New Rapport chip promises pin sharp streaming video on a mobile phone

Californian start up Rapport Inc has demonstrated a new chip that could transform mobile communications. Together with IBM, the company has developed a design that features 1,024 eight-bit processing elements together with a PowerPC core on a single, low-cost chip. It is being previewed at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. ...more

University to set up archive of bust dot com company business plans

Budding entrepreneurs and historians of the future will be able to look back on the madness of the dot com boom. The University of Maryland has received government and private grants to archive the business and marketing plans of those companies launched between 1996 and 2002 that thought having a domain name and venture capital backing meant they could retire at 25. The University of Maryland's Robert H. ...more

HP unveils sub-?200 wireless printer

HP has unveiled the new DeskJet 5850 A4 inkjet printer complete with wireless connectivity for up to five computers. The printer supports the 802.11b wireless standard compatible with both Apple's AirPort and Intel's Centrino, as well as most other wireless cards and routers, The inkjet itself prints borderless at A4 and 10x15cm at a maximum 21 pages per minute black and white and 15ppm colour. ...more

PC Pro Update: Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E-7010

Four weeks ago, we discovered that Fujitsu Siemens sent in the wrong machine to our Power notebooks group test (see issue 95, September 2002). Instead of the 1.7GHz Pentium 4-M chip we tested, our readers could only buy a 1. ...more

DirectX 8.0 is out tomorrow

The latest version of Microsoft's DirectX 8.0 is complete and will be available for download from tomorrow (11 November). The latest version will be freely available from the DirectX Web site here and the Software Development Kit will be available from here. ...more