New colour Bubblejet printers from Canon

Three new colour Bubblejet printers are in town, courtesy of Canon. The S6300, S630 and S500 are aimed at the specialist/business, business and home/office markets respectively. The former can handle paper sizes up to A3, and both the S6300 and S630 can handle A4 paper at a rate of 17ppm in mono and 12ppm in colour. ...more

And also today (13-June-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. WAP is old hat Forget WAP, that's old hat it seems. The GSM Association, apparently speaking on behalf of the major mobile phone makers and operators, has announced the Mobile Services Initiative (M-Services). ...more

Adobe announces Premiere Pro

Adobe has upgraded and renamed Premiere, its video editing application now tagged Premiere Pro. The software has been redesigned with powerful, productivity enhancing features and advanced professional tools including sophisticated colour correction, powerful new audio controls and multiple, nested timelines. It has also been optimised for multiple processors and hyper-threading to take advantage of the latest generation of Intel Pentium-based systems running Windows XP. ...more

Samsung samples 8GB high-density moviNAND memory

Samsung has announced that it is shipping samples of its eight gigabyte high-density moviNAND memory to the major handset manufacturers. The technology will help satisfy the data demands of increasingly powerful mobile devices, such as music phones and navigation systems. It describes the new memory chips as the highest density embedded flash memory developed to date. ...more

Nokia claims patent dispute hampers 3G uptake

Nokia's ongoing patent battle with Qualcomm may work against the uptake of 'third-generation' mobile technology, believes the mobile phone giant. Nokia is putting its focus for 3G mobile phones on higher-end models, chief technology officer Tero Ojanpera said, despite moves by smaller rivals to lower device costs for the high-speed wireless service. The company, which makes more than one in three of the mobile phones sold globally, is mired in a legal dispute over patents with US mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm after part of a major cross-licensing agreement expired last month. ...more