Michael Robertson, one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific company creators, continues to plug along with so-called music lockers. His most recent music company, MP3tunes, began offering the lockers for free last week in an apparent attempt to draw interest from consumers. Music lockers enable a customer to store music on a company’s servers and later retrieve songs by having them …

Philips is pleased with itself. It’s been ten years since it displayed the first prototype 42-inch gas plasma TV, which was just 100mm thick so could be “hung on the wall like a painting”. At last, say our Dutch friends, the TV has been liberated from the corner of the room. Reality was never Philips’ strong point. It seems to …

Music on the Internet has often been free or legal, but start-up SpiralFrog is looking to offer songs that are both. The 20-person New York-based company has signed a deal with record label Universal Music Group to offer songs for free, hoping to make money by showing ads to users as they download the music. “Essentially they are paying with …