Microsoft moves north to continue Lindows battle

Microsoft has turned its legal guns on Lindows in Canada. It has issued a lawsuit in Ottawa which attempts to prevent the use of the trademarks 'Lindows', 'Lindows.com' and 'Lindows OS' north of the US border. ...more

Record industry escalates music download legal battle

The RIAA is targeting another 500 music sharers with lawsuits. The organisation has asked a judge for permission to subpoena ISPs to discover the identities of these 'John Does'. Before the subpoenas can be issued, the RIAA has to seek permission following the RIAA vs Verizon case. ...more

Hi-Grade hits the Gigahertz heights

Hi-Grade has announced two 1Ghz PIII notebooks: the UltiNote AS8400 and the Atlas/Hi-Grade Flyer 3400-1000. The former sports an internal CD-R/W and DVD-ROM combo drive. A TV-out socket, coupled with the S3 Savage MX 2x graphics chip, means you can plug it in to the telly once you get back from the office and use it as a standard DVD player. ...more

Orange starts pay as you go 3G

Orange is to launch its first pay as you go 3G service in time for Christmas. Handsets start from ?79.99 and will be available from October. ...more

Seagate to make HD for PS2

Not content with securing the contract to produce the hard drives for the Xbox, it looks as if Seagate will also be providing hard disk hardware for Sony's PlayStation 2. The company is rumoured to be producing two types of hard drive for the PS2 - one to be part of an external unit, the other to be used internally, which seems to indicate that future versions of the PlayStation 2 could come with a hard drive built in. This isn't the only indication that the PS2 is slowly turning into a PC. ...more