BBC provisionally approves on-demand TV

The BBC Trust has approved the idea of a Web-based on-demand TV service. The Trust, which oversees Britain's publicly-funded broadcaster, provisionally gave the green light for the service after making some changes to meet concerns from the media regulator Ofcom that it would impact commercial rivals. The on-demand iPlayer service will allow viewers to catch up with programmes from the previous seven days and store them on a computer for 30 days. ...more

MSN Music to add subs service

Microsoft is looking into expanding its MSN Music downloads store to include a subscription service. Like Apple's market leading iTunes Music Store, the US-only MSN service currently sells individual track or album downloads, while rival offerings from Real, Yahoo! and Napster have made a big deal of offering subscribers the chance to access their entire library on payment of a monthly fee. However, there's a downside: if you stop paying the fee, you no longer have access to the tracks you have downloaded. ...more

Giove satellite sends first signals

The Giove satellite has sent its first signals back to earth. The successful transmission and reception of the signals means that the European Galileo project is officially in business. Passing the milestone means another step in creating a global satellite navigation system that is ten times more accurate than the one currently in use. ...more

MyDoom.C plans new assault on Microsoft

A new worm is hoping to use the vast network of computers infected with MyDoom.A to succeed where MyDoom.B failed and launch a DDOS attack against www. ...more

Thus to sell Demon consumer ISP

The consolidation of the UK broadband market continues apace with the news that Thus has has put Demon Internet's consumer business up for sale. The Scotland-based telecommunications company is expected to get between ?15 and ?20 million forom the sale of the ISP it bought for ?66.6 million in 1998. ...more