Microsoft records falling profits

Microsoft delivered its fourth quarter results, ahead of expectations but still showing a net profit some 24 per cent down on the corresponding quarter in 2005. Even so, this comes on the back of lowered guidance from the company back April. The company showed Q4 profits of $2. ...more

WAP's second coming

Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola have announced their support for the emerging XHTML Basic-based WAP 2.0. By adopting a standard in use on the Internet, WAP 2. ...more

releases new XML editor

The company that revels in the tag of has updated its XML editor Features new to version 2.0 include editing and viewing XML documents as a graphical tree, spell checking, XML Catalog support and automatic generation of documents, with minimal markup, from a given DTD (document type definition) or XML Schema. Designed for use with all XML-related documents, it supports XML, XSD, XSL and DTD files. ...more

AMD updates notebook processors

Better mobile multimedia, promises AMD, as it releases the mobile Athlon 2000+ and the mobile Athlon XP 1900+. AMD is highlighting the extra performance delivered by the new processors for running multimedia apps such as video and image editing and DVD playback. The clock speeds of the new 2000+ and 1900+ models are 1. ...more

Comment: Politicians fail the Internet test

Having spent a decade in technology journalism, certain things instantly send my scepticism soaring: press releases proclaiming a new product to be 'truly revolutionary', guesstimates of how many zillions virus attacks cost businesses and anything that's the 'world's first'. But one thing that really brings out the inner-cynic in me is politicians taking an interest in technology. Take this unsolicited email that arrived in my inbox recently, in reaction to Gnarls Barkley's Crazy appearing at the top of the iTunes charts. ...more