October news

I'm beginning the blog with material collected since October 2006. Later posts will have dates on.

Mobile phones:
mobile phone sales face slower growth - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5403588.stm

Music:
Napster launches in Japan, the world's second largest music market - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5401848.stm (after itunes launched there in August 2005 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4745057.stm )

Cinema:
A new double disc to end the coming rivalry between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5364238.stm

Security:
Movement on the US's control of the internet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5388648.stm?ls

Music:
Pricing information released about Microsoft's 'Zune' rival to ipod - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5391226.stm?ls although leander Kahney is already sure it can't beat Apple's hit player - http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71896-0.html?tw=wn_index_12

Music:
'Online music comes of age - and now fans are getting in on the act' (on the digital awards ceremony and digital music) http://arts.guardian.co.uk/netmusic/story/0,,1887085,00.html

Internet:
'Online bookies ask WTO for rescue from armageddon' (on the possible collapse of online gaming after a new US law is signed in the next two weeks') http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886883,00.html

Mobile phones:
'HSBC rings in mobile banking' (on how UK banks are allowing customers access to accounts via their mobile) http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886903,00.html

Internet:
Google buys Youtube - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm and

Internet:
The Carphone warehouse buys AOL UK - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039740.stm (which makes the carphone warehouse the 3rd biggest UK broadband provider!)

Video Games:
a story about the network ready Playstation 3, challenging the XBox on its home gound - online gaming - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5402966.stm

Music:
Limewire fights back against the RIAA - http://www.drmwatch.com/legal/article.php/3635931