nVidia unwraps GeForce 4

With spring just around the corner, the time was right for the annual announcement of nVidia's latest graphics chip, this time around the rather predictably-titled GeForce 4. With almost every high-end feature of the card getting a once over from the nVidia technicians, existing features run faster and more efficiently resulting in what the company describes as improvements "at no extra cost". You can also add in a bunch of new technologies such as 'nView' multi-monitor and Desktop support, second-generation Lightspeed Architecture and a heat sink/fan combo that looks like Jaws. ...more

Announcement of PC Pro competition winner

The winner of the Visual Studio.NET competition is.. ...more

Amazon.co.uk offers free delivery on orders over ?39

Online book retailer Amazon has announced that it is to offer free delivery on all orders in the UK over ?39 on a permanent basis. The announcement was made following news that Amazon has made only its second ever quarterly profit. The Super Saver Delivery option, an extension of a trial promotion launched before Christmas, means that customers who spend over the ?39 threshold will save around ?2. ...more

Spam@home project promises it is CAN-SPAM compliant

Forget finding the cure for cancer, or joining the search for extra-terrestrial life, with VirtualMDA you can use your computer's excess resources to send out other people's email marketing, get paid and enjoy all the kudos of a spammer. For a limited time, VirtualMDA will give you $5 just for signing up, and for every CPU hour your PC dedicates to sending out marketing emails you'll get another $1. Sounds too bad to be true? It isn't. ...more

LaCie intros secure hard drives

LaCie has introduced a new range of hard drives with hardware encryption and biometric access control. The 40, 80, and 120GB SAFE Mobile Hard Drives offer 56-bit DES or 128-bit Triple-DES encryption plus fingerprint authentication to restrict access to data. The encryption key depends on a 24-character pass phrase stored onboard making each drive unique and 'impossible to hack'. ...more