Price check: TFT monitors

In September, when last we looked, a 15in TFT monitor would set you back ?187. Today, the cheapest we saw was at Dixons in the form of a Proview CY-465 with built-in speakers for ?169.99. ...more

JPEGs affected by new virus

Another day, another virus. But this one infects JPEG files. In terms of the threat posed by the new virus, experts rate it as low - W32. ...more

German chancellor calls for 3G rethink

Billions of euros of debt have been incurred to win 3G licences, but opinions on the matter are shifting in Europe. The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, has now added his voice to the call for a rethink. Speaking at the huge CeBIT technology trade show in Hannover, Schroeder applauded a recent decision by German telecom companies to bury their rivalries in order to pool the costs involved in a new communications infrastructure. ...more

A browser to speech-enable the Web

Home Page Reader 3.0 for Windows is IBM's talking Web browser, designed to enable visually impaired users take greater advantage of the Web. Combining Microsoft's Internet Explorer and IBM's ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech technology, v3. ...more

Apple announces eight-core Mac Pro

Apple has launched its much-anticipated update to the Mac Pro, and added an eight-core machine to its line-up. 'Consider the bar officially raised,' it said. Both machines in the Mac Pro line-up and now dual processor models. ...more