Orders taken for FireWire SuperDrives

Online retailer 4DVD is taking pre-orders for a FireWire version of Pioneer's SuperDrive, the combined rewritable CD and recordable DVD drive recently unveiled in the 733MHz Power Mac G4s. In conjunction with Apple's DVD Studio Pro software the drive can write DVDs that can be played in most domestic DVD players. It also acts as a standard DVD recorder (writing up to 4. ...more

Intel turns laptop bags into fashion handbags

When it comes to logos and prominent labels, Intel and the world of fashion have a lot in common. This has now been extended to the realm of laptop bags. Fashion designer Julien Macdonald, of Givenchy, has been commissioned to create what Intel describes as a 'luxury handbag for the 21st Century'. ...more

BT starts legal action defending its hyperlink patent

BT has taken US ISP Prodigy Communications to court in an attempt to recover licence fees over the use of hyperlinks. BT hopes to force all ISPs that use hyperlinks to pay the telco a licence fee. This move is believed to be the first of many, as the company contacted 16 ISPs, including America Online, back in June with a request for licence fees and hired intellectual property licencing firm QED. ...more

IDF, Fall 2004: Intel eyes all-day battery life

All-day battery life by 2010 is the new Intel target according to Anand Chandrasekher (pictured), General Manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group. The commitment sometimes varied to 'eight hours of battery life by 2010' but the principle was the same: 'longer battery life is the new frontier'. Intel is moving power management even further up the priority list for mobile computing. ...more

Bill Gates rates business blogging

Bill Gates rates blogging as the perfect medium between the impositions of email and the distance of a website. In a speech to CEOs at Microsoft's CEO Summit, Redmond's Chief Software Architect detailed how blogging - essentially an online diary - solves the problem of either relying on your audience to check your website for new content proactively or relying on intrusive emails where you decide who would like to know about the new content. Using an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed, anyone interested in knowing when there is new content on a blog gets alerted and can decide whether or not to view it. ...more