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Indie record labels seeing gold

News The news comes after years in which independent labels had complained about being treated as second-class citizens by the big digital music services. Radio giants Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting have cut ties to independent promoters, a...

27 July 2005, 10:16

Sex workers call for 'GTA' boycott

News The firms, Milberg Weiss and Stull Stull & Brody, are seeking class action status. Milberg Weiss said in a press release on Monday that Take-Two engaged in fraudulent and illegal conduct during the class period so that insiders could sell more than...

17 February 2006, 8:48

Stanford University use iTunes to distribute lectures

News Now, the school plans to incorporate iPods into classes throughout the university as a way of storing class materials for use any time and anywhere. Other institutions, including Brown University, the University of Michigan's School of Dentistry...

4 November 2005, 8:51

Intel draws notebook and desktop chip lines together

News Intel now grades its chips by megahertz, but starting in May, the company's chips will come with model numbers: 700 class chips, like the 755, will be for notebooks; 500 class chips will fit into desktops, while 300 class chips will go into budget...

30 March 2004, 7:30

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News Credit: Navy photo/MCS 2nd Class Chris Fahey Credit: Navy photo/MCS 2nd Class Chris Fahey Credit: Navy photo/MCS 2nd Class Chris Fahey Los Angeles to San Diego. On Wednesday, President Bush declared that a major disaster exists in seven Southern...

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 9:02

Microsoft sued over Vista marketing

News According to the legal action, which was filed as a class action suit in Seattle on Thursday, "consumers were falsely led to believe they would be upgraded to a dramatically new operating system bearing the key features marketed by Microsoft".

5 April 2007, 9:39

Rail passengers to get free Wi-Fi ride

News GNER completed the £3.2m installation of Wi-Fi broadband connectivity on all 41 of its east-coast trains last year and, although the service is free for first-class passengers, those in standard have to pay either £2.95 per half hour or £9.95 for...

15 August 2007, 10:17

W3C launches a mobile push

News Mobile access to the Web has been a second-class experience for far too long," Web founding father and W3C director Tim Berners-Lee said in a statement. MWI recognises the mobile device as a first-class participant, and will produce materials to...

12 May 2005, 11:12

BitTorrent launches digital media store

News If the notorious file-sharing software BitTorrent was once the class bully, a version set to debut today is more like the teacher's pet. The 45-employee company that calls itself BitTorrent is planning to use its software to launch a download site...

26 February 2007, 9:58

Apple faces lawsuit over iPod hearing loss

News A Louisiana man has filed a class action suit against Apple, saying the computer maker has failed to take adequate steps to prevent hearing loss among iPod users. The suit, filed on Tuesday in US District Court in San Jose, California, charges that...

3 February 2006, 9:29

News.blog: Phones a problem in lectures, says study

News Although few university students actually take mobile phone calls in class, sending and receiving text messages during a lecture has become an acceptable part of mobile phone culture, according to research from James Katz, professor of...

2 December 2005, 9:19

Small hard drives faster than ever

News Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market.

17 January 2007, 9:22

Online privacy case thrown out

News In a decision dated 6 June, US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson ruled that seven consolidated class action lawsuits against Northwest had no merit -- in part because the privacy policy posted on the airline's Web site was unenforceable unless...

16 June 2004, 14:45

'Boring' IT classes put off future careers

News The UK's status as a world class IT nation is being threatened by a skills black hole which is getting bigger ever year as fewer and fewer kids choose to study computing. The teaching of IT in secondary schools needs radically overhauling as it is...

Tags: kids, industry, entry, study

18 June 2008, 8:55

Photos: A2's flights of hypersonic fancy

News And imagine, too, paying no more for that junket than you would for a current business class ticket. Imagine having a late breakfast in Europe and then dinner in Australia, all in the same day. No time zone trickery involved.

Tags: engines, achieve, term, plane

7 February 2008, 9:36