UK games chart: FIFA 07 is number one

The long summer logjam, with Cars dominating the charts, has well and truly broken up as the autumn big-hitters begin to arrive. The Ronaldinho-fronted EA football game FIFA 07 (DS, GBA, GC, Mob, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb, Xb360) scores an early lead by going straight in at number one, in this week's ELSPA Games Chart, with Eidos's regime-changing Just Cause (PC, PS2, X360, Xb) and EA's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 holding number two and three. Other new entries include Square Enix's Disney-based Kingdom Hearts II (PS2), straight in at number five, and the much-trumpeted Company of Heroes (PC), the real-time WWII strategy game from THQ, going in at number seven. ...more

Nokia pushes multimedia to the messagers

Nokia makes multimedia messaging available to 'old' phones. With over 50 billion SMS messages sent globally in the first quarter this year, it's no wonder Nokia are counting on this enthusiastic group to become early consumer adopters for GPRS and 3G. Pekka Salonoja, Vice President, Server Software Products, Nokia: "Within the industry legacy phone support plays a crucial role in the initial deployment of multimedia messaging services. ...more

Palm's CEO steps down

Palm, the maker of handheld computers, has announced that its chief executive Carl Yankowski has resigned. While Palm is under-pressure in the ever-more crowded PDA market - Toshiba was yet another recent entry with the Pocket PC e570 - Yankowski has officially attributed his departure to the splitting of Palm into two elements. The company decided in July to spin off its Platform Solutions Group (responsible for the development of the Palm OS and its licensing) into a wholly-owned subsidiary by the end of 2001. ...more

Yahoo! lists UK's weird and wonderful websites

You might have thought the far corners of the Internet are places a decent citizen may not want to delve. But Yahoo! has leafed through what the UK has to offer online to come up with its top eight weird and wonderful websites in its annual Finds of The Year awards. Topping the weird and wonderful category is the web presence of the cloud appreciation society. ...more

Students put the iTunes rating system to use

Students at the University of Illinois have developed software that recommends music based on the ratings you have given to tracks in iTunes. The recommendations are generated by comparing your ratings to those of others who are using the software. It even works if you haven't rated your songs, by creating an approximate rating based on the number of times a track has been played. ...more