ATI debuts Radeon X1800 range

Graphics chip specialist ATI has come up with a new range of GPUs aimed at the notebook market. The company is claiming that the new chips will offer notebook users blinding performance on their machines. The company has announced two new chips known as the Mobility Radeon X1800 and Mobility Radeon X1800 XT mobile GPU based on the same R520 core as the desktop version of the X1800. ...more

Mozilla claims top spot in Mac JavaScript tests

Apple has published the results of a set of JavaScript tests on the six 'major Mac browsers'. The tests, which will be of interest to anyone developing Web sites, were run on Internet Explorer 5.2, iCab Preview 2. ...more

iTunes Music Store passes 250 million downloads

Downloads from the iTunes Music Store have passed 250 million, with the daily rate reaching 1.25 million songs. 'When we launched the iTunes Music Store we were hoping to sell a million songs in the first six months - now we're selling over a million songs every day, and we've sold over a quarter billion songs in total,' said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. ...more

Davey Winder scoops security journalism award

Well done to our very own Davey Winder who has just scooped the award of 'IT security journalist of the year'. The inaugural BT IT Security Journalism Awards 2006 were held yesterday, and Davey Winder was cited with impressing the judges with 'the breadth and consistency of his coverage and his clear, well written articles'. Journalists Bill Goodwin and Pete Warren were runners-up. ...more

Salad days for Salmon Days

Another step towards paid-for content from an online publisher. From today, the irreverent IT site The Register is to charge for viewing of a new video strip feature called Salmon Days. This "live action" drama is based on its Bastard Operator from Hell character and its brief is to be "amusing, ironic, edgy and to take an educated swipe at the IT industry, its products and the clones it has spawned". ...more