Hauppauge keeps Pace on digital TV

Hauppauge has brought down the price of its digital TV PCI card to the sweet sub-?100 mark. With the Government pushing its digital TV drive, more free-to-air channels launching and Pace launching it's ?99.99 set-top box, PC users can now get digital TV cheaply with the Nova-T PCI card. ...more

Intel cuts prices on Pentium 4 and Xeon

Intel has announced its expected round of price cuts. The changes affect Pentium 4 and Xeon server processors. The current top-level 3. ...more

FileMaker 8 Pro goes native for PDF and Excel authoring

FileMaker has unveiled a new version of its eponymous database application for Mac OSX and Windows. Key components of FileMaker 8 Pro include native PDF and Excel authoring. Also available is FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced (an upgrade to the product previously known as FileMaker Developer) while the Server, Server Advanced and Mobile incarnations will be released later this year. ...more

Samsung's Blu-ray first faces delay

Samsung is delaying the US launch of its first Blu-ray player until June. The next-gen optical disc player is now due to hit the market in the west on 25 June, rescheduled from 23 May, reports Reuters. 'We still anticipate that the Samsung BD-P1000 will be the first Blu-Ray player to launch at a national level in the United Sates,' it quotes a Samsung statement. ...more

Self-healing WebSphere released

IBM updates its e-business software environment, WebSphere. Version 5 of WebSphere Application Server provides new auto-configuration features to help lower administrative costs. A 'self-healing' feature involves WebSphere analysing problematic patterns that could indicate future glitches. ...more