EMI boss denies single-price link with music piracy

The chairman of EMI has said that a single price for music downloads does not deter file sharing. Eric Nicoli made the comments after Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that if the record companies forced a rise in price for some tracks on the iTunes Music Store then its users will 'go back to piracy'. That's 'piracy' as in file sharing not rape and pillage on the open seas. ...more

Sweden's Pirate Party cut short

Sweden's recently formed Pirate Party is expected to win 33,000 votes in the country's national elections, failing to gain the one per cent of the total vote that it needed to gain financial support from the state at future polls. Its share of around 0.6 per cent is also long way short of the four per cent that would have entitled it to a seat in parliament. ...more

Sony puts Blu-ray into its Vaio range

Sony is powering its Blu-ray campaign with a new Vaio notebook and desktop complete with the next-gen optical plumage and HD features. The Vaio AR-Series totes a double-layer Blu-ray Disc optical drive, coupled with 200GB of hard disk space. Even so, that's only four of the 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs. ...more

Kodak recalls 'shock' cameras

Kodak is recalling around 75,000 CD5000 Zoom digital cameras after customers received electric shocks. Kodak heard from 12 customers who were shocked whilst changing batteries or installing or removing the memory card or USB cable. There have been no reports of injuries. ...more

BBC online gears up for complete and collaborative overhaul

The BBC is planning a radical overhaul of its website along the lines of collaborative, interactive sites such as the phenomenally popular MySpace.com. In a presentation entitled Beyond Broadcast, Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media and technology, launched a competition - open. ...more