnet. ...more