Jabra preps Bluetooth headset range

Jabra headset maker GN Netcom will launch a range of new Bluetooth devices at next week's CES show in Las Vegas, including a Bluetooth hub that allows headset wearers to pick up deskbound and mobile calls through their headsets. The A7010 will hit UK stores in April and includes a Jabra JX10 Bluetooth headset in the bundle. The hub on its own will be available in March. ...more

Slim DVD from LaCie

LaCie has again teamed up with designer FA Porsche, this time result is a slimline, portable DVD burner. The 4x rewriter is compatible with both the 'plus' and 'minus' DVD standards and, as you would expect, also provides DVD playback and CD read-write capabilities. The drive is available with either a USB 2 or FireWire connection and will cost around ?160 (SRP, inc. ...more

Tiscali ups the anti-BT complaints ante

Tiscali and other communications companies are to drop a complaint against BT made under the Telecommunications Act and relodge it under the more powerful Competition Act. The complaint, from Tiscali, Energis and Your Communications, claims that BT is using its monopolistic weight to unfairly penalise those communications providers that took up its Datastream broadband service by 'multiple tactics', such as cutting the prices of its preferred broadband wholesale offerings. The trio will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Freeserve, who successfully managed to force Oftel to reconsider a complaint of predatory pricing by taking the complaint to the Competition Commission Appeals Tribunal. ...more

AMD explores Barcelona quad-core in more detail

AMD has unveiled a few more details about its long-awaited native quad-core chip, codenamed 'Barcelona'. Scheduled to appear in the first half of 2007 - first for servers, but then rolled out across AMD desktop and laptop offerings - it is the next major step for AMD multi-core processing. Giuseppe Amato, AMD's Technical Director for EMEA, was briefing journalists about developments, conveniently ahead of Intel's Beijing IDF, and it was Amato who first revealed details of the K10 architecture back in September 2006 - AMD outlines its quad-core computing. ...more

Terabyte backups launched for consumers

Maxtor is launching a terabyte backup solution for consumers. The OneTouch III Turbo Edition comes in 600GB and 1,000GB portions and supports connections to both Macs and PCs via USB 2.0 and various flavours of FireWire. ...more