Analysis: Apple's musical income pleases analysts

One significant statistic was largely missed when Apple announced its financial results last week: income from its music and iPod business now makes up almost half of the company's total revenue. Despite what some described as disappointing iPod sales of 8.1 million - disappointing enough to reflect a 32 per cent year-on-year increase - sales of the portable music players, added to income from the iTunes Music Store and from sales of iPod accessories totalled almost $2bn, 45 per cent of the quarterly turnover. ...more

UPDATED: SiteAdvisor software warns of untrustworthy sites

Five per cent of all Internet traffic goes to disreputable websites according to a survey by SiteAdvisor. For the past 11 months the company has been tracking Net usage with specially-developed Web crawling software and found that one in every 20 sites visited uploaded unwanted software to the visitor's PC, sent out spam or attempted to trick users into giving up sensitive information. They say that they visited 95 per cent of all websites during the survey, downloaded and tested 475,000 pieces of software and automatically filled in forms, each with one of 1. ...more

No dead pixels - guaranteed

Display manufacturer CTX is claiming a first with guarantee that its forthcoming S530 LCD displays will have no dead pixels. Dead pixels are areas on LCD screens where no image is shown and most manufacturers allow for a certain number. The problem has been an ongoing source of frustration, largely for notebook users. ...more

Toshiba opens new NAND flash memory plant

Toshiba and its partner SanDisk have opened a new flash memory fab in Japan. Due to begin commercial production in the second half of this year, the plant is expect to turn out some 10,000 300mm wafers a month by the end of 2005. The plant, 50. ...more

HP launches new lightweight projector

HP has launched a new mobile digital projector that weighs less than 2kg The HP MP3222 offers 1024x768 images and weighs 1.7kg. It is also small enough to fit into a briefcase. ...more