Richard Preston

Increased mobile driving penalties may not stop accidents

Gloves off as satellite giant accused of dirty tactics

European satellite operator Eutelsat yesterday announced it will be launching a satellite broadband service in June while Thales will launch a UK-specific system

iPlayer for everyone, social websites and all TV archived

Says Qualcomm's MediaFLO is better than DVB-H

Marantz hasgone all-out for its new DAB hi-fi. The ST-15S1 is a DAB, FM and MW receiver that comes brimming with the same tech Marantz uses in its high-end CD players. The ST-15S1 has 200 presets

The Canadian Private Copyright Collective (PCC) is calling for digital music players to be taxed to compensate artist for loss of earnings due to private copying.

SanDisk ihas announced more flash cards for portable music players and mobile phones. The micro multi SD kit contains a microSD card along with two adapters; one for MiniSD and one for normal SD

Still not enough HD content to watch on them

The BBC will debut a new type of digital radio to the UK with a trial in Devon. Digital radio mondiale (DRM) uses the medium wave band and could offer higher quality radio over greater distances.

Ofcom calls for change of regulation on digital roll out

Ofcom threatens HD TV; HDforAll plans to save it

Swedish manufacturer wants to resurrect retro format

Pricing unconfirmed but will be 'competitive'

Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer questioned the future of Apple's iPhone in an interview with US news service CNBC

Phishing software is also outlawed in changes

UK's Virgin Megastore group is keen to sell DRM-free digital music to give customers a better service, and believes it won't be long before record labels comply

Panasonic introduced its version of a 'hybrid' camcorder at the CES electronics show, earlier this month. The SDR-H20 and SDR-H250 both have a 30GB hard disc drive (HDD) and SD/SDHC card slots

Public-funded broadcaster tasked with improving digital TV

Toshiba plans to bring SED TVs to the Japanese market in 2007, and will buy the panels from SED Inc, a subsidiary of Canon

Samsung continues its updated line of MP3 players with the K3. The flash-based MP3 player comes in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB sizes, making it a direct competitor to Apple's Nano range

Conservative MP Boris Johnson has attacked video games claiming they stunt reading skills and do no good at all

With the internet fast becoming the new platform for distributing and watching TV, US-based MediaZone is taking advantage of this with Social TV

Lust for gadget lust is increasing environmental impact

Broadband users will need expensive uncapped connections