Tile your bathroom with Sony's graphics chips

Sony is back in the news again, this time the EETimes has the latest on a paper presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), detailing Sony's new graphics chip which boasts a footprint of 21.7 x 21.3mm. ...more

Evo, the second wave

Compaq has launched a second wave of Evo products, its computing line aimed at the business end of the market. As well as Evo Desktop PCs (the D300 and D500), there are new notebooks in the Evo range (the N200 and N600c). All the models come bundled with network management tools, such as Altiris eXpress for configuring software releases. ...more

Court orders IBM to hand over more documents for SCO to study

A court has told IBM to hand over millions of lines of code and reams of information on developers privvy to the AIX and Dynix operating systems so that Unix company SCO can study whether any of its Unix code was copied into the open source Linux platform. SCO had originally asked for details of 7,200 developers involved with IBM's AIX and IBM-owned Sequent's Dynix Unix systems. Judge Brooke Wells ordered IBM to choose some 3,000 as a representative sample. ...more

AMD goes Live!

X86 chip company AMD has announced that the first machines based on its AMD Live! media PC strategy will be available this month. The machines will be powered by the company's Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor. AMD Live!, which was announced at the beginning of the year, is the company's answer to rival Intel's VIIV media PC initiative which was introduced last year. ...more

BT previews research projects at Adastral Park [part 2]

We continue our peak at future projects under development at BT's research campus, Adastral Park. See BT previews research projects at Adastral Park [part 1] Having looked at projects involving nature-inspired computing, pervasive gaming and virtual reality systems, our next stop on the tour involved telecare systems. Specifically, the BT Exact Centre for Care in the Community. ...more