Sony drives the DVD+RW

Sony has announced a new internal DVD+RW drive with a 2.4x write speed for DVD. That's about 1Gb of data every five minutes. ...more

More sacked for e-mail abuse

Following on from the recent story concerning two men who lost their appeal of unfair dismissal over e-mail abuse, it has come to light that six more people from a different company have been dismissed. The former employees at the Birmingham sales office of Cable & Wireless were dismissed and six other staff were disciplined for sending offensive e-mail. It is believed that a number of those concerned will be appealing against the dismissal and claim that they have been victimised and that abuse of the computer system is rife in the company. ...more

Google optimises Gmail for mobile

Google is looking to speed the delivery of email to a mobile phone, through a new service dubbed Gmail for mobile. The Java-based interface will be freely available. The search giant is introducing a custom version of Googlemail that can run on any phone with Java software, or close to 300 different mobile phone devices. ...more

Liteon has announced new top-end DVD burners

While the technology has already reached the maximum 16-speed write limits, there is still room for improvement when it comes to rewrite: erasing existing data and writing fresh data in its place. Liteon's new drives claim an 8-speed rewrite for + media and 6-speed rewrite performance for - media. The +RW format is supported by the DVD Alliance, while the -RW format is championed by the DVD Forum. ...more

Two in the Palm

Two new top of the range offerings for Palm's m100 and m500 series. Colour has traditionally put a PDA out of reach for the consumer pocket. But Palm's new m130 (pictured right) offers just that, in the form of a backlit 16-bit colour STN LCD screen, for ?229. ...more