UK games chart: FIFA 07 stays top of the league

The FIFA sanctioned footy game, FIFA 07 (DS, GBA, GC, Mob, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb, Xb360), holds its top position in this week's ELSPA Games Chart, having previously gone straight in at number one. The update to the surprisingly popular LEGO Star Wars game - LucasArts's The Original Trilogy (DS, GBA, GC, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb) - climbs from four to two (pictured), and EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (GC, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb, Xb360) completes the top three. There no new entries this week, and indeed last week's new boys - Square Enix's Disney-based Kingdom Hearts II (PS2) and Company of Heroes (PC), the real-time WWII strategy game from THQ - are both static at numbers five and seven, respectively. ...more

Tiscali hits back at BPI

If the British Phonographic Industry thought that the ISPs Tiscali and Cable and Wireless would meekly suspend the 59 subscriber accounts which are allegedly involved in wholesale copyright theft, it has had to think again. In a letter to the BPI, Tiscali demands that the BPI shows more compelling evidence that unlawful behaviour has actually taken place before it will consider suspending the accounts of those concerned. The BPI had demanded the suspension of the accounts by saying it had identified 17 Tiscali IP addresses and 42 Cable and Wireless IP addresses that had been involved in large scale downloading of copyright material. ...more

Kerbango closure impacts iTunes

3Com has decided to shut down its Internet Appliance division, including Kerbango, the Internet radio service. The move will seriously impact Apple's iTunes, as the software uses Kerbango to locate streaming audio channels. 3Com acquired Kerbango last August, but the decision to shut the Internet Appliance division is one of a set of massive cost-cutting measures the company is implementing. ...more

Microsoft adds .Net services support to Silverlight

Microsoft has announced several key additions to the Silverlight Web-based media technology that it announced just a fortnight ago. Ray Ozzie, the company's recently appointed chief software architect, explained to a Web industry gathering in Las Vegas how Silverlight fits into the company's overall strategy and its .Net platform. ...more

Zune fails to dent iPod sales as US goes shopping

iPods claimed five of the top ten spots in Amazon's consumer electronics chart over the key US shopping weekend. Apple's portable music players took another five of the top 25 bestsellers, with Microsoft's heavily marketed Zune so far behind that it was outsold by an iPod accessory. The Microsoft player was number 75 behind Apple's USB power adapter at 65. ...more