Channel 4 finds Lost online

The new series of Lost and Desperate Housewives feature in the launch of a Channel 4 video-on-demand (VOD) service. The shows will now be streamed from the Channel 4 website (www.channel4. ...more

FBI lured to Birmingham for crime conference

The FBI is to attend a conference on cybercrime in Birmingham next week. The two-day conference has been arranged by the National Crime Squad (NCS) and will bring together representatives from 20 countries. The aim is to thrash out problems to do with electronic extortion with security forces and industry experts. ...more

Dell opts for Ubuntu Linux distro

Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the Linux distribution that it will offer pre-installed on a range of its PCs. A month ago the company announced that it would extend its Linux offering in response to feedback to its IdeaStorm website and a subsequent survey. In this, more than 70 per cent of the 100,000 respondents said that they would use the open source operating system both at home and at work. ...more

ATI begins shipping Radeon 9600 PRO chips

ATI Technologies has announced that it has started volume shipments of its new-generation Radeon 9600 PRO (RV350) graphics chips, which it launched in March. Graphics cards based on the Radeon 9600 PRO chip are aimed at the mainstream market of less than US$200, ATI said. With architecture featuring quad pixel pipes and dual vertex engines, the Radeon 9600 PRO also features support for the latest Microsoft?s DirectX 9, OpenGL feature sets, advanced anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering technologies. ...more

GeForce3: first tests

We get our hands on nVIDIA's next-generation card, the GeForce3. Over the past few years nVIDIA has been a key player in the graphics card market, and with the success of its GeForce chipsets, it's taken the market by the throat. So with the release of its next-generation card, the GeForce3, there’s a huge burden on nVIDIA to produce something special. ...more