Sony takes Tiny USB storage to 4GB

Sony has boosted the capacity of its Tiny range of USB storage. Its Recording Media & Energy division has announced the launch of a 4GB MICRO VAULT Tiny. The 4GB model has an RRP of ?44. ...more

Microsoft takes note of OneNote changes

One of the more interesting features of Office 2003 was the new OneNote application, for organising multiple documents as notes. Well, Microsoft has released a preview of OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The full Service Pack, note, is not due to appear until later in the summer, in the wake of the Microsoft Office System SP1. ...more

RIM wins US Patent Office battle

Research In Motion, the company behind the popular Blackberry wireless email handheld is breathing a sigh of relief. The company has announced that the US Patent Office has issued 'non-final actions' against two of the patents held by technology company NTP. In effect they are held to be invalid This leaves RIM facing only one issue of patent infringement as now seven of the eight original patents on which the NTP case was based have now been declared invalid. ...more

Toshiba spins 100GB 1.8in hard disk drive

Toshiba has donned the laurels, proclaiming itself the first to bring out a 100GB 1.8in hard disk drive. Brandishing the snappy appellation MK1011GAH, the disk uses two platters and has seek times rated around 15ms. ...more

Apple's Intel-based Macs to include Rosetta technology

Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform Apple's new Intel-based Macs will include a technology called Rosetta, which will enable them to run PowerPC applications on the Intel processors. Named after the Rosetta Stone, this will be the key element in ensuring as seamless a transition as possible. Unlike Classic - Apple's technology for running OS 9-compatible applications in OS X - Rosetta will be transparent to the user, although applications which rely upon it will not run as efficiently as they would if compiled for the new Intel platform. ...more