Palm pushes new Treo to Europe

Palm is to bring a new Treo to Europe on the Vodafone network and running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0. The big selling point, claims Palm, is push email. ...more

Amazon goes into the groceries business

Online retailer Amazon, which has already cornered the market in online books and a wide range of other goods ranging from consumer electronics to kitchen appliances and garden furniture, is going into the dried goods business in the US. The company has started to offer a range of 10,000 non-perishable groceries such as pasta, tinned food, breakfast food and sauces. It is also stocking a range of bathroom goods such as razor blades, shampoos and over the counter medicines. ...more

Visual Studio .Net gets LiveSource support

Programming support that has been available for Java will now be available for Microsoft's .Net Framework. Improved design and modelling support is the promise of the 'Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio . ...more

AOL Broadband to sell on high street

People wishing to sign up to AOL's broadband offering can now get it through their local Carphone Warehouse or Comet. Available through all the Comet stores and selected Carphone Warehouse outlets, you can buy the ISP's "Easy-Install modem pack" for ?85 and save yourself the cost of the p&p which normally adds ?10. Customers will also need to sign a 12-month contract with AOL broadband at ?27. ...more

Formac forges two new hard disk drive ranges

Formac has taken an elemental approach to its two new hard disk drive ranges, the FireWire 400 Disk Oxygen and FireWire 800 Disk XTR Platinum. Available in four capacities - 160, 250, 320 and 500GB - their names reflect the design of the stackable casings, Oxygen being white and Platinum being silver. The two larger capacities are also RAID compatible. ...more