Billy Bragg protests Bebo's Ts and Cs

Having persuaded the MySpace website to alter its claims to the rights of music it hosts, Billy Bragg has urged rival social networking site Bebo to do the same. During a live web chat on MediaGuardian.co. ...more

Muso-mobiles cool on WMA, hot on iPod

The success of the iPod is, it seems, having an impact on other portable devices, notably mobile phones. New phones announced this week by Nokia and Sony Ericsson are noticeable for the fact that their integrated music players will play all the iPod-friendly formats - MP3, M4A and AAC - but not Microsoft's proprietary WMA. Now, if you had asked us 18 months ago, we would have pessimistically projected that WMA was ultimately destined to usurp MP3's position at the top of the digital music pile. ...more

Apple uses DMCA to close down hacker sites

Two websites that report on efforts to make Mac OS X run on non-Apple computers were closed down on Friday after receiving legal notices from Apple, citing violations of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). One of the sites was later restored after removing posts from its forums According to the Associated Press (via The Washington Post, the sites featured links to information explaining how to hack the Intel-compatible version of Apple's operating system. Under a controversial clause of the DMCA it is illegal to circumvent or provide information about how to circumvent digital rights management technology designed to prevent the unauthorised use of copyright-protected material. ...more

Palm hits four straight quarters of 100 per cent revenue growth

Palm couldn't quite escape the gloom surrounding technology stocks - after beating analysts' expectations for its quarterly results, it promptly saw it shares take a fall. Palm reported a record revenue of $522.2m in its second quarter results (ending 1 December) for the fiscal year 2001. ...more

Buffalo announces two new 802.11g wireless products

Buffalo has announced two new 802.11g, 54Mbit/sec wireless products for extending a wireless network. First up is the the AirStation WLI-TX1-G54 [left], which plugs into any device with an Ethernet port to provide wireless access. ...more