Palm lays the battleground for PDA war

With Palm's new m500 and m105 models hitting the market, the company is keen to rid itself of old stock and has cut prices on its Web site accordingly, but not by much. The Vx, which is set to be superseded by the m500, is down $50 to $299, while the m100, to be succeeded by the m105, drops $20 to 129. The Palm IIIc is also down to $299, a drop of $30. ...more

Broadband goes eight times faster

London-based broadband provider Bulldog has announced a new 4Mbits/sec residential ADSL service. Primetime 4000 is an ADSL service which provides different speeds depending on when it is being used. Maximum speeds of 400Mbit/sec downstream and 400Kbits/sec upstream are available only outside office hours - from 6pm to 8am weekdays and all weekend. ...more

Gates gets slapped wrist over private investments

Bill Gates has fallen foul of the US anti-trust authorities over two share dealings he made in 2001 and 2002. As a result he has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine. The offences concern Gates purchase of shares in two companies, Services Incorporated and ICOS Corporation. ...more

Firefox plugs memory leaks

The Mozilla organisation, the developers of the open source browser Firefox and Thunderbird email client, has released an updated version of Firefox. The new version 1.5. ...more

Sony and DoCoMo sign up to mobile gaming

With the news that NTT DoCoMo is bringing its popular i-mode service to mobile users in Europe, even better is that you'll soon be able to use its handset to play PlayStation 2 games. NTT DoCoMo's six global partners have signed an agreement with Sony to develop the technology to link the devices. And now that the PS2 has Internet connectivity, we should soon see gamers all over the world competing with each other, whether from a console in the front room, or a mobile on the train. ...more