Madonna breaks Webcast records

At 9pm yesterday evening, Madonna's first gig in the UK for eight years was cast live over the Web, attracting more than nine million viewers. Madonna fans logged in to the MSN Webcast in record-breaking numbers to see the Brixton academy show, although the queen of pop played just six songs. Tickets for the 3,000 capacity venue were like gold dust, changing hands over a number of charity auction sites for as much as ?1,102 each. ...more

Videoconferencing gets instant messaging

Messing around with video conferencing software can be great fun and now CUseeMe aims to make it even more fun with its instant video messaging software. The latest offering of CUseeMe, v5.0, allows users to create a "buddy list", which notifies them whenever a friend is online. ...more

Intel and Microsoft plan mobile assault

Reuters reports that the tech giants are planning to knock off Nokia's crown and mash Motorola. Intel and Microsoft are to collaborate on offering a platform for handset manufacturers. Optimising Windows CE . ...more

Samsung begins mass production of world's fast memory

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips has announced that it has started to produce its next generation 256Mbit eXtreme Data Rate (XDR) DRAM in commercial quantities. XDR-DRAM is said to be around 10 times faster than the DDR-SDRAM commonly found in today's PCs and five times faster than RDRam with a throughput of 8Gb per second. Later this year the company said it will begin the manufacture of 512Mbit parts that can transmit data at the speed of 12. ...more

PlayStation emulator still on sale

An emulator that can enable PC and Mac users to play PlayStation games on their machines wins a temporary reprieve in the US high courts. The Supreme Court has decided to stay out of the dispute between Connectix and Sony over the Virtual Game Station PlayStation emulator and has allowed Connectix to continue selling the software until a lower court rules on Sony's claim of unfair competition. The Virtual Game Station does not contain any of Sony's copyrighted software but they did extract code from the PlayStation in order to develop their own software. ...more