NBC is hyping up how it’s really embracing the web this year in its Olympic coverage. However, the details suggest that (as per usual with NBC Universal) it’s taking a very old school approach — meaning the web is treated as a second class …
France Télécom yesterday abandoned its €27bn (£21bn) bid for Nordic rival TeliaSonera and, with it, the prospect of leading Europe’s biggest telecoms group. The French operator walked away after the TeliaSonera board and its biggest shareholder, the Swedish government, demanded a higher price. The decision …
Cable & Wireless sweetened its offer for Thus yesterday and snapped up a 29.9% stake in the smaller telecoms firm to strengthen its hand. C&W failed to secure a full recommendation from the Thus board for its £329m offer but was granted access to conduct …
The world’s biggest online auctioneer, eBay, was ordered by a French court yesterday to pay €38.6m euros in damages to the luxury goods group LVMH for negligence in allowing the sale of fake bags, lipsticks and designer clothes. The fine of more than £30m is …
Ambitious plans for an online video on demand service offering more than 10,000 hours of classic TV shows from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 were hit yesterday by a decision to refer them to the Competition Commission. ITV’s chairman, Michael Grade, criticised the decision …
While women should have access to a full choice of contraceptive methods, buying the pill on the internet presents huge risks to the many disadvantaged young women who lack sexual health education (Contraceptive pill goes on sale online, June 23). With only 49% of young …
A few weeks ago, we pointed out that a French court had made a very bad ruling, blaming eBay for actions of its users. The case involved the sale of counterfeit goods from LVMH. Rather than recognizing that eBay is just a …
Slashdot is running an interesting post, suggesting that GoDaddy’s VP in charge of managing the domain auctions it runs on expired domains, has been caught participating in the auctions himself, often driving up the prices of those auctions for customers. That’s one …
There’s been a fair amount of complaining about the pricing of the new iPhone 3G over the last few weeks. While plenty of people were initially enamored by the cheaper price for the actual phone in the US (and in some other countries), this …
A few weeks back when we mentioned that the musical act Girl Talk was releasing a new album using the pay what you want model, one element we didn’t dwell on was the fact that Girl Talk’s genre might be best described as “mash …
The patent office needs to start clearing out its staff because information has leaked through once more, this time suggesting that Sony has filed for a touchscreen PSP…. …
Most of you will have no direct need for a match box-sized digital TV unit that’ll plug into any television set, no matter how ancient, but how many of you have a gran …
What would the day be without details of a leak from one company or another, and today it’s the turn of Asus to get our hearts racing and our eyebrows twitching with news …
I’m not a huge fan of the term “patent troll” which I agree can be unfairly negative, and without a clear definition often leads to problems. Recently, it seems that the term is most often applied to “non-practicing entities” making some people think …
If you’re finding the pressure of fame is getting to you, and you’re constantly being pestered by men with long lenses, these infrared sunglasses could be the thing for you. A bit of …
Following a US and Japan release, the UK has finally received confirmation of the arrival of the PS3 Dualshock 3 controller, which as we noted in April seems like the sort of thing …
Rhapsody is the latest online music service to try to take a piece of the action from iTunes, as it announces its new MP3 store featuring DRM-free tracks which can be played on iPod, …
The Sound Chaser lies somewhere between the bizarre, the genius and the utterly useless yet still manages to make you want it. What you’re looking at is basically a train set with audio functions, …
Following recent news from Amazon and Napster, music service Rhapsody will be the latest to start offering DRM-free downloads. These moves are undoubtedly an attempt to try and ruffle …
Back in May we wrote about how shoe store DSW was suing Zappos over potential trademark infringement done by an affiliate — and now we’ve got another similar story. The company NameSafe is suing competitor LifeLock over Google ads that make …