Intel and AMD spotlight embedded offerings

The Embedded Systems Conference being held in San Jose, California, has brought out rival offerings from Intel and AMD. Intel has used the event to launch two quad-core chips for embedded applications, as part of a new Quad-Core Xeon 5300 series of processors. Based on 65nm process technology, the E5335 runs at 2. ...more

Internet shopping boom underway, claims Visa

Online shopping has more than doubled in the past year, according to credit card giant Visa. The company said online sales for the first quarter of 2004 rose 123 per cent, and that sequentially each quarter is now showing a doubling on the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Visa says holders of its card spent ?2. ...more

Apple denies OS X 'virus' threat

Apple has strongly denied that the 'virus' known as Opener, or Renepo, is a virus at all. In a statement the company insisted, 'Opener is not a virus, Trojan horse, or worm. It does not propagate itself across a network, through email, or over the Web. ...more

Apple updates firmware for Boot Camp

Apple has released firmware updates for all three of its Intel Macs: the MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac mini. The firmware updates enable the machines to run the public beta of Boot Camp, Apple's new software for running Windows XP on a Mac. The updates are available from www. ...more

Pen talks to lid

Following on from Kodak's mc3 player, Demo 2001 has also played host to the unveiling of n-scribe's digital pen. As most people still find taking notes with a pen more intuitive than typing, the digital pen attempts to bridge that gap. The pen transmits positional data to its lid via infrared, allowing users to store their writing in the 1Mb of memory as a graphics file. ...more