Google does the Writely thing

Google has added yet another online service to its ever expanding portfolio with the acquisition of Upstartle, a small company that owns Writely.com. Writely is one of a new breed of websites that provide functionality that had traditionally been the domain of desktop applications. ...more

HP claims PC top spot

Last year's HP-Compaq merger took the new company to the top of the PC sales league for 2002, according to Gartner Dataquest. Despite selling 9.3 per cent fewer computers than the two separate companies managed in 2001, HP claimed 16. ...more

Classical music sees digital benefits

Of all the musical genres that have benefited from the emergence of the digital music market, perhaps the most unexpected is classical. While classical music accounts for less then four per cent of CD sales, it makes up 12 per cent of downloads from Apple's iTunes Music Store. A genre that many thought was dying out has made a surprising revival. ...more

Search engines unite to fight spam

In a rare show of unity, all three of the major search engines have acted together act to fight the practice of comment spam. This is the practice where someone will comment on a particular article and add a link to their own web site purely to gain additional rankings in a search engine. Because search engine spiders will follow any link on a page, and award the linked site a page rank value based on the rank on the originating page, the practice of comment spam has become an epidemic throughout the web. ...more

UPDATED: Adobe releases its second Album

Adobe has released a new version of Photoshop Album its software for managing, editing and sharing digital images. The software is designed to make organising and sharing digital images as easy as possible. Once installed it automatically scans your computer and creates a catalogue of all the images you have stored. ...more