Computer Aid bids for eBay support

The charity Computer Aid International is teaming up with eBay to boost the donations of computer equipment to the developing world. The scheme will enable sellers to donate a percentage of money made through sales on eBay to Computer Aid. The charity will, in turn, use the donations to ship kit to needy schools and hospitals. ...more

Philips rolls out flexible displays

Roll up for the Philips flexible display, coming our way within the next couple of years, according to the Dutch electronics giant. Using organic electronics technology, Philips has created what it describes as 'the world's thinnest, most flexible, active-matrix display'. Just as importantly, the company believes it has the manufacturing processes in place to achieve mass production within a few years. ...more

Yahoo!, Cisco to promote DomainKeys as a standard

Cisco and Yahoo have submitted their anti-spam technology DomainKeys to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard. DomainKeys technology was developed by Yahoo! and is based on the concept of authentication between mail servers. Owners of mail servers transmit encrypted 'public' and 'private' key that identifies them to each other. ...more

Apple revels in second highest ever results

Apple shipped more Macs than at any time in the last five years, its latest quarterly financial results reveal, with the second highest quarterly sales and earnings in Apple's history. A 60 per cent year-on-year increase in sales of portable Macs saw Apple sell more than 1.3 million computers in the three months to 1 July, a peak last reached in 1999. ...more

A Data-Vac puts the freshness back

Here's a gadget that really sucks. A vacuum cleaner for computer users. We all know that the insides of our PCs can get a little grubby so it comes as no surprise that the Metropolitan Vacuum Cleaner Company has launched a range of vacuum cleaners with the computer user in mind. ...more