Credit card sized 10Gb drives

A new data storage technology is in development that should put optical storage back on the map for speed, size and capacity. A company called Constellation 3D is working on fluorescent multi-layer disk (FMD) technology. This will allow the production of DVD-sized discs that can store up to 100Gb and credit card-sized 10Gb drives - which could easily handle the growing multimedia content available for mobile devices. ...more

Eclipse rewards friends and family broadband

Eclipse Internet is offering ?30 rewards for its broadband subscribers who persuade friends and family to sign up. Eclipse Connect will pay ?30 for each friend who switches from another service provider and ?15 for any friends who sign up to their first broadband connection. 'The excellent quality of service and customer services that we've provided for ten years has been the backbone of our business and the reason that our customers recommend us to their friends and families,' said Luke Lang, marketing manager at Eclipse Internet. ...more

UK leads Europe for Web activity

According to a review of European net activity conducted by comScore, the UK is home to the most active online population in Europe. Users, on average, spend almost the equivalent of a working week (34.4 hours) on the web each month. ...more

The call of the mobile

As dusk settles on the city on a Friday evening, a chorus of marsh frogs can be heard calling to each other. Or is it a flock of Canada geese preparing for migration? No, it's the tech-savvy in-crowd organising their night out on mobile phones loaded with the latest ring tones from the British Library. The British Library has made a collection of 100,000 audio files of nature at its wildest available to mobile companies and ISPs to be used as ringtones on the latest, polyphonic, mobile handsets. ...more

TimeWarner threatens to set the lawyers on YouTube

The CEO of TimeWarner is threatening to sue YouTube for 'breach of copyright', according to newspaper reports. Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner told The Guardian, 'You can assume we're in negotiations with YouTube and that those negotiations will be kicked up to the Google level in the hope that we can get to some acceptable position.' The threat follows similar warnings from News Corp. ...more