BT cuts broadband upgrades price

BT Wholesale has made a huge cut in the cost of changing the speed of an IPStream-based ADSL broadband connection. Upgrading your line, whether from 500Kbps to 1 or 2Mbps or from 1 to 2Mbps will now cost your ISP ?11 plus VAT. Previously the charge was ?35. ...more

Flamboyant AMD founder Sanders steps down

Jerry Sanders III, the flamboyant chairman and founder of AMD, is to step down from the chair of the board in favour of the president and CEO Hector Ruiz. The handover will happen at the company's annual meeting on 29 April and Sanders will retain the title of chairman emeritus. Sanders, who stepped down from the positions of president and CEO two years ago, is credited with keeping AMD afloat against competition from the much bigger Intel. ...more

Panasonic launches two DVD hard disk players

Panasonic, the consumer brand of Matsushita, is to launch two DVD players with hard disks and DVD-RAM/DVD-R recording capabilities. The DMR-E100 and DMR-E200H sport a 120GB and 160GB drive respectively and also offer slots for SD and PCMCIA cards for transferring data. Panasonic is backing DVD-RAM, claiming it is becoming the de facto standard for recordable optical disk media. ...more

Apple analyst plays down Google phone hype

Google is building software to run services on cell phones rather than gearing up to build a mobile device of its own, as many industry sources have speculated, one Wall Street analyst said on Thursday. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said in a research note to clients that Google appears to be building software for Web search on cell phones and location-finding services to work with Apple's iPhone and other cell phones. 'We believe Google is working with, not against, Apple in the mobile world,' Munster said. ...more

Robbie Williams' Greatest Hits album to be available on memory card

Robbie Williams' upcoming Greatest Hits album will be available on memory card, according to label EMI. While the card will cost nearer ?30, rather than the ?12.99 or so you might pay for a CD, the album contains video content accessible by a range of devices including the latest mobile phones and PDAs. ...more