Toshiba to market household robot

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has come up with a 'home robot' designed to help with household chores. The ApriAlpha is apparently able to recognise up to 100 different faces and can hold a conversation. The machine is said to be programmable to manage the operations of other networked household devices through a Bluetooth interface. ...more

Toshiba refreshes its notebook range

Toshiba has updated its range of ultra-lightweight notebooks with the 12.1in Portege M300 (pictured). Weighing just 1. ...more

Mobile AMD Athlons get faster

News for the notebook market. A point increase in speed for mobile Athlon processors - the mobile AMD Athlon 4 now comes in a 1.2GHz flavour. ...more

Free information protesters march on Brussels

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is organising a march in protest against EU legislation that could make software patentable. Tomorrow's march outside the EU's headquarters in Brussels will take place while ministers within discuss whether to include software in its proposed directive on patents. Although software was explicitly excluded in a vote on the proposed directive last September, activists are worried that powers within the EU are planning to make amendments that would include software before the directive is finalised. ...more

CNet to relaunch MP3.com in the new year.

According to a report today by Reuters, CNet Networks has announced plans to offer a music upload and download site for independent artists on its newly acquired MP3.com web site early in the new year. CNet which already owns news. ...more