Adobe updates Photoshop raw plug-in

Adobe has updated the Photoshop CS plug-in that enables the image-editing application to import raw image formats from digital cameras. Available on high-end and some mid-range digicams, proprietary raw formats allow photographers to save images without any compression or processing applied - in effect it is the digital equivalent of film. The Camera Raw 2. ...more

Vodafone introduces revolutionary 'simple' mobile phone

Following what is doubtless years of research, Vodafone is to introduce a radical new concept in mobile phones. The world's biggest mobile operator is to launch a mobile phone, which - get this - only makes phone calls. The Vodafone Simply range is aimed at the techno baffled who find the endless complexity of the modern mobile simply too complicated, or just don't feel the need to play Snake on a train or take pictures of their mates falling out of a club at closing time. ...more

Microsoft leaks release date for Whistler

Microsoft has set the internal date for the final version of Whistler at 18 April 2001, according to an internal e-mail. ZDNet News reports that the e-mail says the final version of the follow up to Windows 2000 will be minted in the spring and in the shops in the second half of 2001. Beta 1 is due to be released on 11 October and Beta 2 is due on 6 December. ...more

DarkMail levels rise 400 per cent

Levels of email that are sent to people that don't exist have risen 400 per cent according to security company Email Systems. Email Systems suggests that between 65 and 75 per cent of all email traffic is classified as such, with between 25 and 35 per cent of mail successfully making it to inboxes around the world. This figure includes spam and viruses as well as legitimate mail. ...more

Intel ships the Itanium 2

Faster data analysis and online transaction processing is the promise of Intel's next-generation 64-bit processor, the Itanium 2, which begins commercial shipments today. The Itanium 2 is targeted at servers and workstations running enterprise-scale or technically demanding applications and it features a new Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design. In layman's terms, this means that compilers are used to pre-optimise parallel execution of data within the processor. ...more