Apple stomps up the brand charts

Every year Business Week and Interbrand try to put a value on the brands of the world's biggest corporations and see how they compare. It is a ranking of 'The 100 Best Global Brands' by dollar value. For 2004, Apple and Samsung (as last year) are among those measured as being the fastest growing brands. ...more

PS2 to get the PC makeover

Sony is seeking partners to turn the PS2 into a home computer serving as the hub of a network of digital household products. "We are seeking a way for PlayStation2 to be used as the home gateway," said Shinichi Okamoto, Sony Computer Entertainment Vice President during a business presentation at the CEATEC electronics show. "We will work on commercialisation or will ask someone to work on commercialisation" of such a product," he said. ...more

The week that was five years ago: Apple finishes OS X and Napster makes waves

As Microsoft prepared to release Office XP, oh the excitement, and Apple was putting the finishing touches to the very first version of OS X, it was Napster that was grabbing the headlines five years ago this week. The original file sharing network's days were numbered and it was eagerly courting partners to launch what would then have been a pioneering digital music service. To think we might never have heard of the iTunes Music Store. ...more

As free as a wireless PC device

Devices without the clutter of cables, that's what's on offer with Intel's family of wireless PC peripherals. Stand up and walk away, you can still be connected to your PC - and you won't trip over any cables. Called the Intel Wireless Series, it includes the Wireless Series Gamepad, the Wireless Series Mouse and the Wireless Series Keyboard (all pictured). ...more

TomTom finds itself some Trojans

Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that a number of its devices are infected with malware, following an investigation by a security expert. The viruses were shipped with the TomTom GO 910 model but do not affect the operation of the device, according to the manufacturers. But according to a posting on tech blog Daniweb, once the TomTom device is connected to a PC running Windows, anti-virus software on the computer immediately flags up two alerts identifying win32. ...more