New colour Bubblejet printers from Canon

Three new colour Bubblejet printers are in town, courtesy of Canon. The S6300, S630 and S500 are aimed at the specialist/business, business and home/office markets respectively. The former can handle paper sizes up to A3, and both the S6300 and S630 can handle A4 paper at a rate of 17ppm in mono and 12ppm in colour. ...more

LG unveils multi-format players

LG Electronics has announced a new portable music player that is compatible with a number of popular digital music formats. The new device can play tracks that have been encoded in Advanced Music Coding (AAC), Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3. AAC is an emerging format first proposed by the MPEG group in 1997, which offers a compression rate 30 per cent higher than MP3. ...more

INTERVIEW: SuSE's Schl?ger tells the 64bit Linux story

With SuSE's 64bit Linux OS out the door sharply on the heels of AMD's Athlon 64, Chris Schl?ger, Director of Distribution Development, gives us the low-down on why the 64bit SuSE Linux 9.0 Desktop operating system is the only choice for making the 64bit leap. Also on hand to offer their wisdom were Malcolm Yates, SuSE's Strategic Alliance man, and Marketing Director Jasmin Ul-Haque. ...more

Yahoo! named as host for the next FIFA World Cups

Korea and Japan are jointly hosting the next football World Cup in 2002, but Yahoo! will be hosting the official Web site for the event. www.fifaworldcup. ...more

VeriSign subject to further legal attacks

VeriSign's 'Domain Name Expiration Notice' marketing campaign is filling up its wardrobe with law suits for every occasion. The latest suit on the hanger is courtesy of Go Daddy Software, the sixth largest domain name registrar, who objected to the campaign and has filed a suit alleging VeriSign tricked its customers into transferring domains to VeriSign and paying $29 per domain, as opposed to $8.95 charged by Go Daddy. ...more