Exclusive video: Flybook's revolutionary laptop design

Dialogue is a company best known for its ultraportables, such as the tiny Flybook V which makes other ultraportables look comparatively massive. And Dialogue is at the innovation game once more with its new ultraportable, the Flybook VM. At first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a run-of-the-mill 1. ...more

Another filter for safe surfing

The Internet Content Rating Association has released the ICRAfilter for parents to screen Internet content. Having worked to introduce a voluntary, source-embedded syntax for describing content (by which over 50,000 sites are labelled, apparently), ICRA's new filtering tool 'reads' the labels to help ensure content is filtered according to predefined values. According to Stephen Balkam, CEO of ICRA: 'It is important to state that no organisation, including ICRA, can guarantee a 100 per cent safe surfing experience. ...more

ARM embeds new instruction set for 2.6 Linux kernel

UK chip designer ARM has announced open source support for the 2.6 Linux production kernel. The ARMv6 Instruction Set Architecture uses new enhancements to the kernel that add features such as physical cache, application space identifiers (ASIDS) and the use of atomic operations. ...more

Via puts a padlock on its chips

Via has announced worldwide availability of its Eden ESP10000 and ESP8000 processors. With their low-power consumption and fanless operation, the processors are aimed at the embedded or thin client market. Described by Via as 'enabling PC functionality from traditionally single function devices', the low-power, x86 processors now run at speeds of 1GHz (the ESP10000) and 800Mhz (the ESP8000). ...more

Break up for BT?

Rumours that British Telecom may be split were fuelled at the weekend by the appointment as finance director of Philip Hampton, the man responsible for the break up of British Gas. But according to the Sunday Times, the impetus for the break up comes from deputy chairman Lord Marshall and other non-executive board members who are concerned about dissatisfied shareholders. The paper says that present financial director Robert Brace had become unpopular with investors, who were also concerned by plummeting share prices. ...more