Eclipse shadows 8meg Net rollout

Eclipse Internet is the latest ISP to tweak its high-speed broadband offering. It is offering two different up-to-8Mbps packages designed to allow Net users to allow to choose the type of service that best suits their needs. The Evolution service combines unlimited monthly traffic with varying degrees of what the ISP describes as 'sensing and adapting to busy service conditions' designed to optimise performance during peak hours. ...more

Intel and IBM add to traffic-jam of in-car computing

You wait ages for an automotive computing system to turn up, and then three come along at once. Following on from our reports on Microsoft's Car.Net and Sun's dashboard Java, comes news of Intel's collaboration with IBM to produce an in-car client platform of their own. ...more

Red Hat feels the squeeze

The emergence of Linux has lost some of its lustre. Red Hat - a leading Linux systems vendor - has announced that it is to close three of its office and lay off some staff. The San Francisco (US), Newbury (UK) and Cagnes sur Mer (France) offices are to close and a total of 20 employees laid off. ...more

Fujitsu targets PC multimedia and television markets

Fujitsu has announced two new 22-inch TFT LCD displays, one aimed at PC multimedia work and the other at the television market. The PC multimedia version, the FLC56XWC8V (pictured), is an XGA (Extended VGA) display with a resolution of 1,280x768 and a pixel pitch of 0.375mm. ...more

Sony Ericsson launches three new phones

Sony Ericsson is launching three GSM/GPRS phones for Christmas. The Z600 is a clamshell device with changeable covers front and rear. It's a GSM/GPRS phone with Bluetooth, a 65,000 colour screen and support for Java. ...more