WiMAX wireless broadband body created

Just as you were getting a handle on 802.11, along comes 802.16. ...more

Mandrake sees good demand for desktop Linux

Mandrake expects to finish the year in profit, following positive half year results announced today. The Linux company's financials from last October to March show a 20 per cent growth in revenue, year on year, to €2.52mn. ...more

AMD reveals Opteron chipset with PCI Express boosted data throughput

AMD has announced details of a new chipset for Opteron-based servers and workstations. Part of the AMD-8000 series, the AMD-8132 HyperTransport PCI-X 2.0 tunnel brings PCI-X 2. ...more

Microsoft struggles to deliver Office 2007 converters

Microsoft has admitted it's still struggling to make Office 2007 compatible with Macs, three months after the official launch of the software. Microsoft has finally released - in beta form - the first of the promised plug-ins that enable Mac versions of Office to open Office 2007 documents. Specifically, those saved in the new Open XML format, which was introduced with the release of Office 2007 for Windows. ...more

iPod goes video

Apple has unveiled the fifth generation iPod with support for video playback through its enlarged, 2.5in colour screen. Available for the first time in a colour other than white, namely black, the new iPod provides either 30GB or 60GB of storage. ...more