New Epson four-colour pigment ink printers for the home

Epson has announced two new printers, the Stylus C70 and C60, aimed at the advanced home user. The C70 can produce fine detail using Variable-Sized Droplet and 3 picolitre Ultra MicroDot technology. It offers 2880dpi at a speed of 16ppm for black text. ...more

Borland unveils new Janeva conventions

Borland has announced Janeva, a system designed to bridge the gap between .Net and enterprise Java. Borland believes many organisations will be using both Microsoft and Java platforms when it comes to providing Web Services, and it sees Janeva as a means to fill some of the gaps between the two approaches. ...more

New NetSky strain let loose on the wires

And still the worms and viruses come. This time, a new variant of the Netsky worm thrives on PIF files. Following in the wake last week of Bizex and MyDoom variants, there have already been warning about Bagle-F and G worms today. ...more

Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on Java and the Internet (part 2)

O'Reilly & Associates is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. To mark the event - and coinciding with a visit of Tim O'Reilly to London - we put the important questions to him regarding the battle between IBM and SCO, the fate of Linux, his involvement in the world of open source, and his love of science fiction.. ...more

Sony cuts 10,000 jobs worldwide

Sony is to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide, around 7 per cent of its workforce, and sell more than $1bn of assets in order to reverse its recent disappointing performance. Chief executive Howard Stringer hopes that the restructuring will give an annual saving of $1bn. 'Sony and its peers all face tremendous pressure in the marketplace, but we have a sense of urgency and we have a sense of purpose,' he said at a press conference. ...more