CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner heads top 10 downloads

For your reference, here are the latest top 10 downloads of PC Software from our Downloads section. Leading the way is CleanMyPC Registry Cleaner, which scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information (1.12MB of shareware). ...more

Gender gap extends to the Web

It would seem that the gender gap extends to the Web according to a new survey that looked at the way that men and women respond to different website designs. According to the researchers at the Glamorgan University Business School, both the content, as you might expect, and the design of a site will determine whether it is chiefly visited by men or women. It seems that men prefer sites designed by men, while women prefer a woman's hand. ...more

Delayed Vista and sluggish Blu-ray cast market shadow

The delayed release of Windows Vista and the sluggish rollout of Blu-ray and HD DVD are causing concern in the PC market , following significant falls in the share prices of Dell, HP and Apple, BusinessWeek reports. There is also the prospect of a price war coupled with a general economic slowdown. 'There's a softness in the market that's building,' Richard Shim, a senior research analyst at IDC, told BW. ...more

W3C extends voice through browsers

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that sets and advances the standards for the web has developed a new version of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). The new version offers language extensions to a number of Asian languages but also takes the first steps towards offering speech verification over the Internet. The demand for increased security and the growth of VoIP services has meant there is now a demand for speech verification systems through browsers. ...more

Symbian licenses ARM Jazelle technology

The UK chip-designer ARM is in the news twice over: licensing technology for Java on mobiles and reporting healthy financial results. Symbian has become the first OS vendor to license ARM's Jazelle technology, which enables mobile devices to run interactive Java applications, whether they involve gaming, banking or on-line ticketing. The goal is to attract more Java developers to Symbian's EPOC platform, because developers mean applications and applications mean content, which can only help to establish Symbian's position as the OS of choice for mobile devices, such as Nokia's 9210 Communicator. ...more