Casio to sell cheap PDA

Famous for its Cassiopeia range of PDAs, Casio has announced that its latest handheld computer will be a low-priced budget model. The Cassiopeia BE-300 will feature a colour LCD screen but will also sport a street price of less than $300 (around ?210). The new PDA will come with 16Mb of memory and rely on a 166Mhz VR4131 processor. ...more

Comment: PowerPC remains key to the gigahertz Mac

The likelihood of a Power Mac clocking one gigahertz in the near future remains low, despite reports this week that Motorola, the G4 PowerPC chip manufacturer, has successfully produced such chips running at 1.2GHz. Unfortunately, large numbers of these chips are not performing at this level and this reflects ongoing problems that Motorola has with its manufacturing facilities. ...more

Tax office lambasts BlackBerry tax rumours

HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) has hit back at media reports suggesting that mobile device fans could be heading towards bigger tax bills, branding them 'complete garbage and nonsense'. News stories surfaced suggesting that BlackBerry and personal digital assistant (PDA) users who send too many non-work emails could be hit financially by the tax man. But HMRC has hit back at the assumptions, claiming the reports contain a number of inaccuracies. ...more

Apple ushers in era of free phone calls with iChat and iSight

Apple has announced the next version of its iChat instant messaging support, and at a stroke has provided OS X users with the ability to make free voice and video calls any where in the world for the price of an Internet connection. Combine iChat AV with iSight - Apple's new video camera - or any other FireWire enabled video cam and Mac users with a broadband connection can hold video conferences with any other Mac OS X user anywhere in the world. Although video conferencing is not possible over a dial-up connection, you can still use iChat AV for audio conferencing, effectively giving you free phone calls. ...more

Apple releases AirPort update

Apple has released an update to its software for Macs connected to AirPort wireless networks. This maintenance update follows the firmware update released earlier this week, and recommended for all customers with French AirPort Extreme base stations or if your AirPort Extreme base station stops responding after being on a busy Ethernet Network. AirPort 3. ...more