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Pocket-lint.co.uk finishes the Global Challenge
You sea what we mean 17 July 2005 18:10 GMT
You've seen the reality TV documentary about Dame Ellen MacArthur's death-defying and record breaking sailing journeys. Over the past week our very own boss Stuart Miles did the same by joining the crew of a racing yacht, in the same time that there's a historical sailing...
Microsoft in Marvel Team-Up Featuring Xbox360
Ka-Pow! To City of Heroes and Freedom Force? 15 July 2005 23:26 GMT
The Makers of the Freedom Force games were zapped by legal action between the first and second games of the series, on account of too many people modding Marvel comic superheroes into the game to play.

Seeing the opportunity and a market, In stepped Microsoft,...
MP3 hits tenth Anniversary
Here's to another 10 years 15 July 2005 22:44 GMT
Even though it doesn't quite have the same ring as Sony's Walkman turning 25, or the same social cachet as shelves bursting with CDs, 10 years ago today The Fraunhoefer Institute invented the MPEG 1 Layer 3 file format and the file suffix, MP3, became a much more manageable...
Celebrations continue for Apple's 6.3million iPod sales
Is it unstoppable? 15 July 2005 22:09 GMT
The media thought they needed David Beckham sporting the famous white headphones to hype the story, but Apple doesn't care who you are - there are now 6.2million iPods in the world, enough to populate a small city in anyone's country, and with satisfied users coming back...
New Sharp Aquos P50 TV claims picture as good as CRT
Can the Aquos P50 really head off CRT for good? 14 July 2005 23:48 GMT
It's unusual for many TV set manufacturers to give a toss about the PAL standard when NTSC would result in much increased sales, but Sharp has decided to try and head off importers with a LCD screen which tackles the extra visual dimensions offered by the UK standard.
Orange lets users hear tunes on the bill with new handset
The future's bright for music fans without iPods 14 July 2005 23:20 GMT
"Orange SPV C550 Great for Music handset" is basically one of the longest and maybe silliest names we've heard for a mobile phone. It's good news then, that the SPV C550 is so music focussed at a time when Sony with its Ericsson partnership and the imminent Motorola and...
Mozilla v1.0.5 arrives with fixes
Back to full strength 14 July 2005 22:46 GMT
We reported on several high-profile bugs which affected all major browsers and not just Mozilla's last month, but the American English version of Firefox has been released in the last few days, fixing everything we reported on and more, and certainly sorting out some of...
Apple may go into mobile phones but extent stays unknown
iTunes- help you dance more easily 13 July 2005 23:58 GMT
They established the portable music player as a modern style icon…after the other one, the iMac and its one stab at PDAs, the Newton. Then the Apple Airport allowed users to beam that music around.

It's still a long stretch to imagine this would make the company...
HP launches new cartridge and paper packs for the summer
The home development march continues 12 July 2005 22:37 GMT
Bolstering its four recently released new Photosmarts, HP has brought back its paper packs of varying sizes. Whereas the older variety were aimed at A4 portrait printers, HP is squarely targeting amateur photographers who just want to print nothing but photos, so anyone...
Creative readies the Zen Vision
The would-be iPod of the video world? 12 July 2005 22:17 GMT
In the middle of last month, Creative gave the first glimpse of the Zen Vision, a video-orientated portable media player as the name suggests.

The early artists' impressions made the player look a little like a PSP without Sony's snazzy lines, but now by lining...
Rockstar denies deliberate sex in San Andreas, unlocked by mod
For once, they might not be baiting the moralists 12 July 2005 21:19 GMT
This time, Rockstar claims it isn't their fault that the controversy has rained down, as opposed to positively begging for it with Manhunt in summer 2004. A thirdparty mod(ification), known as Hot Coffee, will change some scenes in their latest million-selling opus Grand...
HP launches four Photosmarts for summer
Let the cartridge price debate begin again 1 July 2005 21:04 GMT
Returning to its most well known market, four new HP Photosmart printers were launched today, the 335 and 385 being the biggest of the quartet although all four place the accent firmly on portability as well as quality. The HP Photosmart 335 Compact Photo Printer. Weighing...
Creative Readies the Zen Sleek
But can it dislodge the iPod? 30 June 2005 21:51 GMT
200GBP will buy you Creative's latest and greatest Zen Sleek player, if you're not wedded to your iPod. The Zen Sleek sports a backlit Touch Pad control on a large blue backlit display (whatever the Sleek's bezel colour) which gives natural, one-handed fingertip management...
Telewest launches Teleport TV, BBC Deal among content
Free time not included 30 June 2005 16:10 GMT
Telewest today announced a 20millionGBP investment in Teleport, an intended rival to the Sky Plus service with almost all the same advantages of being able to pause record and rewind live TV while watching from any part of the programme, not just the start. The trial begins...
Phisherman jailed for 6 years for stealing 700,000GBP
Caught in the big net 29 June 2005 13:45 GMT
Douglas Havard, an American citizen based in Britain, was jailed for six years after raking in UK£700,000 through an internet phishing scam - though that's only the confirmed figure. His accomplice Lee Elwood received four years.

The National High Tech Crime unit...
BT and Microsoft strike broadband IPTV deal
Broadband television coming soon 29 June 2005 7:16 GMT
UK Monopoly telephone and ADSL internet provider, BT, faced with as many people switching phonelines away and staying away, as opposed to the magic million people who come back to them, struck a deal with the ever-busy Microsoft to create a new revenue stream - broadband...
Email Virus pretends to be Breaking News
Careful what you click on 29 June 2005 6:57 GMT
Kedebe-F is a name to get used to in future, and if you receive any emails detailing a plot to kill the Pope or Michael Jackson's death or any other types of news you never requested, then it's a worm.

As reported by antivirus company Sophos, one message reads...
AMD sues Intel over alleged monopoly abuses
AMD Instead? 28 June 2005 21:14 GMT
...Now here's a role reversal and a sign of AMD's continued success (ironically). Over at AMD's website the company has laid out its case for suing Intel in a suit files in Delaware but it boils down to Intel's general dominance of several markets across the world over nearly...
Music and Movie businesses win in US court battle vs ISPs
Bigger than a few teens 27 June 2005 22:16 GMT
If you don't want to read through 55 pages, the short version is that as far as the US Supreme Court is concerned, in the case of the MGM against Grokster (on its second hearing following the p2p company's victory), network providers, whether local or internet, which allow...
Toshiba and Microsoft strike pact amid HD DVD v Blu Ray tussle
The spectre of Betamax still looming 27 June 2005 20:04 GMT
UPDATED 29/6/05 - Microsoft hinted overnight that Xbox 360 may support the HD DVD format, or that in time a hybrid device in the style of Sony's limited edition hi-fi PS2, with Toshiba building the deck and the ability to play Xbox 360 games, was one possible scenario following...
AMD launches new Athlon 64 FX-57 Single Core chip
Chips for everyone 27 June 2005 13:50 GMT
Building on its ever-burgeoning sales and market profile and following the release of Turion for notebooks last week, AMD launched the FX 57 processor, aimed squarely at the hardcore overclocking and gaming market.

Despite taking the name from an old line of...
Microsoft to integrate RSS into Longhorn
So enjoy it while it lasts 24 June 2005 23:45 GMT
Just when we thought Microsoft had finished making announcements in an already very busy week, the company then announced that Really Simple Syndication technology or RSS as we all know and love it, was going to be incorporated into next year's Longhorn operating system...
Apple iTunes Europe reaches 50 million downloads
So sue them already 24 June 2005 22:30 GMT
For a website set up only a year ago, it was only a matter of time before iTunes outside of America would reach a significant milestone, but 50million legally downloaded bought and paid for tunes is definitely worth shouting about for Apple, which has spread its online stores...
Microsoft creates Fortress Hotmail with Sender ID Anti Spam
Standards? What standards? 24 June 2005 21:47 GMT
Nobody's going to complain about their mailboxes being made 200 times larger, as Microsoft did at the end of last year, and Hotmail is known for its ruthlessness about spam, keeping its 24-hour deletion of junk and image blocks in place from when everyone's mailboxes were...
Microsoft's torrent of bits in a week of announcements
and its Hotmail just got hotter 24 June 2005 20:44 GMT
It's been another big week for Microsoft, although now we're at the end of it, you'd have been forgiven for thinking the Redmond giant had plans to annoy as many users as possible.

Firstly there was the reaction to the Javascript spoofing flaw - and Microsoft...