Intel 4GHz Pentium chips no longer scheduled for 2004

Intel has admitted that it will miss its year-end target for Pentium 4 processors to hit the 4GHz mark. It now appears that early 2005 is the date for this desktop clocking milestone. The announcement is further bad news for the chip giant in what has been a rather rocky (although still profitable) year. ...more

Lucent sues Microsoft over Adaptive Coding

Sales of the Xbox 360 games console are under threat from a new legal challenge from the telecoms giant Lucent Technologies. The company alleges that the games console launched by Microsoft last year contains technology which infringes its patent. The alleged infringed patent is known as 'Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video' which was issued to Lucent in 1993 and covers the MPEG-2 compression built into the console Lucent has asked the court for unspecified damages and injunctive relief which could mean that the Microsoft would have to halt sales of the Xbox 360 in the United States. ...more

Number of websites charging for content falls - AOP

The Association of Online Publishers has revealed that the number of websites that charge for content has dropped, the first time the figure has fallen in the four years since the AOP began tracking the market. The fall is substantial, from 63 per cent of member sites a year ago to 37 per cent. Rising advertising revenues are behind the fall. ...more

Bowie bank backers forced into line

The US Internet bank USABancShares - the backers behind David Bowie's Web bank -has agreed to measures drawn up by the US Federal Reserve to secure its finances. The Federal Reserve has released details of the agreement with the USABancShares, stating "their common goal to restore and maintain the financial soundness" of the bank. According to Reuters, the company will not be able to pay any dividends or incur futher debt without the Reserve's approval. ...more

Intel's 65-nm Cedar Mill CPU to have power consumption of 65W

The power consumption of Intel's 65-nm single-core Cedar Mill processors is likely to be around 65W, down from the around 115W of the current Prescott CPUs, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers who have seen Intel's CPU roadmap. The Cedar Mill is scheduled to be launched in early next year. However, the power consumption of Intel's 65-nm, dual-core Presler CPU, also to be launched in the first quarter of 2005, will still be at the same level as the dual-core Smithfield CPU, at around 130W, the sources said. ...more