Fancy some high-definition TV but don’t have satellite or cable? Got a PC and a digital TV card? Then you may care to know that BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five are running trial transmissions on the Freeview system, and that while the broadcasts are nominally restricted to a few hand-picked technotesters there’s nothing stopping you from eavesdropping. Except for …

Yesterday marked the official relaunch of Grundig. That’s right — the company best known for flogging cheap tellies through cheap retail outlets is back, and it’s better than ever. Apparently. It marked its re-entry to the UK market by hiring a room at the exclusive Groucho Club in London’s Soho, serving lots of alcohol and showing the football on a …

When it comes to music, mighty Microsoft is the underdog. For the company that dominates PC operating systems, desktop software suites and e-mail software and has a darn good business in everything from databases to video games, it’s an unaccustomed label. Can the latest version of Microsoft’s music software, Windows Media Player 11, be the first in many steps to …