Turn your Palm into a robot

If you own a Palm computer, you might be wondering what's coming next for this versatile little machine. Well, a project at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the US has resulted in the first Palm-powered robot. For around $260 (about ?180), you can turn your PDA into a basic wheeled robot - in other words, you will not be creating something as complex as R2D2, just a basic device that scuttles around. ...more

Apple fixes Java security problem

One for those involved with cross platform development. Apple has released an upgrade for its Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ). Version 2. ...more

Yahoo! stock stumbles

Despite meeting forecasts with its latest financial results, Yahoo! has faced the displeasure of the markets, concerned about the future performance of the Internet media giant. As far as the figures go, for the first quarter ending 31 March - net revenue totalled $193m compared to $180m for the same quarter in 2001. Pre-tax earnings were $24. ...more

UK buys 450,000 iTunes

Apple sold 800,000 songs in the first week since the iTunes Music Store's launch in Europe. The UK accounted for 450,000. Apple claimed that UK sales are 16 times greater than those of iTMS's closest competitor OD2. ...more

ARM gives licence to Motorola

ARM Holdings has signed an agreement to license its chip technology to Motorola. Reuters reports that, under the terms of the agreement, ARM would license some of its microchip designs to the American giant. Motorola would take advantage of these in its families of 32-bit embedded processors (PowerPC, MCORE and ColdFire) used in mobile phones and other devices. ...more