Tesco sells Apples

Tesco has dedicated an area of one of its superstores to selling Macs, iPods and accessories. If successful, separate Apple zones will be created in other Tesco Extra stores nationwide. Retail Week reports that this is the first time that the UK's biggest retailer has set aside an area of its stores for a single, non-food brand. ...more

PalmSource hardens smart phone support with Cobalt 6.1

PalmSource unveiled its latest operating system software for handheld devices at its European Developers Conference in Munich this week, with the emphasis very much on the smart phone rather than its traditional home, the PDA. Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 integrates a host of wireless technologies that had previously only been available when added to devices by manufacturers. ...more

Tiscali to fix PlayStation Network drop-outs

Tiscali has confirmed reports that PlayStation 3 users are being disconnected from the PlayStation Network, Sony's online gaming service for PS3 owners. PS3 users complained that the connection usually works without a hitch until Tiscali's peak period starts, during which the ISP employs 'traffic shaping' to allocate limited bandwidth more equally among all it users. It is not clear, however, whether this is definitely the cause of the PS3 issue, not least because other ISPs employ traffic shaping and have not been subject to the same complaint. ...more

IBM wouldn't let it lie

It's always fun to see hi-tech giants picking fights with each other. Before Christmas, we had Oracle and Microsoft getting catty, and now IBM and Sun have traded blows. At issue is Sun's self-acclaimed status of "Number 1" in the server business. ...more

Microsoft teams up for virtualisation with XenSource

Microsoft is teaming up with virtualisation open-source company XenSource to develop interoperability between their respective hypervisor products. The collaboration will result in Xen-enabled Linux platforms being run on Microsoft's virtualisation technology in the upcoming version of Windows Server, code-named Longhorn. Microsoft will also offer technical support for Xen-enabled Linux guest operating systems through its standard channels. ...more