Singles market crashes by 41 per cent, album sales up at all time high

The market for singles continues to fall through the floor although album sales have gone up due to falling prices, according to the latest quarterly survey from the British Phonographic Industry. According the latest survey, the effect of shrinking price differentials between singles and albums (where a single can cost up to ?4.99 while the average price of a CD album is now ?9. ...more

Trojan makes unwitting porn barons of broadband users

A new Trojan has been detailed that turns your PC into a server which grabs pornographic material from a remote server and pushes it through to whoever requested it. Although it's not known quite how the Trojan is spreading, roughly 2,000 computers in the US have been hijacked in this way by MigMaf-A. The Trojan makes the following edit to the Registry to ensure it is run at when the system is booted: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. ...more

AMD raises the bar for 64-bit notebook computing

AMD has released a 64-bit processor to run high-performance, desktop-replacement notebooks. The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ clocks 2.6 GHz and has 1MB of level 2 cache. ...more

Telewest enters the 'midband' market

Telewest is launching a 256Kbits/sec broadband service for ?17.99 a month. Launched in response to 'public demand', the entry-level service is aimed at those without ambitions above surf, email and shopping, but would like to go a little bit faster and free up the phone. ...more

iPod takes 82 per cent of US retail market

iPods accounted for 82 per cent of the US market for portable digital music players in the twelve months up to August, up from 64 per cent the year before and 33 per cent the year before that. Such is the iPod's dominance - and with it the iTunes Music Store - that it raises the question of whether other online music stores can survive as long as Apple continues to exclude them from the iPod by refusing to license its Fairplay DRM technology. The virtual hegemony of the iPod puts Apple in an incredibly strong position to exploit the expected increase in the market from 10. ...more