RIM shapes the BlackBerry Pearl for consumers

BlackBerry builder Research In Motion has launched its first consumer-targeted smartphone: the Pearl. The candy-stick style phone incorporates a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, multimedia software with support for MP3 and ACC music files and MPEG4 and H. ...more

My MP3.com, the second time around

The service that launched a thousand lawsuits against MP3.com has re-launched, but this time around no one is getting into any trouble. The re-vamped service is no longer a free-for-all. ...more

Flaw found in OS X disk image handler

A vulnerability in disk image handling could compromise the security of a Mac OS X system, Secunia reports. The security firm says that the vulnerability is caused by to an error in com.apple. ...more

Quiz JK Rowling on latest Potter in live Webcast

JK Rowling is to read from latest Harry Potter novel and participate in a question and answer session at the Royal Albert Hall, which will be streamed live over the Web. The event, kicking off a 4pm on 26 June, will be hosted by Stephen Fry, and will see JK Rowling read extracts from Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix to 4,000 schoolchildren. Rowling will take questions live over the Internet during the event and BT and MSN are running a competition inviting children to submit questions to the author, some of which will be put to Rowling via giant video screens. ...more

Sony squashes the Walkman Bean

Just six months after unveiling its rival to the iPod shuffle, Sony has ceased production of the Walkman Bean. Despite, or perhaps because of, its stand-out design, plus a staggering 50-hour battery life, the Bean was unable to make an impression on the shuffle's market share, which by all accounts has risen in the six months since the Bean's release. Sony has also has problems with the way its Connect software works with its players - not wholly surprising since until recently software and hardware were developed by different parts of the company. ...more