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Rampant piracy threatens PC games

European citizens are getting the chance to shape policy on smart tags.

The European Commission is setting up a group made up of citizens, scientists, data protection experts and businesses to discuss how the tags should be used

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Rampant piracy threatens PC games

Global piracy cost the US games industry more than $4bn in 2004, not including losses from net piracy.

Some estimates show that as much as 50% of game sales are lost to piracy in the US.

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No need for hospital mobile ban

Hospitals in England which currently ban doctors and patients from using mobile phones have no reason to do so, the government has said.

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Home access to NHS records plan

Patients are set to be able to look at their medical records on their home computer, it has been announced.

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Smart fabrics to take the pulse

US special forces could soon be wearing smart fabrics that monitor how they cope during combat situations.

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TV to come through mains supply

Soon you could be piping digital TV around your home via power sockets.

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Mobile targets the 50+ generation

A mobile phone with a built-in emergency button has been produced for elderly and older people.

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Office workers 'risk blood clots'

Researchers found a third of patients admitted to hospital with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were office workers who spent hours at a computer.

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Vehicle warning system trialled

Vehicles may soon be swapping information about road conditions to warn drivers about dangers.

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First digital TV switch date set

About 25,000 households in the Whitehaven area of western Cumbria will be the first to have the old analogue signal switched off, from 17 October.

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Viacom will sue YouTube for $1bn

Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube's site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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Internet curbs for India's top students

The authorities in India's premier engineering institute, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay (Mumbai), have cut off internet access to students in hostels at night.

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Robotic baby helps trainee nurses

A robotic baby that breathes, burps and can be X-rayed is being used for the first time by student nurses in Kent.

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Reduction in card fraud in 2006

The widespread adoption of chip-and-pin technology since 2004 has changed the nature of card fraud, as well as reducing it overall.

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Privacy bodies back Google step

Privacy bodies have welcomed Google's decision to anonymise personal data it receives from users' web searches.

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Net copes with key character test

Tests are being carried out to see how the net's addressing system copes with international character sets such as Chinese and Arabic.

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Microsfot hits 'cybersquatters'

Microsoft is pursuing five alleged UK-based cybersquatters in its battle against firms and individuals who have registered variations or misspellings of its key brands, such as Xbox.

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Nowhere to hide in digital Africa

Mumbi's Dial-a-Cab company is one of 20 fleet firms in Kenya which have adopted a new vehicle-tracking technology that has been made possible by the growth of mobile phones.

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Mourners bid farewell on internet

A Northern Ireland undertaker has begun broadcasting funerals live on the internet.

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Web woes for First Direct users

First Direct customers have faced days of struggling to access their online banking, after the firm overhauled its log-in procedures.

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