Geocaching of the Apes

This summer's top blockbuster looks to be the remake of the classic sci-fi flick, Planet of the Apes. We've already had a sneaky peek at the online trailer of the movie, but now you can grab some great monkey memorabilia in an online competition. The only problem with the Planet of the Apes competition is that it isn't going to be easy, in fact it is going to be darn well impossible if you haven't got the right bit of kit. ...more

Big Blue revenues rise despite grey power hit

Big Blue was hit by big grey yesterday as IBM released its third quarter results. The company took a one time pre-tax hit on the bottom line of some $320mn to partially settle a dispute over its pension fund. Its final third quarter income was $1. ...more

Red Hat leads Linux way for Web servers

Internet services company, Netcraft, is is reporting that Redhat has retained its commanding lead in web servers over the past six months despite a slight drop in market share. The report says that while RedHat ran on 1.47 million active sites in July with a 49. ...more

PC Pro tests the brand new ATi graphics chips

ATi has announced the RADEON 9800, 9600 and 9200 chips, with the former two supporting the latest versions of the DirectX and OpenGL graphics standards. The top drawer chip is the 9800, upon which the likes of Hercules is basing its 3D Prophet 9800 Pro card. It boasts a 256-bit DDR memory interface and 8-pixel pipeline engine, along with programmable shader engines, full-speed full floating point precision and advanced filtering technologies (Anisotropic Filtering up to X16 and Full Scene Anti-Aliasing up to 6x). ...more

Yamaha burns at light speed

Yamaha has put forward its super-burning CD-RW offering in the form of the LightSpeed CRW2200 Series. Like the Iomega announced yesterday, it features impressive specs: 40-speed read, an 'industry first' 20-speed write and ten-speed rewrite performance. The drive also features Partial Constant Angular Velocity (P-CAV) technology, which keeps the disc spinning at a constant speed while adjusting the data transfer rate in rewriting mode. ...more