London Underground preps mobile coverage

Transport for London plans to test the commercial and technical viability of mobile coverage on the below-ground sections of the tube network. If a new trial goes as planned, being stuck on the tube will no longer be an excuse for not calling. London Underground (LU) has announced plans to trial mobile phone coverage in below-ground tube tunnels and stations. ...more

New Scotland Yard launches most wanted site

New Scotland Yard has launched a top-ten Web site a la FBI, that lists the UK's most wanted. The Web site contains pictures of those still at large, along with details of their exploits that range from cold-blooded murder, firearm offences and drug trafficking, to child neglect and even someone with a penchant for 16th and 17th century antique maps who may be responsible for some of the 4,500 missing ancient books and charts across Europe. Topping the FBI's top ten most wanted fugitives is Osama Bin Laden, but he fails to make it on the Scotland Yard chart. ...more

Podcasting favours the cultured

Podcast fans - and thanks to Apple there are a lot more of them these days - are a cut above, preferring the less-nasal-than-before tones of Melvyn Bragg to the brash early morning musings of Chris Moyles and 'Comedy' Dave. The BBC has been running a seven week podcast trial, letting listeners download a selection of its radio programmes as MP3 files. Bragg's In Our Time was downloaded on average 30,000 times each week. ...more

Apple to announce first 1Ghz Power Mac

Sources close to Apple US have indicated that the company will announce its first 1GHz Power Mac on Monday. Although details of the product are still unclear, the new Power Mac is believed to use the next generation of G4 processor, previously codenamed Apollo. This chip is likely to be called either the PowerPC 7445 or 7455, according to sources familiar with the project. ...more

Maximum hard disk speed found

Scientists have discovered the maximum speed that data can be written to a conventional hard disk. Drives store data as a sequence of magnetic polarities on their surface. The BBC reports that researcher at Stanford University in the US found that they could generate pulses too quick to register a change to the coating. ...more