OS X to have iTunes and iMovie

Apple has announced that OS X compatible versions of iTunes, iMovie 2 and a preview of AppleWorks 6.1 will be available on Saturday. At an OS X press briefing, the company also confirmed that certain features will be missing from the OS X release; the ability to burn CDs will not come until April and DVD playback is expected later in the Spring. ...more

Intel puts its eggs in notebooks and servers

Intel has unleashed a volley of new products at this year's Intel Developer's Conference in San Jose. Paul Otellini, Executive Vice-President at Intel, gave the first public demonstration of a processor based on a 0.13micron process technology. ...more

Sony to extend its CD DRM experiment

Sony BMG, the music arm of the consumer electronics giant, is stepping up the introduction new anti-copying software for a range of its music CDs. A total of ten CD titles, covering over a million produced copies, have now been introduced using DRM software from a British company. In February, the company announced that it would be using the XCP (eXtended Copy Protection) technology from UK based First4Internet. ...more

AMD ups the ante for the multiway server market

AMD has confirmed its intends to up the ante for the multi-way server market. 'We're making a big push for the four-way server market' Richard Baker, AMD's European Marketing Manager told us today. Explaining yesterday's large, fifty per cent price cuts for its four- and eight-way Opteron server processors, Baker said the company was simply responding to customer demand. ...more

British slave trading records stored online

More details of Britain's slave trading past are becoming widely available - an ancestry-tracing website is putting the personal histories of the victims online, for the first time. The website, www.Ancestry. ...more