Handspring Visor wired for sound

Good Technology is to unveil its new MP3 player for the Handspring Visor at the DEMO Conference in California. The SoundsGood device connects to the PDA via the Springboard expansion slot, turning the Visor into a fully-fledged MP3 player. The device comes with 64MB of memory that allows the playback of over an hour of music. ...more

Treo continues in a colourful vein

Handspring launches its Treo 270, a colour version of its phone and PDA combo in the UK. Available in June, the new 'communicator' device combines a colour touch-screen mobile phone, wireless email, SMS text messaging and Internet access, together with a Palm OS-based organiser. All in a small, handheld package. ...more

F-Secure patches against critical flaw

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has released a patch to counter a critical flaw in its software for Windows and Linux. The company says that systems left unpatched are open to exploitation by the use of specially tweaked archive files (Zip and Rar formats) which can be used to create a buffer overflow and allow an attacker to run code remotely on the affected system. In addition, the files designed to exploit the flaw can be modified so that they are not scanned by security software potentially duping users into believing they are not at risk. ...more

French National Library head rails against Google

The President of the National Library of France is a worried man. Jean-Christmas Jeanneney,the President of the National Library of France (BNF), recently wrote an article in Le Monde alerting France and Europe to the dangers of the Google Print project. Jeanneney says that by concentrating on making overwhelmingly English-language books available through the Google Print project, the Internet's culture would be skewed towards an Anglo-Saxon cultural view of the world. ...more

IDC sees solid PC market in 2H 2002 and growth of 8 per cent in 2003

International Data Corporation (IDC) expects worldwide PC shipments to grow just over 1 per cent in 2002 and more than 8 per cent growth in 2003, based on strong public sector spending and continued improvement in the consumer market. Total shipments in 2002 are expected to reach 136.2 million, up 1. ...more