Philips doubles up with new portable players

Philips has unveiled a new 1,000-song micro audio jukebox with built-in FM radio. One of the gadgets to feature at this year's CeBit show in Hannover, the credit card-sized hdd070 (pictured, top) is 1.8cm thick and weighs 95g. ...more

Company guarantees e-mail virus protection

Are you one of those people that are terrified of contracting a weird virus from the Internet? Do you tremble in fear every time your e-mail client completes an e-mail download? Well, if this sounds like your predicament, one company has stepped forward to play on the fears of Internet users and claims to provide total virus protection. The UK company says that its software has sufficiently developed artificial intelligence that it can spot e-mail viruses before they attack. The software re-routes the client's e-mail via their own servers where it is scanned for any suspicious attachments. ...more

Panasonic to program your telly, over broadband

Panasonic is putting products on shop shelves that let you record TV via a mobile phone. On 10 April, Panasonic - aka Matsushita - will launch the DY-NET2 broadband receiver in Japan that connects set-top boxes with hard disk drives to the Internet via ADSL broadband. You can then use a mobile phone to see an online EPG (electronic program guide) and set up the DY-NET2 to tell the set top device to record your day's viewing. ...more

PlusNet rolls out 8meg services from ?14.99 a month

PlusNet has launched a new range of up-to-8Mbps broadband services designed to appeal to the 'Internet savvy'. In an oblique reference to recent developments in the broadband market, the Sheffield-based ISP has warned Net users not to 'rush in to a "free" or cheap broadband deal'. PlusNet believes that broadband buyers look for more than just speed and price. ...more

IEEE backtracks on 802.11g performance

Airport users wondering why they have never been able to achieve anything like the performance claimed by Apple and other wireless network vendors had their questions answered last month. Global standards body, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE approved a new draft for the 802.11g wireless networking standard (branded by Apple as Airport Extreme) which puts the actual data throughput rate at between 10 and 20Mbits/sec. ...more