Cardiff turns itself into a Wi-Fi zone

Cardiff city centre is to become one large Wi-Fi zone, in a partnership between the county council and BT Openzone. Fifty new hotspots are to be installed in payphones and council and commercial premises. Access will be sold on both a subscription and pay-as-you-go basis, with a proportion of the revenue going to the council. ...more

Dell certifies laptops, desktops for SUSE Line

Dell is working with Novell on certifying some of its laptops and desktops for the SUSE Linux operating system. The decision follows a recent initiative by Dell to improve customer feedback, in the form of its IdeaStorm, where the public is invited to post ideas that it would like to see taken on by Dell. The call to offer Linux was made thousands of times by users looking to have non-Windows platform options on Dell products, as well as the opportunity to have less bundled software and a choice of open-source products such as OpenOffice. ...more

Pathe publishes to the Net

British Pathe makes all 2,000 hours of published newsreel available online In a project funded by the National Lottery, British Pathe has put all the newsreels and cinemagazines online as digital videos. The archive offers 2,000 hours of footage, more than 90,000 individual items, spanning 60 years from 1910 to 1970. What is available now is everything that was shown in cinemas, which includes the the Wright brothers' first flight and footage of the Titanic. ...more

Intel's Springdale chipset springs into life

As we anticipated yesterday, Intel has now officially unveiled its Springdale chipsets (865G and 865PE). And there are new Pentium 4 chips, too. Supporting hyper-threading and a 800MHz system bus, Intel claims the increased processing throughput will improve user experience of multimedia computing. ...more

Son of digital download day

The follow-up to the popular digital download day has been slated for 21 March. Digital Download Day Europe will give Internet users €5 (?3.40) of free music downloads from the catalogues of major labels, accessible through music subscription services such as those provided by MSN, Freeserve, HMV and Tiscali. ...more