- Us Brits are a wasteful bunch, with 855,000 mobile phones being dropped into the toilet each year. Yes, our tariff plans really are shit.
- Today in NYC at the Pac-Man World Championships, Microsoft are due to announce something 'big' and 'Pac-Man-related'. Probably a 360 Live Pac-Man rehash or something, sigh.
- The average Brit spends 34.4 hours on the internet each month, followed by the Swedes and Spanish. Believe it or not, the world's most obese country, the US, was next.
- Proving you can never mess with Jack Bauer, a 24-year-old Chicago man has been sentenced with three years in jail for uploading episodes of 24 illegally.
- In further 'shocking' news, the Nintendo DS sold the most units last month in Japan, followed by the Wii, then the PSP, PS3 and Xbox 360 sliding in last.

- Millions of cheap gamers throughout Britain are crying today, as Game have bought out high-street competitor Gamestation for £74 million. No cheap trade-ins, then, *sobs*.
- Apple are keeping schtum on hidden email addresses and passwords enclosed in DRM-free music files, refusing to answer any questions from angry iTunes-users.
- A new memory card standard has been approved, the Multiple Interface Card (miCard) will hold eight GB of memory, with the maximum standard being 2,048 whopping GB, which is a lot of badly-composed home photos.
- Ensuring a heck of a lot of hate-(e)mail, Dell employers reported massive first-quarter profits, then announced an international lay-off for 10% of their staff, within several hours. Ouch.
- US presidential campaigner John McCain has claimed when he's in the White House, he'll take Microsoft's hot-headed Steve Ballmer with him - possibly to be the ambassador to China.

- Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers' email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we've got Big Brother now to distract us...
- Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren't included.
- Apparently Londoners aren't interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London Wi-Fi network.
- There must be a lot of kids without friends IRL, as apparently one in five kiddywinks meet people off the internet in person.
- Not only are Apple hiding your email address and password in the DRM-free tracks, but also 360k worth of hidden data - possibly iTunes library data, a watermark of the AAC encoding, or a bunch of ET Atari cartridges. Probably.

- A loose-lipped exec has blabbed that there will indeed be Google apps available on the Apple iPhone, ending millennia of mass hype and hysteria.
- Broadband is more popular in Scotland than anywhere else in Britain, with more than 50% of residents using high-speed connections to access .jpegs of sheep and perfectly formed black pudding.
- Ending a five-year legal battle, CD-Wow have been ordered to pay the UK record industry £41 million for importing cheap CDs and DVDs from Asia. No more cheap Bangles CDs :(
- Proof that hours spent alone with your PC and a copy of CounterStrike pays off, as a young gamer is lauded a hero after attempting to stop an armed robbery from taking place. Good thing he's not a WoW player with a battle-axe...
- Yesterday at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Google whipped out two new features for Google Maps, including Mapplets, allowing users to embed Maps mashups in any website.

- Microsoft's Zune MP3-player has already met sales targets ahead of its late-June hopes of one million units sold. C'mon, soldiers, rally up and take one for the team! Get yer credit card ready for a bashing!
- A British science teacher has reported they kicked-out BBC's Panorama team from the school for practising 'bad science'. So, a bunch of kids can detect nonsense scaremongering, but the general public can't?
- Proving the Kiwi dollar isn't strong enough to afford even Bill Gates's products, The New Zealand Ministry of Education doesn't approve of Microsoft software being used on Macs, recently declining to renew the licensing deal for MS Office, instead offering free alternative NeoOffice.
- A 63-year old man has discovered how to turn water into fire. Now, if he could just tell me how to turn fire into money, I'm set...
- In what has probably added up to a heck of a lot of stolen VCRs, NEC employees have been discovered placing fake orders and taking kickbacks from the electronics company, amounting to $22 billion in lost profits.