3 grabs new Nokia 7600 to bolster 3G roster

Mobile telco 3 is to start selling the Nokia 7600 through its 3200 UK outlets Looking more like a PDA than a phone, the Nokia 7600 is the company's first foray into 3G devices. It allows users to capture and send pictures and videos, send and receive multimedia messages, mobile email and listen to music. 3 says the device supports the company's range of video mobile services including ITN news bulletins, movie highlights, music videos and Champions League in 64k colours. ...more

HipZip firmware upgraded

Iomega has released a firmware upgrade for its HipZip portable music player. The upgrade includes: improved sound quality at lower bit rates; the ability to play a track by highlighting it in the Playlist Manager; saved playlist order changes when a disk is ejected; MP3 and WMA bookmarking, allowing you to return to where you left; support for low bit-rate (16Kbps) WMA files; scan mode plays the first 10 seconds of each track; and a return to the last-track-played when the player is switched on. A list of further enhancements and installation download and instructions are on the Iomega website. ...more

Website author sues estate of James Joyce

An American academic is suing the estate of Nobel Prize-winning author James Joyce for the right to quote his works on her website. Backed by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Fair Use Project, Carol Shloss, acting English professor at Stanford University, is asking the court to rule that she is entitled to quote Joyce's writings under laws that permit the use of copyrighted work where it is done in 'a scholarly transformative manner'. Joyce's estate, which is managed by his grandson, Stephen James Joyce, has refused to let Schloss quote from the Irishman's published works, manuscripts and private letters. ...more

Doubts flare over delivery of Apple's new iPods

Conflicting reports have emerged about the availability of Apple's new iPod shuffle, originally scheduled to begin shipping this month. The online Apple Store still states that the compact music player will ship this month, but according to Think Secret, employees at the company's retail stores have been told that the first devices will not be available until the middle of next month, while Amazon has changed its shipping date to 25 November. However there have been reports that some customers have been notified by Apple that their shuffles will be delivered next week. ...more

Microsoft to add Data Protection Server to Windows Server family

Microsoft has announced that it is to add a Data Protection Server to its Windows Server System. The product, which the company has slated to launch in the second half of 2005, is the company's first entry into the disk-based backup and recovery market The product is designed to operate with Server 2003, Windows Storage Server 2003 and Active Directory and is aimed at companies with between five and 49 servers to manage. Once up and running, Microsoft's disk-based solution will monitor each server that logs all changes made to a disk. ...more