Swedes make music search out listener

A group of Swedish scientists is working on a technology that automatically delivers music to a phone or MP3 player without the user ever having to ask. The Push!Music technology will look for mobile devices in the vicinity and then read what music is stored on them and what has been listened to in the past. New music is then delivered via the wireless connection. ...more

Toshiba launches first HD DVD laptop

The Qosmio G30/697HS will be the first laptop to feature an HD DVD-ROM drive. Toshiba is launching a version of its high-end, multimedia laptop with the next-gen optical disc support in Japan in mid-May. Along with playback of HD DVD content, the latest Qosmio can read and write DVD and CD discs, including DVD+/-R DL (dual-layer) and DVD-RAM. ...more

A handheld to organise your health

When is a PDA really an essential piece of kit? Maybe, when it is monitoring your health. Targeting the potentially huge medical market, 'Freestyle Tracker' is a new Handspring PDA module that provides a full blood-sugar monitoring system for diabetics. Made by the US company TheraSense, Freestyle Tracker combines the hardware of blood glucose monitoring technology with PalmOS-based diabetes management software. ...more

Apple issues further security update for OS X

Apple has released another security update for OS X, the second in the space of a fortnight. The latest update, for OS X 10.3. ...more

Federation Against Software Theft condemns rogue IT workers

The UK software industry has warned companies to be wary of rogue IT workers after 5,800 illegally downloaded music files were discovered during a software audit of a financial services company. Most files had been downloaded by members of the IT department, the very people, says the Federation Against Software Theft, who should be charged with preventing this happening. 'All too often IT policy enforcement and management is left solely to the IT department, in the belief that when IT staff say that correct licences are in place, they are,' said John Lovelock, director general of FAST. ...more