Gossip on the Web

UK broadband users can now enjoy cheap phone calls over the Internet with a new service launched called Gossiptel. The service works for both cable and ADSL users and can be accessed simply by plugging a headse into your PC, or your standard headset into an adaptor. Gossiptel connects to other Internet telephony users that use the SIP (Session Internet Protocol) for free and to standard 'fixed line' PSTN phones at rates starting from 2. ...more

Pioneer unveils third generation drive

Leading DVD manufacturer Pioneer New Media Technologies got the chance to show off its brand new combination recordable DVD/CD drive at Comdex. The unit is for PC use and can read and write in four formats including DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW. The drive works at a storage capacity of 4. ...more

Intel to terminate 'Tejas' Pentium design

Intel is set to announce that it is to stop development of the 'Tejas' version of the Pentium 4 architecture. The Tejas architecture was slated to replace the Prescott models towards the end of this year. Also set for the bin is the similar Xeon processor known as 'Jayhawk'. ...more

Laptop drives to top 100GB

Laptop hard drive capacities will each 100GB later this year, following Toshiba's announcement that it plans to start production next month. The company has used a new thin-film process to increase the amount of data stored on each square inch of disk space. Coupled by improved read/write head technology, this increases the overall capacity of the largest 2. ...more

Yahoo! tackles spam with DomainKeys

After a year or so of debate Yahoo! has finally decided to tackling the problems of spam and phishing by pressing ahead with the DomainKeys on its Yahoo! Mail. The DomainKeys technology developed by Yahoo! on the principle of encryption of authentication between mail servers. Owners of mail servers transmit 'public' and 'private' key that identifies them. ...more