AOL closes deal to put Flat Rate in every high street

AOL UK has teamed up with European retail group Kingfisher to distribute co-branded software for AOL's unmetered access package Flat Rate. The software will be made available in Kingfisher's 2,000 Comet, B&Q, Woolworths and Superdrug stores throughout the UK. In return, Kingfisher will get B&Q's range of home and garden goods promoted on AOL's online shopping sites, which include Netscape Online and CompuServe. ...more

ATI Radeon 9800XT powers new Creative Christmas cards

ATI's Radeon GPU (graphics processing unit) features in three new graphics cards from Creative. The Creative Radeon 9800XT, at the highest end of the range, is for the ultra-mega-super gamer, while the Creative Radeon 9600 is aimed at the merely serious gamer. That leaves the Radeon 9200SE, for users who want 'performance and value' as Creative puts it. ...more

Mobile phone turns web server

Researchers at Nokia have successfully installed and run a Web server on a mobile phone. Johan Wikman and Ferenc Dosa began the project after realising the modern mobile phones have processing power equivalent to or even greater than that on the earliest Web servers and that there is no reason why people could not create and maintain their own personal mobile websites. Rather than write the server from scratch, Wikman and Dosa exploited the fact that the phone's Symbian OS has a 'Posix' layer that provides, in their words, 'a fair amount of typical Unix functionality'. ...more

Navman takes GPS mainstream

As GPS devices strike ever farther into the mainstream, Navman has launched the F20 for ?179 inc VAT. With a 3.5in touch-sensitive colour screen and incorporating an SiRF Star III GPS receiver, the F20 features postcode search and a Back on Track function so that, should you make a wrong turn, you'll still have the quickest route to your destination. ...more

Firefox previews new features for version 1

The Mozilla Organisation has unleashed the preview release of Firefox 1.0, with three new features since version 0.9. ...more