CRT recycling project switched on

Wrap, a UK-based waste management company, has begun investigating the best ways to recycle CRTs from PCs and TVs. Currently very few CRTs are recycled. But the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive seeks to change that with new weight-based targets that have to be met by the end of December 2006. ...more

US gamers to enjoy PS2 price cuts

The PlayStation 2 games console is seeing an official 13 per cent price cut in the States, down from $149.99 to $129.99. ...more

3G operators 'could miss out on the business market'

3G operators need to start pushing the technology to businesses before WiFi phones get a foothold, according to research group Canalys. In its latest report on the mobile phone market, Canalys says that shipments of 3G phones int eh EMEA region are up 39 per cent in the third quarter to 1.8mn, with a bigger rise expected in the run up to Christmas. ...more

Software piracy hampering economic growth - IDC survey

The illegal copying and distribution of software is so widespread that it is hampering economic growth, according to an IDC survey commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. An estimated 35 per cent of the software in circulation is pirated and that figure is falling by no more than one per cent each year. Such is the extent of organised piracy, the report notes, that it has become a legitimate business in some countries. ...more

Fresh security flaw found in Sony DRM component

Nothing appears to be going right for Sony at the moment. Fresh from allegations of unfair price fixing and the controversy surrounding certain of its copy-protected CDs, a major security flaw has been discovered in another DRM technology that it uses. To be fair to Sony, this time the flaw is not in the DRM itself, SunnComm's MediaMax, but in SunnComm's uninstaller. ...more