BlueCore backing for Bluetooth

One of the most influential Bluetooth companies, Cambridge Silicon Radio, gave the under-fire wireless standard a boost today, by announcing a new product that promises to attract even more phone manufacturers to the market. The product itself is called the BlueCore2-ROM. It's a single-chip Bluetooth solution that will add the wireless standard to phones. ...more

Sony to launch 'world's first 4K resolution' projector

Sony describes its SRX-R110 high-end projector as 'the world's first 4K resolution projector' (4096 x 2160). Based on its own SXRD (Silicon Crystal Reflective Display) panel technology, the projector is designed for scenarios requiring 'ultra-high resolution' and wide colour gamut projectors, for example digital cinema, post-production and stage events. Meeting the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) System Specification standards, it provides a contrast ratio of 2000:1 and a brightness of 10,000 ANSI lumens. ...more

SCO's move to court with Novell could spell end game

A new paper from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) suggests that SCO's move to take on Novell in court over ownership of Unix throws that question into doubt and gives potential licencees for SCO's Unix IP licence every reason to wait out the case rather than succumb to SCO's threatening letters. The new paper - the third from the OSDL's Eben Moglen, who is the General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation - says that this could turn out to be the end game for SCO. Moglen writes that SCO 'has given the targets of its licensing campaign the clearest possible reason for remaining on the sidelines, and by doing so it has triggered the forces that are going to bring this nuisance to an end. ...more

Battle lines drawn for the mobile worker

Microsoft and AT&T Wireless have announced a software suite enabling wireless access to corporate services via phone, PDA and laptop. AT&T Wireless Workware will offer secure wireless access to personal and company data, such as email, from outside the company firewall via GSM (and GPRS-enabled) cellular and local area networks. And using, of course, Microsoft products such as Pocket PC and Mobile Information Server 2002. ...more

AOL joins broadband ranks

AOL joins competitive Broadband Britain as the problems of Telewest and NTL worsen. AOL has launched a broadband service in the UK with a monthly rate of ?34.99 but free of any installation or activation charge. ...more