Acrobat 5.0 released

Acrobat 5.0 will be somersaulting its way to a browser near you following the latest release of Adobe's document viewing program. The new version features better integration with the Web and support for the vendor-neutral database standard ODBC, for linking PDF documents back to databases. ...more

Intel unveils 3.2GHz Pentium 4

Intel has announced a new Pentium 4 processor. Incorporating Hyper-Threading - Intel's support for virtual parallel processing - it operates at a clock speed of 3.2GHz with an 800MHz bus speed and a 512KB Level 2 cache. ...more

UK businesses have broadband advantage

UK businesses enjoy the some of the cheapest broadband prices, according to a new report by industry regulator Oftel. Oftel's Internet and Broadband Brief - July 2002 shows that amongst the countries surveyed - the UK, Sweden, the USA, Germany and France - UK SMEs (small and medium enterprises) pay an average of ?29 per month, largely due to BT's recent cut in its DSL wholesale prices from ?30 to ?14.75. ...more

UPDATED: Blu-ray accelerates introduction of new DRM technology

The Blu-ray Disc Association has announced that following breaches of the security of the high-definition format's AACS security technology, it has brought forward the planned release date of the BD-Plus (BD+), a more advanced anti-copying system. BD+ is an entirely different encryption system to AACS. Instead of each movie having the same encryption key, BD+ allows each disc to install a small piece of encryption software on a player, so that each disc has its own key. ...more

Acer expands its value line of LCD displays

Acer has added new TFT monitors to its Value range, with prices from ?200 ex. VAT. The new models are the Acer AL1511s, the Acer AL1711s and the Acer AL1912s, which are 15in, 17in and 19in displays respectively. ...more