Genie to play Nokia games

Two of the biggest corporations in the mobile world joined forces yesterday as Genie (BT's mobile Internet portal) and Nokia agreed a deal that will see Nokia supplying Genie customers with mobile games. The partnership means Nokia will be supplying WAP games to over five million of Genie's registered users. Nokia's portfolio includes games from companies such as Rage, Eidos and Activision. ...more

NTP hits Palm with patent suit

Patent firm NTP says it filed a patent infringement suit against Palm, maker of Treo smartphones. The company claims Palm's mobile devices and services infringe seven NTP patents and seeks uspecified monetary damages arising from that infringement. The infringement claims are around the mechanisms used within email services where they use wireless communications to supply services to mobile processors. ...more

Price change means new winner in PC Pro lab test

Increased memory prices have caused Evesham to hike the price of its Axis 1900+, the Mesh XP 1800+ GTi2 is now the official winner. Due to a further increase in the price of DDR memory, evesham.com has been forced into raising the price of the Evesham Axis 1900+ by ?50. ...more

Microsoft accepts new name for Windows minus Media Player

Microsoft has accepted the European Commission's name for its forthcoming version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player. The EC ruled last week that both the Home and Pro version should be appended with N to designate the absence of Media Player; they will therefore be known as Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional Edition N. Microsoft had originally suggested calling the software Windows XP Reduced Media Edition, but that was rejected by the EC as too pejorative. ...more

BBC looks to BitTorrent for new audience

The BBC is to make classic programming available in high definition through a BitTorrent file-sharing service. The deal falls under the BBC's initiatve to attract as large an audience as possible and will include popular series such as Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and the League of Gentleman, as well as classic episodes of Fawlty Towers. Downloads will be protected with DRM, so will prevent the programs from being illegally shared. ...more