It's been quite a year for the design industry, according to the judges of this year's D&AD Awards -- which last night presented six of the top Black Pencil awards and 64 'second-prize' Yellow Pencils to the best work from the nominees.

Beginning in May , Apple will take Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Server on tour around the world from Los Angeles to Sydney. On May 29 the tour comes to London, allowing users to attend a free, in-depth seminar that features workflows used by some of the industry's leading film and video production companies. Apple experts will give step-by-step demonstrations that show how each of these customers used Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Server.

O2 has confirmed it will make an iPhone-related announcement in conjunction with Apple "in the coming weeks."

The first public release of Moonlight, which provides a Linux client implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application (RIA) technology, was made available this week.

Adobe today announced the prerelease version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available in beta from Adobe Labs.

AT&T has begun restricting its sales of Apple's iPhone to one device per customer, according to employees at AT&T stores in California and New York on Thursday. Also, customers can now only purchase an iPhone using a credit card.

When Apple ships its iPhone 2.0 update--and the accompanying App Store for distributing third-party software for the phone--you won't have to wait too long for native iPhone apps built by Google programmers. "We expect to have applications at Day One," said Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering.

According to NPD data released Thursday, Nintendo sold an incredible 714,000 Wiis last month, in what is typically a slower spring season. The impressive figure is more than all other non-Nintendo platforms combined, including Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and PSP.

Ballistic Publishing announces the third of its Ultimate, 16-megapixel, royalty-free photographic collections to meet the growing demand for ultra-high-quality image assets for game and film creators - Ultimate: Herioc Male.

iStockphoto has announced that it will add royalty-free audio tracks to its collection of downloadable stock content in September 2008. The company says that it will become the first to offer stock imagery, video footage, vector illustrations, Flash files and audio for purchase using one payment model.

WebAssist has introduced CSS Menu Writer, a new extension for Adobe's Dreamweaver Web site creation software. It costs US$99.99 (around £51) - or $74.99 (through May 27, 2008).

Apple confirmed on Wednesday that its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco has sold out. This is the first time in the history of the conference that WWDC has been completely sold out.

Comcast will acquire social-networking company Plaxo to power upcoming community features on its TV, broadband data and phone services.

Putting the PlayStation 2 on a diet worked for Sony, but Microsoft Wednesday squashed rumours that it was planning to shed a few pounds off the Xbox 360's bulk in 2009.

An unconfirmed list of purported Xbox 360 Spring Update features surfaced on Tuesday night, lending further credibility to rumors that Microsoft will release a Wii-like motion controller for Xbox 360.

The new Olympus E-520 boasts advanced technologies that the company says helps take the blur out. There is image stabilization built into the camera body to compensate for movement -- so that images are sharp and blur-free with any lens and even at slow shutter speeds, according to Olympus.

Konica Minolta has announced a new laser printer specifically tailored for graphic design professionals.

Following its successful results 'North-South' trial, Virgin Media will begin to roll out its 50 megabit per second (Mbps) broadband service later this year.

Following its successful results 'North-South' trial, Virgin Media will begin to roll out its 50 gigabits per second (Gbps) broadband service later this year.

Apple has achieved a landmark deal with a major US radio technology solutions provider designed to link iTunes to radio station playlists.

Square Group will host the London leg of Quark's iLove Interactive Design tour on 21 May.

As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will once again kick off the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) being held June 9-13 in San Francisco, Calif. The keynote will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9 at Moscone West.

Daz 3D has announced the release of Mimic Pro for Carrara, software to help you manage lip-synching for 3D models using Daz 3D's modeling and rendering software. It's priced at US$199.

A week after Take-Two first announced that GTA IV had broken launch day records, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed on Tuesday.

Apple is among the top six gay-friendly brands in the US, recent research reveals.