World wide smartphone sales top 10 million

As anyone who has not been living under a stone the past year will tell you, Smartphone sales are booming. Worldwide shipments of smart devices burst through the 10 million milestone and grew at a staggering 82 per cent in the year to the end of March, with a resurgent Nokia commanding half the world's shipments. The figures are contained in the latest smart mobile device survey from research company Canalys covering smartphones, wireless handhelds and handhelds. ...more

Google cuts Sketchup price by 100 per cent

Having acquired renowned 3D application SketchUp earlier this year, Google is planning to make its version of the software available for free. The full, Pro version, by contrast, costs €495, so Google's offer is a more-than-generous introduction to software that has consistently garnered good reviews in MacUser. A Windows version can already be downloaded from sketchup. ...more

Mozilla prepares 1.7 for final release

The latest release candidate of Mozilla 1.7 is now available, focussing primarily on bug fixes before the full release. Nonetheless there are a handful of new features, including an option to prevent sites using Javascript to block the browser's context menu. ...more

W3C to give the Web more meaning

The body that controls Internet standards, the W3C, continues its push to add meaning to Web documents. As part of a wider Semantic Web project it has officially recommended the adoption of two new standards: Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Ontology Web Language (OWL). The goal is help better manage the storage of information on the Web so that its retrieval can be automated more effectively, for example by intelligent agents with specific search briefs. ...more

Slingbox arrives in UK

The popular Slingbox TV device is expanding into Europe with the first stop being the UK. The Slingbox enables consumers to watch TV programmes from wherever they are by turning virtually any Internet-connected Windows-based computer into a personal TV. The Slingbox redirects, or 'placeshifts,' a single live TV stream from a basic aerial connection, cable box, satellite receiver or personal video recorder (PVR) to the viewer's PC - located anywhere in the home, the office, or anywhere else via the Internet. ...more