Into Tech

A Bollywood movie, complete with singing and dancing, could be made about late cricketer Bob Woolmer.

Online retailer CD-Wow is ordered to pay £41m to British record companies over selling cut-price CDs.

A review is ordered into premium rate phone lines used by the BBC after errors are revealed.

A piano used by John Lennon on the night he died is put up for sale for $375,000.

A Dutch television show is criticised for offering a terminally ill woman’s kidneys as a prize.

Magic FM withdraws a £168,600 prize after doubts emerge over the winner.

Gordon Brown says he will read the final Harry Potter book soon after he takes office as prime minister.

Of all the things that we’ve seen an iPod dock stuck onto, this washing machine is probably the worst. LG’s patent for a “Home appliance with MP3 player” loads a dock for the iPod/Zune on the top along with speakers and what looks …

Channel 4 promises it will not profit from voting on Big Brother 8 after controversy about a previous phone poll.

LONDON (Reuters) - Telecoms and media watchdog, Ofcom, has
delayed a decision on whether to auction off a prime range of
radio wave spectrum which could by used by mobile phone firms
for mobile Internet services, media reports said on Monday.

A top Polish official tells psychologists to investigate whether the Teletubbies TV show promotes a gay lifestyle.

Now you probably didn’t know this—because you’re a normal human being—but kids apparently like to huff cans of compressed air. Boy, children are really high tech these days. Back when we were small we stuck with markers, glue, and chalk, but now they’re getting …

I realize I could go to hell for making a Virtual Boy reference, but the idea of strapping some flashing red LEDs to your eyes while sound pulses through your headphones calls up …

Charles Nelson Reilly, a frequent guest and panellist on American TV shows in the 1970s and ’80s, dies aged 76.

BBC News speaks to Jan Chipchase, principal human behavioural researcher at Nokia Design.

With all that spare capacity, PS3 game makers are looking to boost sales by adding high-def movies to their Blu-ray games discs. Midway has announced plans to release a special edition of Stranglehold, complete with a HD …

Lloyd Jones’s novel Mister Pips wins the Commonwealth Writers Prize, which recognises authors from ex-British colonies.

Panasonic has launched a new, compact digital snapper with a whopping 12.2 megapixels and the unusual ability to record high-definition video.

The new Lumix DMC- FX100 arrives in July and significantly boosts the company’s current high-end offering, …

Fans in Vancouver await the first concert on a five-month world tour by reunited rock group The Police.

Thousands march to mark the demise of an opposition TV station in Venezuela, as the channel ends broadcasts.