Yahoo! Travel expands to include tourists' own experiences

Yahoo! is expanding its Yahoo! Travel service to introduce additional information from other tourists to help users plan their trips. Instead of simply a service offering flights and hotel bookings, the Internet portal hopes to draw in the experience of other travellers. The additional features of Yahoo! Travel are nothing new and are mostly repurposed tools from other parts of the sprawling Yahoo! empire. ...more

Blair's dream of Internet access for all

On Monday Tony Blair will launch his Government's pre-election Internet initiative. The UK Online campaign will be launched before a business audience and will detail how the Government will deliver its promise to deliver Internet access for all by the year 2005. The Government recently brought this target forward from its initial date of 2008. ...more

Many lights make hands work

A new keyboard made from projected light has been developed for use with mobile devices such as PDAs and laptops. The technology has three components. The Pattern Projector projects a standard or customised keyboard layout from the portable device onto a flat surface. ...more

Nokia, Oracle and IBM line up against Microsoft

A coalition of IT giants has renewed support for EU's antitrust battle with Microsoft, reports Reuters. The European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) has asked the EU court in which Microsoft's appeal is being heard that it be allowed to support the European Commission's (EC) case. ECIS is backed by Nokia, Oracle and IBM, as well as Red Hat and RealNetworks. ...more

NVIDIA's miserly approach to graphics

Laptops get 3D boost and battery life is increased NVIDIA has developed a "radical new mobile technology", designed to provide 2D and 3D graphics to power-starved laptop PCs, without running the batteries down. The power management system is called PowerMizer, and Nvidia claims that it can reduce power consumption by more than four watts. PowerMizer is a combination of a software interface and hardware functions that are already built into the GeForce2 Go mobile chips. ...more