Wii needs more games

Since its release six months ago, the surprisingly popular Nintendo Wii has touched off a scramble in the video-game software industry as developers and publishers have rushed to cash in on the lucrative opportunities generated by the innovative console more...

BT claims UK broadband supremacy

BT has overtaken Virgin Media to once again become the UK's largest broadband provider, the telecom firm has said. The group said it had won 26% of the market and now had 3.66 million broadband customers more...

Database spreads news more quickly

The Telegraph Media Group has deployed a database engine to speed up development of multimedia news content. The newspaper’s production team manages the planning of its images and web-page construction. It is using the database to provide news, audio, video and photography content simultaneously to editorial and production teams more...

Young women dominate UK net scene

Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. Women in the 18 - 34 age group account for 18% of all online Britons more...

Halo 3 beta extended after delay

Thousands of gamers were unable to play the multiplayer test version of Halo 3 on Wednesday due to technical problems. Players were unable to download the beta program and hundreds of people left messages on the maker's official website complaining about the issue more...

Wireless to connect St Helens

Liverpool University is working with a local school to provide low-cost wireless access for a community in St Helens. The first pilot of Community Grid is being rolled out from St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community College of Business and Enterprise in St Helens, initially providing access to 250 homes. The service will be free of charge for a year, after which time users will have pay a subsidised fee more...

Halo 3 confirmed for Sept 26 launch

Bungie has announced that Halo 3 will launch in the US on September 25 and Europe on September 26, 2007. And just in case you forgot, the public multiplayer beta was due to go live yesterday at 1 more...

Holographics set to feed a market hungry for data backup

Could magnetic tapes, hard drives and optical disc formats like Blu-ray be replaced by a data storage format that uses holograms? The world's first commercial holographic storage system is launched this autumn, with the product able to store the equivalent of 64 DVD movies on a disc about the size of a CD more...

Dismay at eBay's unsatisfactory response to 'bid shielding' offences

Lucy thought she had got something good: she was selling her tickets for the NME tour at the Brixton Academy on eBay, and with just 20 minutes to go the highest bid of £21 had abruptly been trumped by one for £56. The only odd thing was the new high bidder had no eBay feedback - suggesting they were very new to eBay. With the new offer so far over the others, nobody more bothered to bid more...

Cable gets committed to open standards at last

Despite years of development and disappointment, interactive television could be closer to deployment across cable systems in the United States. At least that’s the plan. The Open Cable Application Platform was a hot topic at The Cable Show in Las Vegas. American Cable operators Comcast, Time Warner and Cox appear to be ready to roll out support for OCAP but they are still looking for compelling applications for interactive television more...

Workhouse comes to life online

Sad and sometimes gruesome details of life inside one of the UK's most famous 19th-century workhouses have come to light for the first time, thanks to a new website. Thousands of documents detailing the daily grind of life at the Southwell Workhouse in Nottinghamshire have been digitised to allow people to see the kind of lives led by their desperately poor ancestors more...

Halo 3 launch date is announced

Hugely popular video game Halo 3 is due for a September debut, Microsoft has announced. The September release date is earlier than expected and will help Microsoft in its drive to make the Xbox 360 console the gaming machine of choice this Christmas more...

Sussex NHS trusts improve IT resource management

Sussex Health Informatics Service (Sussex HIS), which provides IT services to all 11 NHS trusts in the Sussex region, is implementing a resource management system to streamline its IT infrastructure. The new system, Novell's ZENworks, will deliver asset management, remote desktop control and application deployment more...

Malware 'hijacks Windows Updates'

Virus writers may be able to smuggle malicious files onto a computer using Microsoft's security patch updates, experts say. At least one program is in circulation that can hijack a key component of Windows Update to introduce malicious software that could be used to hijack a computer more...

PS3 launch costs hit Sony profits

Electronics giant Sony has reported a large fall in annual operating profits following the launch of its PlayStation 3 games console. The cost of launching the PS3 console contributed to a 68% drop in operating profits to 71.8bn yen ($597m; £300m) for the year to 31 March more...

RAZR2 – Motorola finally releases the true next-gen RAZR

After the incredible success of the RAZR came a range of updates including different colours, the original 3G RAZR, the new slim 3G RAZR, the KRZR and the RIZR – but the RAZR 2 is the true next-gen update we’ve all been waiting for more...

Online fraud to soar to £1.5bn

Online fraud is costing UK retailers as much as £580m a year, and could rise to £1.5bn by 2010, according to research published today. Almost two thirds of retailers (64 per cent) admit falling victim to online theft and 36 per cent say it has increased since the introduction of chip-and-PIN more...

Devon villagers chip in for mobile coverage platform

Community leaders in a south Devon village are planning to build a concrete platform so those wanting to use their mobile phones can climb up and use it to pick up a network signal. The 200 residents of East Prawle can't get coverage from any of the mobile phone networks more...

Microsoft's Vista sales power up

Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has sold close to 40 million copies of its new Vista operating system, chairman Bill Gates has said. Mr Gates said sales had been quicker than Microsoft expected, and made Vista the firm's quickest selling software more...

Web safety warning for children

More than half of children in the UK using the internet have had an "unwanted experience", a poll suggests. The NSPCC found 50.4% of 2,053 children had experienced problems such as bullying, being threatened or sexually harassed while online more...

T-Mobile pulling ahead in race to become European iPhone carrier

Everyone and their brother(s) have been trying to predict which mobile phone network will get the nod as Apple's European partner for the iPhone, and it appears Apple is getting closer to a decision. Apple and the European carriers are hoping that big iPhone sales will make the exclusive distribution a lucrative one, so of course Apple is taking its sweet time in choosing a European carrier for the launch more...

Web 2.0 'distracts good design'

Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served more...

LG.Philips unleashes world's first "paper-thin" color display

LG.Philips LCD, one of the world's top producers of thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs), announced on Sunday that it has developed the world's first 14.1-inch electronic paper (e-paper) display that is as flexible as paper, a second breakthrough in e-paper for the company, which introduced the world's first 14.1-inch black and white flexible e-paper display in May 2006 more...