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There’s been a massive drop in the shipments of personal computers (PC) by 5% between April and June as record revealed yesterday. Global shipments in the second quarter stood at 68.1 million units as per a report by Gartner a computer research group. This is down from a figure of 71.7 million earlier. Although the decline was expected due to the recession and the downturn in the global credit crunch a major factor the dip in the figures was still less than the originally predicted 9.8%. as a result there is revived hope based on these small signs that the market is recovering slowly but surely.

You Tube has lifted a block on users viewing official music videos after the website reached a agreement with songwriters group PRS for Music. Back in march You Tube blocked thousands of music videos to the UK after failing to reach agreement Over fees. The site which is owned by Google is now paying a undisclosed sum
To PRS backdating to January and until 2012. The music group says that the deal will enable and help songwriters who don’t get paid much – in some cases 90% of them earn less then £5000 per year. You tubes decision had theoretically blocked all content owned by record labels in march.

The battle over Google’s effort to digitise the worlds books and create a vast online library has intensified. A settlement of $125m was made with authors and publishers. The settlement was reached last October stemmed from a 2006 legal suit that Google faced for scanning out of print works without explicit permission from rights holders. If the ruling is in favour of Google then the Web Giant will create a Books Rights Registry where authors and publishers could register works and be compensated. An advantage this brings to individuals is access to any book no matter where it is in the world.

Figures on super fast broadband delivered by fibre to the home shows a 18% growth since the last survey compile in 2008.    This equates to more than two million people in Europe and suggests that the global economic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibre infrastructure.

Sweden is at the top of the list I rolling out the technology with 10.9% of its broadband customers using fibre.   By 2012 the Europe’s Fibre-To-The-Home Council (FTTH) expect the figure to rise to 13million people across 35 European nations.  More that 223 projects are underway to lay the fibres that would connect homes or buildings to the net.  Many of these projects are being operated by local governments or smaller net firms.

A flight simulator site which was targeted by a hacker back in May has had a file presented to the UK police identifying the perpetrator. Avism said it had ‘incontrovertible evidence’ about the hackers identity. The attack itself wiped out data held on two servers and ‘effectively destroyed’ the site which is still undergoing a rebuild. The US firm said that it expected the criminal complaint which has been filed to the London Police to lead to the hacker being jailed. The site itself was launched in 1996 and covers all aspects of flight simulation. It also hosts a forum and allows users to download extra content for flight simulations.

The government has made a appeal to inventors to develop anti-terrorist gadgets.  Real life versions of Q in the 007 James Bond films are being offered funding to develop technology to help fight terrorists groups like al-Qaeda.  Ideas have already come to light including rocket propelled net to stop speedboats and a barrier to block suicide trucks.  The Home office have predicted that terrorists will use modern technology not just to plan and carry out attacks but also to spread propaganda and hire new recruits.  As such it’s key for the government to keep up with new technology and use it at a faster pace then the terrorists to fight attacks.

Orange and LG have designed an exclusive watch phone with a deal to sell it in the UK on a pay-as-you go deal for £500.  Orange have described it as the world’s first touch screen watchphone.  Calls are made by tapping on the watch face which due to the size can be awkward – however it is slightly easier to receive calls as the gadget comes with Bluetooth.  It’s still far from a Smartphone as it doesn’t hold the functionality to surf the web or navigate your way around town but does have video calling.  Alone video calling isn’t a great selling point – do you really want to be staring at the person you’re calling on a watch interface