High street charity shops enjoying CD donation boom

High street charity shops are enjoying a boom in CD donations, as people increasingly store all their music on their computers. Cerebral palsy charity Scope said that its stores are receiving 'sack loads' of unwanted discs - both old and new material - as people clear out CD collections that cover an estimated 23,000 miles of shelf space across the UK. However the charity-minded are far outnumbered by those who offload their CDs on eBay. ...more

UPDATED: Original iMac disappears from Apple store

The original iMac has disappeared from the Apple Store. The iMac revolutionised the idea of what a computer could be when it was introduced in 1998 and is credited with rescuing the fortunes of Apple. It survived the advent of the new LCD iMac and the eMac, until now. ...more

Samsung puts the widescreen into portable devices

Samsung has created a 4in LCD panel with a 16:9 screen ratio, designed for portable media players (PMPs). Think 'widescreen' and you think of cinemas or large plasma displays, but the South Korean electronics giant is anticipating a market for full-scale portable video players. Current PMPs generally use 3. ...more

Music industry targets nearly 1,000 with file-sharing suits

The music industry has launched its biggest ever number of legal actions against alleged file sharers, targeting 963 people in 11 countries. They include action by the BPI against 33 UK users of KaZaA, DirectConnect, BearShare, SoulSeek, Grokster and Imesh, bringing the total in this country to 90, the first 26 of which have been settled out of court to a total of ?50,000. 'We have warned people time and again that unauthorised filesharing is against the law,' BPI general counsel Geoff Taylor said. ...more

Intel unwraps Core 2 Duo

Intel has officially taken the wraps off its Core 2 Duo processor, the dual-core version of its Core microarchitecture-based chip. Pricing ranges from $183 for the Core 2 Duo E6300 (a bottom-end part with only 2MB Level 2 cache, 1066MHz FSB and a 1.86GHz clock speed) and rises up to $999 for the Extreme Edition X6800 (which boasts a 2. ...more