HP's wider notebook aims at the desktop nervous

HP will introduce a wide-screen consumer notebook aimed at those that still fear bringing home a desktop PC. Although you can put it away once you've finished using it, it's smooth styling is easy on the eye. A 17in TFT screen means there's plenty of room on the other side of the hinge for a full-size keyboard and numerical pad. ...more

Macromedia extends Dreamweaver studio

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Intel preps Grantsdale for launch

Next week sees the official release of 'Grantsdale' - the codename for the Intel 915 chipset - but details of Intel's third-generation desktop graphics core have already been widely leaked. The chipset is designed to provide better video and audio support for entertainment-focused PCs With support for the latest graphics standards, such as DirectX9 and Open GL 1.4, and incorporation of 3D support, the chipset relies on the higher-bar of desktop processing power provided by such as the Prescott P4. ...more

Music industry opens new front against Kazaa in Australia

The music industry has taken its battle with peer to peer networking down under. The Australian subsidiaries of the major record labels, including Universal, EMI, Sony BMG, Warner and 25 others are suing Sharman Networks, the producers of the Kazaa file sharing software. The music industry is bringing a whole battery of charges against Sharman. ...more

The joy of text, II

The popularity of SMS text messaging continues to increase, so much that one company has compiled a list of common abbreviations used by text users. Have you BTDT (been there, done that) or perhaps you are LCW (loud, confident and wrong)? These are some of the abbreviations put together for the latest edition of the Hutchinson Almanac. The list covers 46 of the most used expressions and also features popular emoticons, the symbols used by netheads and computer geeks everywhere :-) This follows the report from Xtremetxt. ...more