UK games chart: World of Warcraft rules

World of Warcraft has gone straight in at number one in this week's ELSPA UK Games Chart. Blizzard Entertainment's massively multiplayer online role-playing game - MMORPG to its friends - reaps the reward of having an eight million worldwide user base. Burning Crusade is the game's first expansion, and was released last Wednesday. ...more

The price of high-bandwidth services

Oftel has published a survey of international pricing for high-bandwidth services. It covers the provision of high-speed telecom connections to consumers in France, Germany, USA and the UK. The very broad picture for the provision of broad-bandwidth connections is that the UK and France are vying for positions behind Germany and the US in terms of the price and variety of services available. ...more

IBM and Adobe lock up PDFs

Acrobat 6.0 keys into IBM security software IBM and Adobe have announced new security features that take advantage of Adobe's Acrobat 6.0 and IBM's encryption utilities. ...more

Find your way with a PDA

Getting lost may soon become a whole lot harder for PDA users with the launch of Garmin's new iQue 3600. This much trailed new personal digital assistant is claimed to be the first device fitted with built-in Global Positioning System (GPS) running on Palm OS 5. The iQue features a Motorola's DragonBall MXL processor with an Arm9 core and 32 Mb of RAM. ...more

Virgin Media cuts broadband speeds for heavy downloaders

Virgin Media has confirmed that it has begun implementing traffic shaping for around five per cent of its broadband users. The ISP, formerly ntl:Telewest, said that it occasionally moderates downstream speeds for subscribers 'downloading an unusually large amount' of data, sometimes as much as 3GB, during the peak 4pm-to-midnight period. 'Our boffins recently ran a trial to see how much our service was being affected,' it explained. ...more