Crammond's Grand Prix 4 roars onto the scene

The next instalment of the definitive Formula 1 racing series is heading to PC and Xbox in the summer. Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix series is widely regarded as the best Formula 1 franchise around, and Infogrames has just announced that the fourth and next instalment will be appearing on both PC and Xbox in June 2002. Always a favourite of Formula 1 fans that have PCs to hand, the arrival of Grand Prix 4 to Microsoft's console as well means that it should reach a massive global audience - in total the previous three games have sold a whopping two million units worldwide. ...more

Talking the language of Office XP

IBM has updated its voice recognition software, with Office XP in mind, and in ear. ViaVoice for Windows, Release 9, is IBM's desktop dictation program that now has support for Office XP. It comes in four editions - Pro USB, Advanced, Standard and Personal - and features US English. ...more

Intel warns of lowered revenues

Chip giant Intel caused a stir on Wall Street on Friday when it warned that its first quarter revenues were going to be below forecasts. Previously the company had told investors that it expected revenues of between $9.1 billion and $9. ...more

SCO hits reversal in Unix licence case with DaimlerChrysler

US car giant DaimlerChrysler has all but won its case defending a suit from SCO surrounding its use of Unix. In a hearing yesterday in an Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan, Judge Rae Lee Chabot upheld most of DaimlerChrysler's arguments to dismiss the case, with the exception that SCO remained free to pursue the company over why it had failed to meet a deadline for auditing whether its use of Unix complied with its licence. SCO said it 'is satisfied with the outcome of this litigation now that DaimlerChrysler has certified its compliance. ...more

AMD goes native with quad-core demo

AMD has demonstrated its 'Barcelona' native quad-core x86 server processor at its annual AMD Industry Analyst Forum. The company recently unveiled the dual-CPU Quad FX platform, which comprises a pair of dual-core FX-70 parts and is AMD's response to the Intel Core 2 QX6700 Extreme CPUs, which have four cores per part. Intel's offering in the server and workstation category is the new Xeon 5300 series. ...more