To charge or not to charge? That's something that Warner Music Group is pondering. The music group is lobbying ISPs to adopt a plan that strangely looks like the BBC's current TV license. Each household in the UK has to pay...

Virginmedia could be the first British company to target music sharers and implement the dreaded "three strikes" solution to piracy. In an article published by the Telegraph earlier today, a Virgin Media spokesman said...

Another month another mobile expo. CTIA this week may (I’ve used the world ‘should’ before and been disappointed) see new handsets from BlackBerry, Palm and, inevitably, Nokia. On previous performance though,...

It is one of the hidden gems on Microsoft's website - not anymore, at least not for ITProPortal.com readers; the software manufacturer is giving away free Official e-learning courses. The online courses are available 24 hours a...

Apple is apparently preparing a sports version of the iTouch/iPod which will bear the moniker of "Lifestyle companion"; it could be yet another decoy (like the Clamshell Motorola Razr iPhone) or it could be the...

Registering and re-registering your domain names will become more expensive as Verisign, which manages the generic top-level domains dot.com and dot.net, increases the price of base registration fees. Registrars such as Godaddy...

Figures compiled by researchers at Mintel show that online sales in Britain have reached a staggering £12.8 billion in 2007, ahead of Germany's £10.3 billion during the same period. France ranked a distant third with...

Rather than seeing the EEE as one line of product, it seems that Asus is considering pushing its EEE family (desktop + PC) as a standalone platform, with the recent release of a dedicated software development kit. Like Google...

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has released another VoIP aware mobile phone after its surprisingly good Skypephone (which is unfortunately only available on 3).Nokia did also release a number of VoIP enabled smartphones in the...

Together with a brand new redesign, the Openoffice.org website also featured a brand new version of  Openoffice.org. Version 2.4 of the open source productivity suite is only an incremental upgrade but paves the way for a...

Within a few years leading analysts believe that expenditure on power could leap from about 10 percent of the average IT budget to more like 50 percent. So the arguments for ‘greening’ the data centre and reducing its...

The high-definition format wars are over - and you won: Dell customers can now get a Blu-ray laptop for under a $1,000. Available today on dell.com, movie buffs can pick up the Inspiron 1525 with optional Blu-ray disc playback...

The Museum of Computing is the UK's first dedicated computer museum and it is now facing eviction after the University of Bath in Swindon withdraws from the Oakfield campus in July. With over 2,000 hardware exhibits (85% of...