South Korea plans for Gigabit link broadband

South Korea looks certain to maintain its reputation as the world's most dynamic broadband country with the announcement of plans to install Gigabit links to attract businesses into certain areas. The super fast lines will be part of a converged network planned for 2010, which will also provide widespread access to speeds between 50Mbps and 100Mbps. The country is hoping to attract $7. ...more

Boot Camp update puts Vista on the Mac

Apple has updated Boot Camp to support Windows Vista, quashing once and for all rumours that incompatibility with Microsoft's latest operating system would delay the shipping of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The new release - version 1. ...more

Mixed results for Blackberry court battle

Research In Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of the popular Blackberry mobile, has been left with a curate's egg to mull over for Christmas. A US appeal court has found that the company has infringed the patent of NTP but has lifted the injunction which would have prevented RIM from selling Blackberrys in the US. NTP Inc had claimed that it holds a patent for wireless email going back to 1993 - a claim disputed by RIM. ...more

Mind the gaps

A Friday afternoon story: Reuters reports that a British "media artist" is using custom-designed software to collect the silent gaps between words during 24 hours of BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Matt Rogalsky will monitor the station on 12 December, compiling a 24 CD set with an hour's worth of nothing on each, and hopes to sell them as a collector's item for $426 a set. Included with the CDs is documentation on signal strength and silence thresholds, although unfortunately no lyrics sheets. ...more

Toshiba notebooks with HD-DVD blue-laser drives on the horizon

Toshiba is to launch notebooks featuring next-gen HD-DVD blue-laser drives before the end of next year, according to Japanese news service Nihon Keizai. The range would fall under its Qosmio brand of high-end entertainment focused laptops launched earlier this year - which currently allow users to watch TV without having to boot into Windows. HD-DVD uses blue-laser technology to write up to 15GB on an optical disc and is supported by the likes of Toshiba and NEC. ...more