Wil Harris

Musicians continue to defy content industry

The Grateful Dead are slammed by industry moguls for giving away CDs of their live concerts, whilst the Barenaked Ladies host a remix competition for their latest single.

June 12, 2006 | 12:17

NVIDIA announces PureVideo HD for HDCP

COMPUTEX 2006: The green team lays out its software and hardware compatibility for HD movies with HDCP content protection. It's got a new technology to cater for movies - PureVideo HD.

June 10, 2006 | 10:40

Conroe isn't late after all

And the PlayStation 3 might not be hobbled and useless, either. A quick update on two of our more controversial stories from this week.

June 10, 2006 | 10:16

Sapphire X1600 Ultimate vs MSI NX7600

Sapphire has a new Radeon X1600XT video card which has a passive cooler with a twist, while MSI has a new GeForce 7600 GS card with a passive cooler. Both support video acceleration and HD playback - which one should end up in your rig?

June 8, 2006 | 14:08

PS3 could ship with PS2 jammed inside

Problems making the super-complicated Cell architecture emulate the old PS2 hardware could lead Sony to jam a mini-PS2 into the PS3's casing for backwards compatibility.

June 7, 2006 | 10:36

Supertalent launches 'Fireball' USB drives

June 7, 2006 | 10:16

AllOfMP3 now a political negotiating tool

The website which has antagonised the music industry for so long appears at the brink of closure, as American negotiators get dirty.

June 6, 2006 | 10:42

Apple and Blackberry getting together?

AppleBerry - not a flavour of lemonade, but a rumoured device coming from the two computing firms. Could instant email be about to get more addictive?

June 6, 2006 | 10:20

Top 10 handheld console mods

Like a spot of retro gaming? How about on the go? Forget raking out the old Gameboy - console modding is where it's at.

June 6, 2006 | 10:10

NVIDIA launches 7950 GX2

In a bid to outperform the X1900 XTX, NVIDIA is launching a new board, the 7950 GX2, which it claims offers the fastest 'single-card' performance.

June 5, 2006 | 16:59

Computex is upon us again

The Week Ahead: we're in for another stonking week on bit-tech, as we report live from the show floor in Taipei. We've also got some the conclusion of a rather sweet mod...

June 5, 2006 | 15:27

Kingston launches 1066MHz 2GB kits

June 5, 2006 | 14:26

Ubuntu v6.06 hits the web

Version LTS replaces the awesomely-named Breezy Badger as the latest distribution of the easy-install Linux software.

June 5, 2006 | 10:38

ECS reveals Broadwater chipsets

June 5, 2006 | 10:20

GeCube Touts X1600 HDMI

June 5, 2006 | 10:15

PS3 hardware could be hobbled

Slides from a Sony presentation to developers lay open some apparently ugly facts about the internal architecture of Sony's latest.

June 5, 2006 | 10:02

AMD answers Conroe with 4x4

AMD's 4x4 platform puts two Athlon FX processors in a motherboard, rather than just one. Is this the pre-emptive reply to the imminent launch of Conroe?

June 5, 2006 | 09:12

BBC will stream World Cup online

Footie fans stuck in work all day rejoice - a quick hop over to the BBC website will bring you all the World Cup action you could dream of.

June 5, 2006 | 08:53

Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy

'Web 2.0' sites like Digg and Flickr provide some of the most awesome content on the web. Why on earth should we be worried about their popularity? Wil Harris explains the long-term consequences of all that information.

June 3, 2006 | 13:06

Microsoft leads Japan in iPod crusade

Fed up with Apple dominating the MP3 market, Microsoft is pooling resources with electronics manufacturers to take on Japan.

June 2, 2006 | 15:59

Zend gives away Zend Platform to Studio users

DevRel: A roundup of some interesting coding snippets this week, including a debate about everyone's favourite Microsoft languge, problems with Widgets and Web 2.0 for accessibility.

June 1, 2006 | 13:27