EU sets 2012 date for digital TV

EU ministers have a set a Europe-wide date for the switch from analogue to digital TV broadcasts, and it is 2012. This suits the UK (and we currently hold the EU Presidency) as our own government-set date for switching has drifted from the original 2010 to 2012. A European Commission spokesman said that 10 of the 25 member states expect to go digital by 2010 but five have made no indication of whether they will make the change by 2012, reports Reuters,. ...more

Celeron sells for less

Intel has announced price cuts for its current range of desktop Celeron processors. The move is seen as paving the way for a new faster family of Celerons, based upon its NetBurst architecture currently used in P4s. The price cuts comprise of 12 per cent off the 1. ...more

Searching for Anna Kournikova's endorsement

Lycos has signed up Anna Kournikova and it's nothing to do with email viruses. At a cost of $10m it gets the real person - well, at least it gets her endorsement. The Russian tennis star - better known for her good looks than for her tournament success - has agreed a deal with the Web search engine and portal to appear in upcoming television and online adverts. ...more

AOL acquires Advertising.com to reach beyond the walled garden

AOL has bought Internet marketing group Advertising.com for $435 million. This is AOL's biggest splash in the acquisitions market since its merger with Time Warner in 2000 and shows a renewed confidence in the online advertising market. ...more

Nokia launches fleet of new phones

Nokia pronounces 'game on', with new multimedia handsets Yesterday Nokia launched new phones at the Nokia Mobile Internet Conference in Munich. Chief Executive Jorma Ollila said Nokia would ship between 50 and 100 million of the colour-display mobile phones in 2003, with 10 million offering organiser functionality and email services. The most notable is the Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck [pictured], the first of a new mobile game deck product category. ...more