Palm cuts workforce by 19 per cent

Palm has confirmed that 19 per cent of its total workforce has been laid off in the previous three months. Its workforce has been reduced to a total of 900 employees. To be precise, both the hardware division, Palm Solutions Group, and the software-oriented PalmSource group have been affected. ...more

Carphone Warehouse admits TalkTalk broadband delay

Carphone Warehouse has conceded that thousands of people who signed up for its 'free' TalkTalk broadband service will not be connected until August. Some 340,000 have subscribed to the service, which bundles broadband with a landline call service costing ?20.99 per month, since its launch in April. ...more

Bluetooth 2.1 simplifies pairing and cuts power consumption

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has finalised the specification for version 2.1 of the wireless communications standard and announced that it will now be released to device and software makers. Bluetooth 2. ...more

Panasonic's IT oven

If you're one of those types that spends their lives in front of a screen, breaking the monotony only to heat up a ready meal in the microwave before returning to your Excel worksheet, then Panasonic has just launched a life-changing product. The NE-SD10 microwave oven combo has a 3.8in colour LCD screen all of its own, with an SD-card slot to boot so you can store 8Mb worth of recipes. ...more

Broadband Britain arrives - official

The inexorable march of Broadband Britain continues. In the latest official figures for the end of 2005, the National Statistics Office found that nearly two thirds of Internet connections are now broadband while dial-up continues its slow decline. The NSO found that throughout 2005 broadband connections continued to rise and increase their market share. ...more