Napster debuts a premium version of its music subscription service

Napster has launched a premium version of its music subscription service that allows you to download music to up to three MP3 players and three desktops or notebooks. For ?14.95 a month you get access to the 1 million-strong catalogue under Napster To Go, a service the company claims is 'the world's first portable subscription music service'. ...more

Cable & Wireless buys broadband provider Bulldog for ?19mn

Cable & Wireless has bought broadband provider Bulldog for ?18.6mn. The telecoms company said that it was attracted by Bulldog's emphasis on local loop unbundling (LLU), in preference to reselling BT products. ...more

Internet radio hits new high for BBC

The BBC has announced record demand for its Internet radio streams, with 12.5 million requests logged in September 2006. Radio 4's rural soap The Archers was the most popular on-demand, 'Listen Again' programme with 682,304 post-broadcast requests over the month, followed by Chris Moyles' Radio 1 breakfast show with 503,088. ...more

Tiscali cuts ?115 from broadband cost

Tiscali is offering new Broadband Plus customers free activation and a free modem, a saving - it says - of ?115. Its Broadband Plus service is consistently one of the fastest in the country, currently ranked seventh in ADSLguide's monthly survey. Tiscali Broadband Plus costs ?27 per month; further details at www. ...more

PS3 gets March date for UK launch

Sony said on Thursday it will launch the high-end version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console on 23 March in Europe, but it has no plan at the moment to offer the basic model there. The electronics and entertainment conglomerate last September delayed the European launch of the PS3, Sony's most important strategic product for this business year, to March from November due to a production glitch. 'We will focus on the launch of the one with a 60GB drive and have no plan now to introduce the 20 gigabyte model,' Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Satoshi Fukuoka said. ...more