Music site Boxman collapses

Online CD retailer Boxman may be going into voluntary liquidation after failing to secure funding to the tune of ?20m. The pan-European music site was one of the first and has been around for a momentous three years - a lifetime in Net terms. But it seems Boxman has been a victim of the tech stock depression. ...more

Office workers sick of decrepit computers

Old and unreliable computers make office workers unhappy and more likely to take sick time, according to a new survey. The poll of 2,700 office workers in the UK, France and Germany found that as computers age workers become significantly less happy. British workers said old computers were the single most irritating thing about office life. ...more

Spring IDF 2006: Your DVD player is as hot as a cup of Starbucks coffee

Intel's Home Entertainment keynote brought up one astounding fact: your DVD player, when idle, is almost as hot as a cup of Starbucks coffee. That's 74.3C for your DVD player and 77C for the coffee. ...more

Tiscali giant consumes Tiny Online morsel

Tiscali, the Italian ISP that can't stop acquiring other companies, has struck again, agreeing to buy Tiny Online. Tiny Online, which has over 650,000 subscribers, is being offloaded by Tiny Computers so that it can concentrate on the PC sales business. The service was launched back in 1999, since when the ISP market has consolidated somewhat. ...more

Publishers identify Amazon as a greater threat than Google

Publishing executives have begun questioning the role that Amazon is playing in the bookselling market, suggesting that it presents more of a threat than Google's plans to make the full text books online. The chief executive of Harper Collins told the London Book Fair that while they were all talking about Google, publishers should be more concerned by Amazons plans. 'They are moving into the publishing space and we ought to be very mindful of that,' Victoria Barnsley said during a panel discussion. ...more