iTunes glitch gives Arctic Monkeys top spot

The Arctic Monkeys must be thanking whoever it was at the iTunes Store that helped them dominate the UK music charts last week. The band's album Favourite Worst Nightmare topped the album charts at the weekend, at the same time that 17 of its tracks featured in the top 200 singles chart. Two made it into the Top 75. ...more

Down all the way for chip market

The processor market is experiencing a steep decline, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported yesterday. According to figures from the Association, the European market has seen a 7.8 per cent decrease in sales from last month and a 16. ...more

Symbian treads lightly for new mobile platform

Symbian has announced version 9.5 of its eponymous platform for mobile phones. The new release has been designed to reduce its appetite, using up fewer hardware resources and freeing them up for use by the applications running on top. ...more

EC charges towards powerline Internet access

To help develop the next generation of powerline technology - using national electricity grids to carry broadband access - the European Commission is spending €9.6 million. The Open PLC European Research Alliance (Opera) will use the funding to rollout and to test how well the low-cost internet access works for high data rate applications such as telephony and video-on-demand. ...more

Sony puts 23.3GB on CD-sized disc

Sony has unveiled a new blue laser optical storage drive capable of storing 23.3GB on a disc the size of a CD. The drive can write data at 9MB/sec write-once or rewriteable discs, which are held in cartridges to protect both the surface of the disc and the drive mechanism. ...more