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EMI takes locks off music tracks

Music giant EMI is taking software locks off its digital music sold via download sites such as iTunes.

The "premium" versions of EMI tracks will lack the digital locks common to songs available via many online sites.

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What is Digital Rights Management?

EMI has announced that it will be offering its back catalogue online without software locks, called digital rights management. The songs will be sold at a higher price to those currently with the digital locks but will also be at double the audio quality.

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Do small firms need big software?

Most small firms and start-ups run their business on what is, in effect, consumer software, using a spreadsheet and maybe Microsoft Outlook to manage their contacts.

But to grow, small companies have to use more powerful software.

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Everest mobile call effort begins

A British climber has embarked on an attempt to make the world's highest phone call.

Rod Baber plans to climb Everest and then establish a world record by making a mobile call from the summit.

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Takling CCTV scheme expanding

"Talking" CCTV cameras that tell off people dropping litter or committing anti-social behaviour are to be installed in 20 areas across England.

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Cyber bullying threat to teachers

Teachers are calling for much tougher restrictions to protect staff from "cyber bullying" by pupils.

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Broadband kills off consumer ISDN

BT is to withdraw Integrated Digital Services Network (ISDN) services from consumer use later this year

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GPS to reveal walrus whereabouts

Danish scientists are to put satellite tags on walruses to try to understand where the great beasts migrate.

They will track animals for two months off west Greenland - and gauge how hunting, oil exploration and climate change may be affecting the animals.

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Money transfer service wows Kenya

The lives of many Kenyans are being transformed by an innovative mobile phone money transfer service.

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Can online therapy ease depression?

The UK has a drastic shortage of therapists to treat people with depression, but what if patients could log on to a chat room to get the help they need?

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High speed web boost for Africa

Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar have secured $164.5m (£83.3m) from the World Bank to help roll-out high-speed internet networks.

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Home emptied after hoax online ad

A house near Seattle in the US was emptied of its contents after a hoax advertisement invited people to take whatever they wanted for free.

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Thailand blocks access to YouTube

The Thai government has banned access to the YouTube video-uploading website after it broadcast material critical of the country's king.

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Mobile staff 'lacking knowledge'

UK mobile phone users are often paying too much because staff at some main operators are unable to answer tariff questions, a consumer report says.

Staff at O2 were the most likely not to be able to answer a tariff question, according to a survey of the UK's six biggest mobile firms by Onecompare.com.

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Biometric cash machines for illiterate

These days Mahendra Sahni, a daily wage worker in India's most backward state of Bihar, struts up to a gleaming new cash machine in his village to withdraw his hard earned money.

The biometric cash machines are custom-made for people who cannot read or write and use features like fingerprint verification and voice guided animated screens and easy navigation.

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