Digital technologies create a conflict between protecting copyrights and ensuring the broadest possible distribution. Digital Rights Management has been the answer - but this solution, which seems to benefit the rights holder, may be highly detrimental to the consumer in the long run.

While the history of PCs is interesting, the history of Apple computers is more so. Although Apple only hold about 2% of the computer market, that's still a lot when you consider how many millions of computers there are in the world. Apple is, arguably, the inventor of the modern computer graphical

Computers have a jargon all their own - it's a truly huge specialist vocabulary, and it can feel like an alien language if you're not used to it. If you're buying a computer, though, it helps to have a handle on at least the basics, so let's see if we can breeze through them for you quickly. OK, let's

The growth of the Internet and budget airlines has turned last-minute flights into a huge industry - you can just be surfing around, and then, right there, there's a flight cheap enough for you to buy on impulse and go away this weekend. If you're thinking about booking last minute flights, however, there

Together with last minute flights, last minute hotels are big business nowadays. The idea is that you take a room that would otherwise be empty (often because of cancellations), and in return you get a steep discount. However, as ever, it's a case of buyer beware. It can be a very common experience