AMD cuts the lead from its chips

AMD is cutting the amount of lead in its microprocessors. The move comes ahead of the section of the European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive that restricts the amount of heavy metals used in electronic components due to come into effect in July 2006. As part of it compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation, AMD now offers RoHS-compliant products across its whole range of processors including the Opteron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology and Sempron families of processors. ...more

100 years of British Life on view, online

1901 census hits the Web - but Scots will have to wait. The Public Record Office has published the 1901 census for England and Wales on its Web site. Family historians now have a very desirable resource available for tracing roots and gathering an idea of how people (including those they are related to) lived in Edwardian times. ...more

Google Books turns a new page at Princeton University

Google has signed up another venerable institution, Princeton University in the States, to share the content of its libraries with Google Book Search. Google's controversial plan, to digitise and archive for search purposes all the world's books and historical documents, has advanced a stage further with another Ivy League recruit. It had originally co-opted four university libraries at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Michigan, and these were followed more recently by the University of California, the University Complutense of Madrid and the National Library of Catalonia among others. ...more

.Net Best Awards 2001

One for competitive programmers. Microsoft is funding a worldwide competition - to the tune of $400,000 - and inviting UK developers to enter the .NET Best Awards 2001. ...more

Logitech presses the right keys

Peripherals manufacturer Logitech revealed its upcoming range of products at a press event this morning. The main event seemed to be keyboards, with low profile, flat (rather than the tiered key set up) units. In addition to the Internet shortcut keys offering such niceties as one touch access to email and your favourite shares, shopping sites and the like, are two new 'zones'. ...more