Thunderbird 0.2 released

Mozilla.org has released the latest milestone version of Thunderbird, its standalone email client. Although it's very much a 'pre-alpha' release, Mozilla says it is 'very usable' and claims that, for Windows users, could cut down on the risk of machines being infected by viruses and the like. ...more

Bulldog launches nationwide high-speed broadband

Bulldog has launched two new residential high-speed broadband services, which unlike its other 1Mbps and 2Mbps offerings, are available nationwide. AllTime 1000 provides ADSL broadband at 1Mbps downstream and 256kbps upstream for ?35.24 per month with a ?58. ...more

Apple preps Bluetooth Mighty Mouse

Apple is preparing to release a Bluetooth, wireless version of the Mighty Mouse, according to documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission. Codenamed the M6, the mouse appears to be identical to the existing, wired version - without the wire, obviously. According to a draft manual submitted to the FCC, it requires OS X 10. ...more

HD DVD players reach the US

The first high-definition optical disc players have finally gone on sale in the USA. Several big-name retailers have begun selling two Toshiba HDD-DVD players alongside a choice of just four high-definition movie titles: Serenity, Million Dollar Baby, The Last Samurai and Phantom of the Opera. More titles are scheduled to be released over the next month or so. ...more

You sound different over the phone

If you think instant language translation is a thing of science fiction movies, then think again, thanks to a new interpretation system launched by Hitachi and Samsung. The free trial version of the automatic Japanese-to-Korean telephone interpretation system was launched on November 14 and is expected to last for two months. Users dial into the service and then speak one of 1,700 model Japanese sentences. ...more