Intel, ATI adopt Apple standards

Intel and ATI today jointly announced their support for IEEE 1394, better known as FireWire, as the standard for 'multimedia device connection to the personal computer'. Intel's decision to embrace 1394 comes as something of a surprise, as it is a mainstay of USB. Though USB - at 12Mb/sec - is too slow to match FireWire's 400Mb/sec for the moving of high-bandwidth data such as video, USB 2. ...more

Date set for HP and Compaq votes

Merge while the going's good. Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will hold a special meeting for shareholders to vote on the Compaq takeover on 19 March. Current shareowners, as at close of business 28 January 2002, will be entitled to vote. ...more

Samsung unveils world's first 60nm 8GB Flash device

Samsung Electronics says it has developed the industry's first 60nm, 8GB NAND Flash memory device aimed at the booming market for storage media for portable consumer electronic devices. The company says that the 8GB NAND flash memory will allow designs of up to 16GB of storage on a single memory card which could store 16 hours of DVD quality video or 4,000 MP3 audio files. The company says that the 60nm process technology used is around 30 per cent smaller than the recent 70nm 4GB NAND Flash memory. ...more

eBay gives sellers their own shop fronts

eBay is looking to boost the numbers of stores on its site with a new service that allows sellers to open customised shop fronts. ProStores is available to small businesses and existing Power Sellers, giving them the opportunity to set up a shop front with their own branding, categories and web address, powered with eBay's shopping cart, secure checkout and shipping. The basic service costs $6. ...more

Google buys YouTube

As predicted, the search engine Google has acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in shares. Google says it will continue to keep YouTube going as a standalone unit. ...more