3G live within the UK

It didn't win the race to be the world's first 3G network - DoCoMo took the honours in Tokyo - but the UK competitor has finally gone live. Manx Telecom - a subsidiary of the formerly BT-owned mmO2 - has switched on a 'fully operational' third-generation (3G) mobile network in the Isle of Man. Its purpose is to serve as a test bed - within the relatively small, hilly island - for a variety of user trials. ...more

Panasonic follows the Sony print path

Panasonic has announced the UK release of its digital photoprinter, the NV-APD1, for printing photo quality prints straight from the camera or media. Released in October, the NV-APD1 weighs in at 2.4kg. ...more

Nvidia targets mid-range workstation graphics with Quadro FX 1100

Nvidia has extended its Quadro workstation range with the FX 1100. Dubbed by Nvidia as addressing the 'mid-range professional graphics' market - it is aimed at the traditional workstation space of CAD/CAM, multimedia content creation and scientific visualisation applications. With 128MB of memory and a 128-bit floating-point graphics pipeline, it is manufactured on IBM's 0. ...more

Corporates 'will pay ?350 for solid state hard disks'

Companies will pay a hefty premium for the reliability and power savings afforded by solid state hard disks, according to retailers. As Samsung releases its 32GB solid state drive to retail in the UK, one of the company's retail partners claims 'people who understand the technology' are willing to pay the extraordinary premium to replace mechanical drives. 'Even at ?350, corporates are saying they can see the TCO [total cost of ownership] benefit,' says Sanjiv Kotecha from Just Rams, who will be selling the Samsung drives under the Integral brand. ...more

Apple founder backs 'revolutionary' PDA

One of Silicon Valley's 'legendary' figures is backing the new HipTop PDA to 'revolutionise the world' when it debuts this spring. Steve Wozniak, who with Steve Jobs built the first Apple computers, has given his much-sought-after endorsement to the wireless PDA and phone that provides Internet access, instant messaging, email with attachments, personal information management (PIM), such as a calendar and address book, and an optional digital camera add-on. The device measures 116 x 65 x 28mm - 'about the size of a small pager' - and weighs a mere 150g, in which you get a 240 x 160 pixel screen. ...more