BPI banks on British desire for legal music

A BPI survey has revealed 2.5m people in the UK are burning 126m CDs every year. BPI executive chairman Peter Jamieson said, 'This survey provides a unique insight into the greatest growth opportunity for the music industry since the launch of the compact disc. ...more

AMD Opteron to shadow Intel Xeon pricing

At the end of July, AMD re-jigged its pricing for the 64-bit Opteron server range to make way for a new release, the Model 246, which appeared earlier this week. From now on, however - according to reports on the Net - AMD will be explicitly shadowing the price charged for Intel's 32-bit server processor, the Xeon. Effectively, AMD is serving notice of higher charges for subsequent Opteron chips. ...more

Games to blame for rise in UK inflation

The latest figures from the government's National Statistics Office reveal that our love of games, DVDs and computers is fuelling inflation. According to the office, the Consumer Prices Index, by which the Government measures the level of inflation, rose from 1.5 per cent in May to 1. ...more

Google five today

Google celebrates its fifth birthday today, but some thing's never change, as its latest figures for the most popular search terms show. With Big Brother out of the way, celebrities and cheap flights dominate the list of the ten most popular Google queries in the UK, with the exception of Argos at number two and chart toppers Blu Cantrell tenth. The complete top ten is: 1. ...more

Palm announces MP3 package

Palm has announced a digital music package for its m100 and m105 handhelds, incorporating the port?son MP3 player and Liquid Player Plus software. The port?son is an MP3 player that 'snaps on' to the back on the Palm, with 32 or 64MB of built-in flash memory expandable via a SD/MMC flash card expansion port. When connected to a Palm it can be used with Liquid Player Plus to import music, rip music from CDs and manage play lists and burn CDs via the port?son's USB connection. ...more