A virtual hard drive for free

If you've ever had to e-mail yourself a file, you may be interested in the CcDrive online file storage system. It's a virtual hard drive that comes courtesy of London-based Net Tech Limited. The CcDrive is integrated transparently into a Windows-based PC such that it appears as just another drive within Windows Explorer or any other Windows app. ...more

Office 2003 gets first fix within weeks of launch

Just weeks after launching Office System to the world, the first hole gets patched. Users opening or closing Excel, Word, and PowerPoint documents that included an OfficeArt shape that had been created in earlier version of Office encountered a number of problems. The document might fail to open at all, become corrupted, open without the image, or generate an error message. ...more

IBM in the process of getting smaller

IBM is taking the plunge along with Sony and Toshiba to start development on a processor based on a sub 0.10micron process, which could bring systems more powerful than Deep Blue to the home. The companies have committed more than $400m towards the project, which aims to produce a teraflop-class consumer CPU over the next five years. ...more

Intel says no plans for NAND flash market

Intel's Taiwan office on Wednesday denied reports that the company has plans to move into the NAND flash memory market and could release new NAND flash products as early as the second half of this year. 'We have always been a NOR flash supplier. We do not have any plans for the NAND flash market,' a company official told DigiTimes. ...more

Parthus takes mobile Internet access to the max

Parthus has launched MachStream, a powerful hardware-based acceleration platform, after taking over Chicory Systems. It may not sound that exciting when put like that, but you'll appreciate it when you're browsing the Web on your 2.5G or 3G handset. ...more