UK games chart: Christmas Number One revealed

It is the last games chart before Christmas and who sits atop the pile? The answer is EA's Need For Speed: Underground 2, staying ahead of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Activision's Call of Duty: Finest Hour... ...more

Internet shopping boom underway, claims Visa

Online shopping has more than doubled in the past year, according to credit card giant Visa. The company said online sales for the first quarter of 2004 rose 123 per cent, and that sequentially each quarter is now showing a doubling on the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Visa says holders of its card spent ?2. ...more

Intel names price for gamers' Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor

Intel has official released its souped-up version of the Pentium 4 processor, aimed specifically at gamers. Costing $925, the snappily-titled 'Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading technology Extreme Edition' (P4 HT EE), clocks in at 3.2GHz and features extra on-die cache. ...more

Worldwide cable modem market grew 19 per cent in 3Q

Vendors will start to see even more intense competition for the low-end, simple-functionality modems Worldwide cable modem market shipments totaled more than three million units in the third quarter of 2002, up by 19.4 per cent from 2.5 million units a year earlier, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. ...more

War to boost online spending

Forrester Research predicts consumer fears will mean shopping from the safety of a computer. The effect of war for the Internet is the subject of the latest research from Forrester. It predicts consumers will spend more time and money online as they clamour for immediate coverage of the war's progress while fear of terrorist retaliation will see them desert shopping centres for the safety of shopping online. ...more