Pop star Beyonce is to play blues vocalist Etta James in a new film, according to a report.

Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq

More crimes committed before disc found The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the latest government institution facing humiliation over its inability to properly deal with sensitive data.?

Disc takes a slug for South Carolina fire chief A South Carolina fire chief caught up in a scuffle for a gun had a close shave when a ricocheted bullet hit a DVD in his jacket pocket, saving him from a slug in the guts.?

IBM and Microsoft in the driving seat Myths and legends It seems there is a disquieting trend in IT: concepts are getting steadily vaguer, and claims harder to verify.?

Has to do with servers and services Unisys. Unisys. Unisys. No, we can't quite rememb . . . Oh, that's right - the company that sells hardware and services.?

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A day after Apple cut the price of its shuffle, Sony has unveiled its latest no-nonsense media players in Japan - the NW range.

Polaroid may've committed suicide just last week, but designer David Friedman over at Ironic Sans has drawn (ok, Adobe Illustrated) up a conceptual digital Polaroid idea, similar to a poxy digital photo frame but obviously with that now-retro appeal. Photos can be loaded onto the Polaroid by the memory card slot at the bottom of the frame, and with the touch-screen, you can choose...

More portable music from Sony, this time the more impressive NW-A820.

According to the BBC, over 17 million programmes were watched or downloaded on demand via the BBC's iPlayer catch-up service in the first seven weeks of its full launch, with the BBC's Director General Mark Thompson comparing its the arrival to that of colour TV in the 1960s.

Just popping up a message to remind you all about our competition to win a pair of VX-3000 LifeCam webcams from Microsoft. The competition is running until this Friday, 6PM GTM, so get your entries in, fast! See under the jump for more details...

Thousands of supporters of Armenia's leading opposition candidate were rioting today after it was announced that the prime minister, Serge Sarkisian, had won the country's presidential election

The radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today threatened to end a crucial six-month ceasefire that has been credited with halving the level of violence in Iraq

Beijing authorities extend broadcast restrictions on foreign-made cartoons

Political correspondent Nick Watt on EU opposition to Tony Blair becoming the first president of the European council

Filed under: LaptopsAccording to DigiTimes, the reason we haven't seen any CloudBooks on sale is due to the weather. Recent heavy snowfalls in China wreaked havoc on the local rail systems and power supplies leaving FIC unable to meet their targets. According to "sources," retail shipments will now be pushed back to mid-March. Now our quandary. What's more dubious? Everex's newly posted 2/21/2008 availability date or China's claimed ability to co
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