Music industry targets nearly 1,000 with file-sharing suits

The music industry has launched its biggest ever number of legal actions against alleged file sharers, targeting 963 people in 11 countries. They include action by the BPI against 33 UK users of KaZaA, DirectConnect, BearShare, SoulSeek, Grokster and Imesh, bringing the total in this country to 90, the first 26 of which have been settled out of court to a total of ?50,000. 'We have warned people time and again that unauthorised filesharing is against the law,' BPI general counsel Geoff Taylor said. ...more

Nokia, Palm still dominate PDA and mobile phone markets

Nokia and Palm managed to maintain their leads in the PDA and phone markets in 2002, despite pressure from competitors and the entry of Microsoft. Researh into mobile device market in the 2002 from analystsCanalys puts the total number of shipments in the EMEA market to over 1.6 million, up 25 per cent on 2001. ...more

New Media New Charity

In terms of charity, we British are not as generous with our donations as we sometimes like to think, being left well behind in the giving-stakes by our more charitable American cousins, for example. But new research suggests this may change. We often run stories that show the Net in its darker and stranger form, so we are more than happy to balance the picture with a more positive report of online behaviour - the emergence through the Internet of "young and well-informed" donors. ...more

Buy broadband, get a 'free PC'

Redten Internet is raising the stakes in the highly-competitive broadband market by offering a free PC with every connection. The company will offer a Pentium 4 based system to every customer who signs up for three years of 8Mb broadband, costing ?19.99 per month. ...more

Konica Minolta exits digital camera market

Konica Minolta has announced that it is withdrawing from the digital camera market and transferring its assets to Sony. The two companies have been jointly developing digital SLR cameras since July 2005 with the lenses and bodies being supplied by Konica Minolta. The transfer of assets will enable camera owners to continue to use Maxxum/Dynax lenses, which Sony has committed to supporting with compatible mounts in future camera models. ...more