Dell goes slim and wireless with new Axim 3

Dell has announced the Axim 3 range of handheld products that are slimmer and more stylish than their X5 brethren, but still priced to compete with Palm at the value end. Top-priced ?229 Axim X3i features the latest Intel XScale chip at 400MHz, 64MB of both SDRAM and ROM memory, plus in-built WiFi 802.11b wireless. ...more

Tough Tablet PC thuds into the UK

iTronix has announced it will be selling a sub-?2,000 Tablet PC that can withstand extremes of temperature and take a few knocks. From September, the GoBook Tablet PC will be available in the UK for ?1,935 inc VAT and has been built with the outdoor life in mind. It can withstand temperatures of between -20o and 60oC in use and has been tested for ruggedness with 26 consecutive drops of three feet onto plywood over concrete. ...more

Sony develops wireless LAN-compatible 20-inch LCD TV

Aimed at the corporate display market or simply those who love mixing their technologies: Sony has announced a wireless LAN-compatible LCD TV. For the Japanese market only at present, the 20-inch KLV-20WS2 will work with both the 5GHz 802.11a and the 2. ...more

Microsoft ruffles anti-trust feathers with IE-only documents

The MHT file format 'significantly limits the practical usability' of the relevant documents, claims the US Government and the seventeen states who were part of the final settlement. Microsoft, which has been forced to publish details of its software as part of its antitrust settlement, is providing the information in a form which can only be read by Internet Explorer, according to Associated Press. The US Government and the seventeen states who were part of the final settlement have complained that the MHT file format 'significantly limits the practical usability' of the published documents as it doesn't support sufficiently useful search technologies. ...more

Networks to run 10 times faster

A team of researchers has discovered a method that could allow semiconductors made of traditional materials to be able to switch at the speed of light. Announcing their discovery in the journal Nature, the team from Stanford in the US says that the design is 10 times faster than existing switches that might herald a new generation of ultra high-speed networks. The team says that they have built a modulator made of silicon and germanium. ...more