Analysts praise BT Vision but warn of tough market

Analysts have expressed a cautious welcome for BT's new broadband TV service: BT Vision. Jupiter Research's Ian Fogg warned not to judge the success or otherwise of the new platform in the immediate future. He suggests the BT move to offer content was as much a push as a jump. ...more

Google five today

Google celebrates its fifth birthday today, but some thing's never change, as its latest figures for the most popular search terms show. With Big Brother out of the way, celebrities and cheap flights dominate the list of the ten most popular Google queries in the UK, with the exception of Argos at number two and chart toppers Blu Cantrell tenth. The complete top ten is: 1. ...more

US tech companies bid to annul wireless patent

Some of the world's biggest technology companies have joined together defeat a key patent claimed by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The companies include Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple and Netgear. At issue is a patent issued in the US to CSIRO in 1996 that, the organisation claims, increases the speed of a wireless network up to five times. ...more

Allofmp3 defends its right to sell music downloads

Allofmp3.com has defended its right to sell music downloads, amid increasing international efforts to close it down. In a statement the administrators of the Russian website said that it operated in full compliance with the country's laws 'The site Allofmp3. ...more

Talks tabled to put protected CDs on iPods

Record labels are in talks with Apple to find a way of making copy-protected CDs compatible with iTunes and iPods. Major labels have recently released albums from a number of high-profile artists that include software to prevent them being ripped on a PC. As a result it has come in for scathing criticism from iPod owning fans of the Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews among others. ...more