Downloads chart debut delayed

The merging of downloads sales figure into the main UK Chart, which was due to go ahead in March, has been put back to 17 April. The BPI has asked the Official Charts Company to delay the merger because it is concerned that independent labels are under-represented in online stores. 'For a multitude of reasons, the current chart representation of independent repertoire at the major download outlets is poor,' explained BPI chairman Peter Jamieson. ...more

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18-11-2000 Essential news of the week

Catch up on the essential news of this week and find out what the movers and shakers of the IT industry have been up to. New top-level domain names announced Hitachi unleash PC-TV Recording with your Palm Toshiba gets first shot at NVIDIA's new mobile GPU Visual Studio.NET, in Beta 1 form Netscape 6. ...more

Satellite tagging for the elderly in prospect

The science minister has said that satellite monitoring tags could be used to help track elderly people with dementia. Malcolm Wicks suggested the idea yesterday, at a House of Commons science and technology committee. 'Some might benefit from being monitored so that families know they are safe and secure,' he said. ...more

Epson preps PictureMate for phone-based printing

Epson has developed a Symbian-based application for printing direct from phone to printer via Bluetooth. Developed alongside its PictureMate 6-colour photo printer, the application will support photos sent wirelessly from a range of Nokia camera phones that use the Symbian-based Series 60 platform. The phone app will be available this spring as a free download from the Epson website. ...more