Sony hits you with its Infostick

Bluetooth is a major buzzword at the moment and every electronics company seems to be developing a Bluetooth product. Sony has now stepped forward to reveal a piece of Bluetooth kit that is small and sweet - like a stick of gum. The new Sony Infostick may look like one of its range of Memory Stick cards and could indeed be passed off as a stick of chewing gum, but it is not. ...more

UK games chart: Need for Speed is still the most wanted

The rise of The Sims 2 and Pro Evolution Soccer 5 can not dislodge the long-time reigning champ from the top of the ELSPA UK games chart. EA's street racing game Need For Speed: Most Wanted still holds the number one position. King Kong: Official Game of The Movie slips from two down to four, with The Sims and Pro Evolution Soccer doing their best to take advantage, but this weeks chart is still static, in the wake of the Christmas spending bonanza. ...more

Brit pensioner becomes online video star

A British widower, known only as Peter and who goes by the name 'geriatric1927', is the latest star of the video-sharing site YouTube. His views on life backed with a blues soundtrack have made him a big hit with the teens and twenty-somethings who frequent the site. Peter's first posting a week ago has now garnered an astonishing 447,440 views. ...more

Pentagon defends war on YouTube and MySpace

The Pentagon has defended its decision to block popular websites including YouTube and MySpace on US military computers, saying it needed to keep its network clear for operations. Military officials said they had restricted access to more than a dozen recreational sites because they had registered high levels of use on Department of Defense computers. Rear Adm. ...more

New bug-fixed version of Firefox released

The open source consortium Mozilla has released a new version of its popular Firefox browser this week. Version 1.0. ...more