Parthus on the integrated Bluetooth trail again

Parthus announced new Bluetooth-integrated products at the Bluetooth Developers Conference yesterday. It demonstrated the first Bluetooth-enabled MP3 player, integrating its BlueStream (Bluetooth) and MediaStream (multimedia) platforms, which allows peer-to-peer and peer-to-multi-peer file sharing. This means users could share their audio files wirelessly using products based on this technology. ...more

Comment: Open Source .NET?

The Open Source movement is shaping up to create an equivalent to Microsoft's .NET framework, stealing the Redmond giant's thunder when it comes to delivering Web-based services. But are they mistaken to even try? Mono and dotGNU There are a couple of developments underway. ...more

Toshiba high speed DVD writer hits the shelves

Toshiba Europe has begun to ship its new double-layer (DL) DVD writer capable of writing 5x on DVD+R media. The company says that the half height SD-R5372 offers the fastest DL write speed of any DVD writer on the market. Toshiba says that the device can store up to 8. ...more

Napster and Virgin Radio to present first UK downloads chart

Virgin Radio is to broadcast the UK's first online music chart, based on paid-for downloads and streams from Napster. The chart will be unveiled on 29 August and Napster claims it will be 'the most comprehensive assessment of online music tastes.' 'As well as hitting our core demographic and having millions of listeners,' said Leanne Sharman, Napster's UK general manager, 'Virgin Radio enjoys over one million unique online visitors a month, making it an ideal brand partner for Napster. ...more

Ex-Apple man appointed PalmSource chairman

PalmSource has named fromer Apple executive Jean-Lous Gass?e as its new chairman, replacing Eric Benhamou who resigned last month. Gass?e joined Palm (before it split into PalmSource and palmOne) in 2003 when it acquired the assets when assets of the software company he founded, Be. Before Be he spent nine years at Apple, where he headed the Products Division. ...more