Telewest broadcasts high definition digital TV service

Telewest has launched what it claims is the UK's first high definition digital TV service to some 4.5 million of its customers. Available through Telewest's new PVR, called TVDrive, viewers will be able to see the first HDTV broadcasts in the UK from the likes of BBC Worldwide as well as pay-per-view movies. ...more

BlueCore backing for Bluetooth

One of the most influential Bluetooth companies, Cambridge Silicon Radio, gave the under-fire wireless standard a boost today, by announcing a new product that promises to attract even more phone manufacturers to the market. The product itself is called the BlueCore2-ROM. It's a single-chip Bluetooth solution that will add the wireless standard to phones. ...more

Cabir authors create first Windows Mobile virus

A notorious group of virus writers have targeted another mobile operating system with the first virus for Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. Moscow-based anti-virus experts Kaspersky Labs says it has analysed a virus called Duts that infects the Windows Mobile operating system used in PDAs and mobile phones. The company says it believes the virus to be written by Ratter, the pseudonym of a member of the virus-writing group 29A who were also behind last month's Cabir - the first mobile phone virus on the Symbian platform, which spread via Bluetooth wireless links. ...more

Apple updates iPod software

Apple has released the latest iPod software update, adding new features for users of the photo-enabled models. The update provides iPod photo Software 1.1, which adds support for the iPod Camera Connector, Apple's recently introduced device for importing and viewing photos directly from a camera, and provides updated slideshow transitions. ...more

US consumers lose $2.4bn a year from hacked bank accounts

Hacking into bank accounts via the Web is costing US consumers $2.4bn a year, according to research group Gartner. From a survey of 5,000 web users in April of this year, Gartner has worked out roughly two million consumers in the US have their passwords and authentication stolen and used to access funds from online and telephone accounts every year. ...more