Turn your mobile into a virtual pet

If you think playing computer games on your mobile phone is fun then one man in Scotland wants to turn your phone into a tamagotchi. Kevin Bradshaw's company Digital Bridges is developing games for the mobile phone format. At the moment, it offers games such as hangman and noughts and crosses but it is developing fantasy football league (without any famous players) and the virtual pet system. ...more

Be begins free trials of ADSL2+ broadband

Be has begun offering free trials of its ADSL2+ broadband service, which in theory can take speeds up to 24Mbps. The free trial runs until the end of September and if you partake you will subsequently pay ?20 per month 'for life'. Be also throws in an ADSL2+ wireless modem router. ...more

French clothing store pilots porn ads

A French clothing company is out to prove the surprising insight that sex sells and that on the Internet it is possible to show more sex - and presumably shift more product. According to a report in the LA Times Shai clothing has started showing French porn stars cavorting in the buff on a circular bed in a bid to interest the punters in ?60 T-shirts. The ads are also interactive. ...more

Voice over WiMax set to challenge existing DSL implementations, say analysts

Making phone calls via WiMax has the ability to rival DSL and cable-modem VoIP services for the attentions of broadband subscribers, according to market research company In-Stat. InStat estimates that by 2009, three per cent of total broadband subscribers (which will run to around 8.5 million subscribers worldwide) will be using WiMax-based broadband wireless access services. ...more

Ballmer bans boys from Redmond rivals

Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has banned his children from having an iPod. Asked by Fortune magazine whether he himself owned one of the Apple music players he replied that he does not, nor do his kids. They also know which search engine to avoid. ...more