Yahoo now under German fire

German prosecutors are investigating Yahoo over an alleged auction of copies of Hitler's book "Mein Kampf". The news that the company is being investigated comes shortly after France's move to prevent racist material being distributed by auction Web sites. In fact, the sale of Nazi memorabilia is illegal in both France and Germany. ...more

iTunes pushes into top 10 music retailers

Between July and September it outsold the likes of Tower Records and Borders to become the seventh biggest music seller. 'The ongoing and growing popularity of Apple's iTunes Music Store now positions the company as a leading music retailer, and continues to legitimise legal digital music retailing,' said Russ Crupnick, music and movies industry analyst for NPD. 'With the growing interest in digital music, forecasts of more iPod demand this holiday, plus the stocking-stuffer appeal of iTunes gift cards, we can expect Apple to increase its share even more by year's end. ...more

Price Check: USB memory drives

Friday is here again, and with your paycheck in your pocket, it's time to head online for the best prices on... ...more

Tesco pulls ?10m a week online

Tesco announces online sales reached more than ?10m a week for the first time in the last week of November But when is a grocery not a grocery? When it's a DVD film, ?40 console game or any of the other electrical products, books and so on that are now available through the chain. Quite how the figures pan out, Tesco couldn't tell us at the time of writing. Suffice to say that, with these figures still a full month before Christmas, Tesco CEO John Browett is probably expecting bumper figures over the festive season. ...more

Visual Studio.NET for the enterprise

Microsoft has fleshed out more details of its Visual Studio.NET product range. Visual Studio is Microsoft's popular - and increasingly, all-encompassing - development environment. ...more