AMD issues second profit warning

AMD has warned of lower sales, again. It's the company's second profit warning within a month - the sales forecast has been revised further downwards. The microprocessor company yesterday issued a formal statement anticipating sales of $600 for its second financial quarter, ending June 30, 2002. ...more

Mobilexpo 2001 highlight - Siemens wows crowds with SX45

The most impressive device at the Mobilexpo 2001 show was a combination mobile phone and PDA from electronics specialists Siemens. The SX45 is based on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system, is Java compatible and will be able to access the GPRS phone network. The device offers Internet access, allowing the transmission and reception of e-mail on the move and has fax functionality. ...more

China fines Yahoo! over unlicensed music sites

A Beijing court has ordered Yahoo! China to delete links to free websites offering music-downloads and to pay about 200,000 yuan (?12,922) for facilitating distribution of unlicensed songs by other sites, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. But in the ruling published on a Chinese website linked to the Court, Beijing's No. 2 Intermediate Court said Yahoo! China should bear some responsibility for the copyright infringement, although the music was downloaded from servers of third-party websites. ...more

DART takes aim at interoperability everywhere

Billed as 'Interoperability Done Right', DART software exposes all the software, hardware and content resources of DART-enabled devices, so that they can be shared and used irrespective of compatibility requirements. Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conference, where the technology was announced recently, said: 'DART software provides peer-to-peer content access and distribution by effectively turning all devices into one virtual device.' The barriers of mismatched protocols, application versions and file formats are the key hurdles to the success of the networked home according to research firm Ovum. ...more

Palm becomes palmOne

Palm, the world's leading PDA maker, is to take a new name. It will be renaming itself palmOne when it finally spins off its Palm OS operating system business as PalmSource later this year. palmOne will comprise the company's three hardware lines - Zire, Tungsten and, when the acquisition of Handspring is completed, Treo - and its software business. ...more