Apple’s iPhone and its iTunes movie service are heading to Europe, but probably not for another six months. Apple’s Europe VP, Pacal Cagri, told France’s Les Echos (subscription required) that iTunes’ movie and video-download service will arrive in Europe sometime before the end of the year and that, more importantly, iPhone will launch here in [...]
Macbook users have been issued with a software update to fix ‘visibly deformed’ battery packs, among other problems
Apple has admitted that some batteries in its Macbook and Macbook Pro line of laptops have ‘performance issues’ and has issued a software update to fix the problem.
Among the symptoms of batteries that are affected are swelling, the [...]
The ‘One Laptop Per Child’ project, which aims to bring $100 PCs to the developing world, says its machines will now cost $175
The founder of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which aims to deliver $100 laptops to schoolchildren in the developing world, has said that the machine will now cost $175 and may [...]
Criminals have been hijacking sponsored links to attempt to spread malicious code, search company says
Computer users were warned of the potential hazards of Google today after the company admitted that criminals had hijacked links displayed in some lists of search results and attempted to install viruses on users’ machines.
It was unclear how many people were [...]
Children should not put laptop computers with wi-fi connections on their lap because of the potential health risks, the Government’s leading adviser on mobile phone safety says.
Lawrie Challis gave warning that the effects of wi-fi on children should be monitored, amid growing concern about emissions from such networks.
Professor Challis, chairman of the Mobile Telecommunications Health [...]
The shift towards delivering TV over the internet took a dramatic step forward today after ITV announced plans for its first on-demand service and the BBC received approval for its long-awaited iPlayer.
ITV laid down the gauntlet to its competitor commercial channels, saying that a free 30 day ‘catch-up’ service which would enable viewers to watch [...]
The comment by Turkey’s Opposition leader, Deniz Baykal, says it all: “The Republic is going back into the hands of its true owner.â€
While the crisis in Turkey over the possible election of its first president with an Islamist past looks like a battle between secularists and Islamic traditionalists – with the very fabric of secular [...]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, has appealed for national unity in a television address tonight. The speech was recorded on Saturday, a day after the army threatened to intervene in the presidential poll process.
The Turkish stock market plunged 8 per cent this morning and the Turkish lira lost 4 per cent of its [...]
Turkish financial markets were in turmoil today as the Turkish lira fell sharply and the stock market plunged following a weekend of political uncertainty that unsettled investors.
A tense stand-off between the Islamist-rooted government and the secularist Turkish army over presidential elections risks unnerving foreign investors who have returned to the high-growth country since a financial [...]
Five members of a British al-Qaeda cell were jailed for life today for plotting to use fertiliser bombs to blow up the Bluewater shopping centre, the Ministry of Sound nightclub and other targets across the UK including gas and electricity supplies.
The ringleader of a plot that would have claimed hundreds of lives, Omar Khyam, was [...]
