Nvidia unveils its fastest ever mobile GPU

Chip builder Nvidia has introduced what it claims is the world's fastest GPU for notebooks, the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. Although not generally known for use as high performance games machines, notebooks using the Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU support Nvidia's range of visual technologies aimed at the gamer including Shader Model 3.0 and PureVideo Technology. ...more

HP knocks out boardroom spying case in $14.5m settlement

The computer giant shells out $14.5 million to end the civil case against it but the criminal investigation remains HP will pay $14.5 million to settle the alleged spying case that resulted in the computer giant's chair Patricia Dunn's resignation, in addition to vowing to adopt certain reforms as part of a five-year programme. ...more

Key open-source code passes muster

Analysis of the source code for key open-source projects has shown fewer than 29 'defects' in every 100,000 lines of code. Analysis of the LAMP stack - the Linux platform, Apache web server, MySQL database and Perl, PHP or Python scripting languages - showed that the commonly used open-source building blocks were well below the average for some 32 open-source projects scrutinised by Coverity. These included the likes of Samba, gcc, Gnome and FreeBSD. ...more

Updated: PlusNet hauls services to 2Mbps minimum

PlusNet has announced that with immediate effect all its users will be upgraded to 2Mbps, including customers of its ?14.99 entry-level Broadband Plus package. It is also offering free activation and modem to new customers. ...more

Intel and IBM add to traffic-jam of in-car computing

You wait ages for an automotive computing system to turn up, and then three come along at once. Following on from our reports on Microsoft's Car.Net and Sun's dashboard Java, comes news of Intel's collaboration with IBM to produce an in-car client platform of their own. ...more