Kenwood show off Bluetooth PDA

It seems you can't throw a stick these days without hitting an electronics company touting its latest Bluetooth development. Kenwood has stepped into the fray with its mobile phone-beating PDA. The InfoVendor has an in-built Bluetooth module and is designed for outdoor use. ...more

Write once, Intel everywhere

Described by Intel as a 'cross-architecture library', the chip giant has updated its Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) to version 3.0. The release features new support for speech and video processing. ...more

Next-gen OpenOffice makes beta 2 available

Open-source office suite developer Openoffice.org has released beta 2 of the software, incorporating bug fixes and Windows compatibility improvements. Among the improvements over the previous beta, Openoffice highlights GUI support for XSLT-based filters; enhanced OLE editing support on Windows; support for printer-independent layout; improvements to PDF export and a raft of bug-fixes. ...more

PocketZip hits 100Mb

Iomega has released a 100Mb version of its PocketZip drive. Previously limited to 40Mb, the PocketZip drive could be an ideal way of keeping your data mobile while keeping down the costs of doing so. The drive will be backwards compatible and able to read and write to the 40Mb disks and the 100Mb disks will still be inexpensive (about $10 each when bought in a ten-pack - currently 40Mb disks cost about ?8 each in the UK in boxes of ten, so expect that figure to be slightly more for the 100Mb version by the time it reaches our shores). ...more

UK firms better at e-buying than e-selling

British businesses are much more likely to buy than sell over the Internet according to the National Statistics Office. Whilst 29 per cent of companies reported they bought over the internet in 2003, only five per cent sold anything - even though this total was up a quarter over the 2002 figure. The use of the Internet as an ecommerce tool depended largely on the size of company. ...more