Thumb-sized digicam for Palm-sized PDA

Veo has launched its Photo Traveler digital camera for SD-ready Palm handhelds in the UK. Costing a penny under £80 and available from the likes of PC World, Currys and Dixons, the camera fits into the SD slot on m125, m130, m500 and Tungsten T handhelds. The point and shoot camera captures images in full 24-bit colour on its VGA (640x480) CMOS sensor. ...more

Intel puts the 'n' in Centrino

Intel has updated the wireless component inside its Centrino laptop platform. In the technology trinity of processor, chipset and wireless networking, Intel has adopted 802.11n for the Wi-Fi comms. ...more

Retro a go-go

If you're of a certain age you might be able to remember the golden age of gaming, when home arcade units took batteries and had a mini screen of its own. Author Jaro Gielens has put together a coffee table tome all about the early days of handheld gaming, long before the Nintendo Gameboy hit the scene. The book is called Electronic Plastic and chronicles the first 13 years of battery-operated handheld fun. ...more

Blogging guidelines issued to dissidents

Today dissidents and whistle blowers around the world are increasingly using the internet to get their messages out to a wider audience. Nowadays this means using a blog to provide information about political movements or news that your government really does not want made public. The Chinese government in particular is notorious for cracking down on information transmitted through electronic means while at the same time encouraging the same technologies to fuel its economic expansion. ...more

EU enters talks with US over e-commerce

European officials met with US Government e-commerce experts and representatives from the private sector in Brussels on Tuesday to schedule a series of meetings to head off potential clashes of future e-commerce policies. The meeting was convened to avoid cases such as the EU-US safe harbour agreement for online customer data protection that took two years to push through because it was beset by disagreements and lack of momentum. Robert LaRussa, US Commerce Undersecretary, said that the discussion included intellectual property protection, Internet infrastructure and security, electronic payments and other issues. ...more