Mac fans buzzing over anticipated Apple 'iPhone' - Reuters

When it comes to the much-rumoured arrival of a hybrid phone and iPod music player from Apple, it seems the question has morphed from 'If' to 'When' among fans and analysts. Since Apple's introduction of the iPod five years ago, the company has sold more than 67 million of the devices and more than 1.5 billion songs from its iTunes online music store. ...more

UPDATED: IBM and Intel go public with design specs of the BladeCenter platform

IBM and Intel have announced that they are to open up the design specifications of their BladeCenter platform. The partners say that the publishing of the specs is intended to enable third parties to design and build compatible kit and grow the market. A Blade Server consists of a motherboard with single or multiple processors, memory, a network connection and sometimes storage. ...more

Palm signs deal with RIM

Palm has signed a deal with Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular Blackberry mobile email device, to bring the BlackBerry Connect service to Palm's Treo 650 smartphone. The announcement is another development for Palm as it changes its strategy away from its traditional Palm OS roots towards one based on best-of-breed from third parties. In September the company announced that it would be developing a Treo running Windows. ...more

Microsoft urges November security patch action

Microsoft is urging its customers to install its November security fixes, after discovering exploit code aimed at attacking the vulnerabilities patched. Released just days ago, many businesses and consumers should have already installed the latest round of security bulletins, but Microsoft does not want to take any chances and has issued an advisory detailing the new threat. It says that although there is public proof of concept code targeting the vulnerability, there is no evidence as yet that this is being used in any form of attack. ...more

Blue sky time in the BlueSpace office

IBM is highlighting its work for an 'office of the future'. Working in conjunction with Steelcase, an American company involved with workplace design, IBM has dubbed the concept 'BlueSpace'. The essential idea is to better marry technology with the office environment: (in the words of IBM) to 'integrate the physical workspace with advanced computer, sensor, display and wireless technologies. ...more