MySpace CEO defends safety after users arrested

The CEO of MySpace has defended the safety of the wildly popular social networking website after two man were arrested in the US to face charges of sexually abusing children they contacted through the site. Chris DeWolfe claimed that MySpace is no more dangerous than the real world. 'If you go to the mall and start talking to strange people, bad things can happen,' he said. ...more

UK games chart: No new tricks needed for FIFA Street

There's a new entry in the top three in this week's ELSPA UK games chart. EA's FIFA Street football continues to lead the way ahead of Sony's Gran Turismo, but Ubi Soft's multi-format action game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory jumps straight in below them. The main climber this week - up fourteen places to number seven - is The Punisher, THQ's action game based on the Marvel comic book of the same name. ...more

Dell expands range of pre-installed Linux laptops and desktops

Dell has confirmed it is to expand its range of laptops and desktops with versions of the open-source Linux operating system pre-installed following a Linux campaign on its IdeaStorm site. Linux options quickly became the burning issue when Dell launched its IdeaStorm site to harvest the ideas and opinion of its users. Two weeks ago the company rolled out a survey in response to assess how great that demand was and how Linux is likely to be used. ...more

14-Apr-2003 The week's top 10 news stories

BT's ADSL price cuts mean nothing to consumers, Oftel to slash BT's unmetered dial-up, and Sony puts 23.3GB on CD-sized disc.. ...more

Samsung develops ultra-fine, high-speed handset LCD

Samsung SDI recently successfully developed an ultra-fine and high-speed handset LCD, which it terms the UFS LCD, according to the Korea Economic Daily. The UFS LCD features 13.5-millisecond (ms) response time, 260,000 colours and 87 per cent colour saturation, much better than the currently available mobile phone panels that feature 30ms response time and 40 per cent colour saturation. ...more