Dreamcast set-top box unveiled

For those of you saddened by the news that Sega will not be producing any more Dreamcast units, take heart in the first picture of Sega and Pace's new hybrid set-top box. The unit looks very similar to Pace's other digital receivers but, instead of sporting a black case, the unit has a familiar Dreamcast cream livery. The unit doesn't have a CD drive so there won't be any opportunity to play your old DC games, instead users will have to rely on the supplied cable modem to download software and be part of the 'pay-to-play' experience. ...more

Take some pictures with your Palm

A new gadget from Kodak enables Palm users to turn their PDA into a regular digital still camera. The Kodak PalmPix connects to almost any current Palm model and gives you the chance to take pictures with your organiser. The unit features two picture resolutions, a 2x zoom, and it can store one picture for every 100k of available Palm memory. ...more

Google blunder on stock options threatens IPO

Google is looking at an emergency stock buyback plan after it realised it had forgotten to register staff shares under federal and state regs for securities. The company, which is teetering on the edge of an expected $36bn IPO, is now offering to rescind some 28 million shares and stock options granted to current and past staff, as well as consultants, between September 2001 and June 2004. In an SEC statement filed yesterday, it said: 'These option grants and stock issuances may have violated the Securities Act of 1933 and the state securities laws. ...more

PowerBook powers up to 800MHz

Apple has revamped its PowerBook line-up, adding two new 800MHz models and incorporating an enhanced 1280x854 15.2 inch display. At the entry level is a 667MHz PowerBook with 256MB RAM, a 30GB hard disk and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, selling for ?2,149 (ex. ...more

Microsoft adds Canon colour to Windows Vista

Microsoft has chosen Canon's Kyuanos' colour management technology for its new Windows 'Vista' operating system due out next year. The companies claim that Kyuanos will provide the Windows Colour System with better screen-to-print matching, better overall colour appearance, and support for higher fidelity printing. The boom in digital cameras, camera phones and the increasing use of the Web to publish galleries of photographs through online services like Picasa and Flickr, as well as the increasing use of photo quality printers, mean that picture editing and colour fidelity are increasingly in demand. ...more