Motherboards now available via VIA

Chipset manufacturer VIA Technologies is to introduce own-branded Pentium 4-compatible motherboards. Initially the boards will sport the controversial P4X266 chipset, which supports Intel's Pentium 4 processor and DDR RAM, but the new VIA Platform Solutions Division will later produce boards for Web-pad and set top box-style computers. Other standard sized PC boards will also be launched. ...more

ASUS SK8N Motherboard for 64-bit AMD Opteron Processor now shipping

Motherboard specialist ASUS Computer has started delivering its new SK8N motherboard. Optimised for the new 64-bit AMD Opteron processor the new board also features the Nvidia nForce3 Pro 150 platform processor. The Nvidia chip provides compatible networking optimisation for Nvidia Quadro-based graphics. ...more

Google.com switches UK users to .co.uk

British visitors to Google.com are being automatically redirected to Google UK. From there, if you really, really want Google. ...more

Exclusive video: Flybook's revolutionary laptop design

Dialogue is a company best known for its ultraportables, such as the tiny Flybook V which makes other ultraportables look comparatively massive. And Dialogue is at the innovation game once more with its new ultraportable, the Flybook VM. At first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a run-of-the-mill 1. ...more

China joins international spam fight

China has joined the international effort to combat spam.Reckoned to be the world's third largest producer of spam email, it has signed up to the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration. China will create the Union Network Beijing body as its representative under the London Action Plan and will endeavour to support international co-operation in the war against spam. ...more