Palm's CEO steps down

Palm, the maker of handheld computers, has announced that its chief executive Carl Yankowski has resigned. While Palm is under-pressure in the ever-more crowded PDA market - Toshiba was yet another recent entry with the Pocket PC e570 - Yankowski has officially attributed his departure to the splitting of Palm into two elements. The company decided in July to spin off its Platform Solutions Group (responsible for the development of the Palm OS and its licensing) into a wholly-owned subsidiary by the end of 2001. ...more

Microsoft offers new support for WiFi security

Microsoft has announced a free download that adds in XP support for the new WiFi wireless security standard WiFi Protected Access (WPA). The download, available at the Microsoft Web site, addresses security concerns over the WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol) that was proved 'crackable' more than a year ago. Since then, stories have abounded over corporate appetite for the latest wireless networks that have been implemented by default with security controls switched off, or with the flawed WEP protocol. ...more

TSMC and Nvidia reaffirm ties amid reports that IBM has won Nvidia orders

Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reaffirmed their close cooperation following reports that IBM won a multiyear contract to build new computer-graphics chips for Nvidia. IBM said on Wednesday that it will make new graphics chip for Nvidia, winning business that would have otherwise gone to TSMC, Reuters reported. Nvidia contracts TSMC to produce its graphics and core logic chipsets used in personal computers, laptops, workstations and Microsoft's Xbox game console. ...more

HP guns for the monochrome market with printer launch

HP celebrates 20 years of the laserjet with reams of new printers. The company says that the 27 new products it is launching will replace '50 per cent of the entire printing industry's monochrome inventory.' Following two decades as market leader Hewlett Packard is keen to scotch rumours of the imminent death of the mono laser. ...more

Apple revels in second highest ever results

Apple shipped more Macs than at any time in the last five years, its latest quarterly financial results reveal, with the second highest quarterly sales and earnings in Apple's history. A 60 per cent year-on-year increase in sales of portable Macs saw Apple sell more than 1.3 million computers in the three months to 1 July, a peak last reached in 1999. ...more