Big demand for net names

dotTV has spent over $50 million buying up .tv web addresses from the remote Pacific island of Tuvalu. Since April, the American company has registered over 100,000 . ...more

Freescale to debut two new PowerPC processors

Motorola's wholly-owned chip making subsidiary, Freescale, will introduce two major additions to its range of PowerPC processors at the forthcoming Multiprocessor Forum. Freescale first announced the e600 and e700 cores and platforms when it outlined its roadmap in April. The e600 succeeds the G4 that Apple currently deploys in its iBook, PowerBook, eMac and soon-to-be-replaced iMac lines, whilst maintaining full backwards compatibility. ...more

Nokia invites developers to take on Series 60

Nokia opens a competition for developers to build Series 60 applications. Series 60 is the widely adopted platform for powerful mobile phones. Nokia is now encouraging developers to improve on the applications that are available on the handsets. ...more

Report: Beyond the Backlash - Part 2

Yesterday saw a meeting of representatives from industry, NGOs and government bodies to discuss the state of technology, the Internet and society, and how to innovate it in what is something of a hiatus following dot-com collapse and all those broken promises of the Internet's potential. In a series of plenary sessions and workshops, a range of issues came up for hot debate, from the perennial thorn of broadband, to how should the Web be governed and crime dealt with, and how best we can assimilate this new space into our culture. What became clear throughout all the sessions is that technology and the Internet is all things to all people. ...more

Comment: Google's necessary evil

The trouble with becoming a giant in your chosen field is that your responsibilities grow in line with your status. Whereas mid-sized companies can focus on increasing their bottom lines without having to make philanthropic gestures, the big guys have to play a careful marketing game that balances huge profits with an accessible, friendly side to keep customers on board. The cynic inside me suggests this is the reason behind the new 'corporate social responsibility' culture that's gripping the IT world. ...more