Yeah I know, the Pirate Bay aren’t exactly the last bastions of copyright law, but it’s important to realise that they don’t peddle piracy, they merely allow those who want, to share what they have. Again, the word “Pirate” in their name doesn’t exactly lend themselves well to the RIAA or MPAA or the other [...]

According to Tiscali, the use of the BBC’s iPlayer is having a detrimental effect on their network. All very interesting, considering that other ISPs (BT and Virgin Media) are quoted as saying they can’t see a difference in their network performance. And if things don’t get any better, Tiscali say the users are going to [...]

After successful trials in the States, Amazon are going to offer their music store globally now which will be direct competition with Apple’s Music Store. The big difference with Amazon’s offering is that the music will have no Digital Rights Management (DRM) tied into it – meaning anyone can buy the songs, and download to [...]

If you’re not familiar with the term “wall walker”, I think you’ve probably seen the thing I mean: They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, an octopus, spiders, a man & even cars. They have a sticky underside and they slowly make their way down to the bottom of a door or wall. [...]

You know, I actually remember this advert. This word-processor (when they used to be dedicated machines) was aired circa 1985 – one of my favourite lines is “has a big 256K Memory.” Wow, really? But then we have to remember this was the time when the 128K spectrum had just been released… And all this [...]

Well after the [shock news] of two of the major film studios running away from the HD-DVD format, it appears that the news has not been missed by the general buying public. Many thought that the only listeners to the threat that HD-DVD would crumble, would be the geeks, but I’ve got news for you [...]

If you sign up for the initial flights with Virgin Galactic it will set you back a cool £100,000 with a 10% deposit on booking your flight. For this, though, you will “officially” go into space and experience weightlessness. A bargain at twice the price (or at least in my opinion!) The company, funded fully [...]

H2O Networks, based in Merseyside, are soon to install a fibre network into the sewers of either Bournemouth, Dundee or Northampton. The choice is up to the local councils apparently in who gets their paperwork ready first. The first “fibrecity” project will be announced in April, and will take approximately 18 months to complete. So [...]

A student of MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is going to fight back after being threatened and ordered to pay a fine by the RIAA for sharing mp3′s and other types of music over the internet. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) are renowned for singling out students and single mothers to scrape [...]

In a story that has made an appearance in Tech.co.uk today, the East Japan Railway Company have installed piezoelectric generators in the floor of a ticket gate in a bizarre field study. The generator will capture the commuters’ stepping power as they walk through the gates. The amount of power produced at the gates is [...]