Creative rapped over 'better than CD quality' claim

Creative cannot claim that its Xmod audio processor can enhance MP3s so that they sound better than CDs, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled following a complaint by an audio engineer. The portable media player and speakers manufacturer released Xmod late last year, claiming that it cold 'upconvert' compressed music in formats such as MP3, AAC and WMA by enhancing the low and high frequencies while improving audio dynamics to create a cleaner, richer sound. In a subsequent marketing email it claimed 'An Experience Beyond Studio Quality' and 'audio that sounds ever better than CD quality in seconds'. ...more

Apple re-releases the recent security update for Mac OS X Server

Apple has re-released the recent security update for Mac OS X Server, having withdrawn it last week. The update includes the following components: AFP Server, Bluetooth Setup Assistant, CoreFoundation, Cyrus IMAP, Cyrus SASL, Folder permissions, Mailman, Safari, Samba, SquirrelMail. For details of the vulnerabilities addressed go to www. ...more

Big Brother Brings Out The Best In Ecommerce

Big Brother winner, Craig Phillips, has pledged his ?70,000 winnings to Joanne Harris a Downs Syndrome sufferer in need of a life saving operation. On hearing Craig's generosity ebookers.com, an Internet holiday company, has promised to fly both Craig and Joanne to the US where her heart and lung transplant be performed. ...more

Digital music download sales stall

Apple may be in the process of selling over 10 million iPods each month but a development that is bound to be worrying record company executives is that sales of digital music downloads have stalled. Since May the number of tracks sold, most of which are downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store, has remained almost static at around 6.5 million per week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. ...more

Asus joins the Athlon 64 mobo pack

ASUSTeK is the latest manufacturer to announce a motherboard for the Athlon 64. The K8V Deluxe motherboard is fitted with VIA's latest K8T800 chipset, serial ATA and RAID functions, an 802.11b Wi-Fi slot, AGP 8x graphics technology, IEEE 1394 high-speed interface, S/PDIF digital audio and integrated Gigabit LAN support. ...more