Thirteen arrested for downloading child pornography

Police raids throughout England and Scotland today have resulted in the arrest of 13 people. In what is thought to be the UK's largest operation of its kind, 13 police forces, co-ordinated by the Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit, seized 27 computers and photographic, video and magazine material, in addition to the arrests. Grampian, Derbyshire, Merseyside, Humberside, Hertfordshire, Thames Valley, West Yorkshire, Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Devon and Cornwall, Sussex and London's Metropolitan forces were involved. ...more

Skype puts incentive behind SkypeOut with free calls

Skype is offering six months of free calls to UK landlines phones. The offer is open to any UK-based Skype user who signs up for ?10 or more of Skype Credit for calls to landline and mobile phones and SMS messaging. Applications must be made by 31 December 2006. ...more

Intel goes smaller and faster

Leading microchip manufacturer Intel has announced that it has developed the world's fastest and smallest transistor, which could totally revolutionise the development of computers. The new transistor is 30 nanometers across in some places and is only three atomic layers thick. The general rule is that the smaller the transistor, the faster it is and this new 30nm transistor could herald an age of sci-fi computing. ...more

OS X 10.2 primed for 24 August

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that Jaguar, the 'wildly innovative' next version of OS X will be released n 24 August. OS X 10.2 takes the operating system onto a new level by incorporating several new technologies and enhancing many of the core OS X applications, such as Mail, Address Book and Sherlock. ...more

breathe breathes on broadband pricing

breathe, the resuscitated ISP, has cut the price of its broadband package. The ISP has cut the price of its ADSL service to ?25.99 per month. ...more