Minute MuVo2 player boasts massive 1.5GB storage

Barely the size of a matchbox and weighing far less than a bag of sugar, Creative's new MuVo2 has a veritable double garage of 1.5GB, or 25 hours' worth, of room in which to store your music. Built around a 1. ...more

Bertelsmann called to stop Nazis on Napster

The media giant Bertelsmann has been urged by Germany's internal security agency to stop the dissemination of Nazi-related material. It's the music of extreme right-wing bands being swapped via online partner Napster that is now in the spotlight. There has been a mixed response from Bertelsmann. ...more

Fire closes BT lines to 130,000 Manchester homes and businesses

Internet connections Manchester have been interrupted this morning following a fire. In a statement, BT said, 'A fire in cable chambers running beneath the streets of central Manchester has caused extensive damage to (underground) cables and widespread disruption to phone services in Manchester and the surrounding area. 'The fire is affecting some 130,000 homes and businesses in the centre of the city. ...more

Hollywood wins DVD cracking lawsuit

The movie industry has won its legal battle to prevent a journalist from publishing links to software that cracks the copy protection on DVDs. New York District Judge Lewis Kaplan yesterday ruled in favour of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which had sought to prevent Eric Corley, publisher of the online hacker magazine 2600.com, from distributing the DVD-cracking program DeCSS. ...more

Red Hat joins forces with Unisys to put Linux on servers

Red Hat has signed up Intel box builder Unisys as a partner. The deal will see the companies teaming up on marketing, support, training and contributing to the Open Source community. Unisys did not beging installing Linux on its high-end servers until last month when it began shipping its ES7000 servers running 32-bit and 64-bit Intel chips with Novell's SUSE Linux. ...more