FM transmitters to be legal within days

Ofcom has just announced that FM transmitters will be legal in the UK as of Friday 8 December. The transmitters have been a source of some controversy in the last year, with PC World being rapped on the knuckles for "encouraging the public to break the law". Although it's never been illegal to sell them, it has been illegal to use them. ...more

Sun's StarOffice goes Open Source

The impetus for making proprietary code-bases Open Source has not died out. Sun claims that it has made the single largest Open Source code contribution to date. Sun's StarOffice desktop environment - word processor, database, email, scheduling, web publishing, etc - will be made available on the site www. ...more

AOL announces record losses

AOL Time Warner has had to face up to recording the biggest annual corporate loss in US financial history. The company announced it was in the red to the tune of $98.7bn. ...more

eBay Express pulls into the UK

Online sales giant eBay has launched its eBay Express service in the UK. Debuted in the US earlier this year, eBay Express is a marketplace for selected 'professional sellers' to market their ranges of new goods and services, instantly at a fixed price. The service is likely to take on existing volume Internet suppliers in the UK ranging from Amazon to Tesco. ...more

Price check: TFT monitors

In September, when last we looked, a 15in TFT monitor would set you back ?187. Today, the cheapest we saw was at Dixons in the form of a Proview CY-465 with built-in speakers for ?169.99. ...more