Punters gagging for wireless versions of consumer electronics

Consumers are gagging for wireless versions of DVD players, plasma screens and other consumer electronic products, and would be prepared to pay extra for this feature, according to Netgear. The company, which unsurprisingly makes wireless products, polled 1,000 punters coming out of Habitat and found 51 per cent would pay at least 10 per cent more to be rid of the spaghetti of cables between various electronic boxes. 20 per cent felt that the more complex a product, the more likely things would go wrong. ...more

Trend Micro ousts McAfee from Hotmail message scanning

Trend Micro has ousted McAfee from its seat scanning Hotmail messages for viruses. Exactly what motivated the change remains unclear. Trend Micro's president of European Operations Raimun Genes told us: 'We were contacted by MSN Hotmail, but we never questioned why. ...more

Giove satellite sends first signals

The Giove satellite has sent its first signals back to earth. The successful transmission and reception of the signals means that the European Galileo project is officially in business. Passing the milestone means another step in creating a global satellite navigation system that is ten times more accurate than the one currently in use. ...more

HP targets digital photography and home entertainment markets

HP is bidding to turn on consumers who have been turned off by complicated technology. It has launched a new strategy for addressing the digital photography and consumer home entertainment markets. Under the banner 'Enjoy more', the strategy will be backed by more than 100 products, the company claims. ...more

Waterstone's ditches Amazon to go it alone

Waterstone's has severed its link with Amazon and will launch its own online bookshop later this year. HMV, which owns the high street bookseller, said that the company had underestimated the impact that the Internet would have on its business. 'The Amazon partnership has been good but when we first entered into it we felt that online sales would not get to more than 10 per cent of the UK books market,' said chief executive Alan Giles. ...more