iPod Mini achieves 'room-sized sound' with speaker system

The company that makes portable speakers for the iPod has gone one better, or is that smaller, and unveiled iMmini, the 'complete speaker system' for the iPod mini. Altec Lansing's 178x111x25mm unit features two 25mm and two 18mm neodymium micro drivers encased behind perforated aluminum grilles and an onboard 4-watt Class D digital amplifier with MaxxBass technology powered for up to 24 hours by four AA batteries. The iPod mini slots into the unit's dock and is recharged as it plays through the speakers. ...more

Nikon kicks off a Coolpix summer

Nikon has announced three new digital cameras aimed at semi-pros and consumers and hopes to have them in the shops in time for the summer holidays. The high-end Coolpix 5700 has a mammoth five megapixel CCD. This can generate 2560x1920 pixel images capable of producing prints larger than A3. ...more

Sendmail unveils enterprise anti-spam protection

Enterprise email specialists Sendmail has begun shipping its Sendmail Advanced Anti-Spam Filter software for Linux- and Solaris-based Internet gateways. The Advanced Anti-Spam Filter has been 'trained' with 'tens of thousands' of messages to identify spam accurately, and analyses the entire message, including headers, subject line, body text and 200 attachment types. System administrators can then apply their own specific email policy configurations to the Filter, which can be customised for each individual email user within the enterprise by creating custom rules based on its linguistic full text analysis engine. ...more

iPods get Wi-Fi via PocketPC

Those iPod users with a Heath-Robinson mindset, and who happen to have a Pocket PC with USB host capability to hand, can now add Wi-Fi to their armoury using the Pocketster utility. Pocketster is an application that allows your Pocket PC to connect to other Pocket PCs in the vicinity and swap and stream music files from one to the other. The people behind the utility have now found a way to lash an iPod to the Pocket PC. ...more

Mac users get Spring date for Office 2007 compatibility

A Mac converter for the new file formats in Microsoft Office 2007 will not be available until Spring 2007, the company's Mac Business Unit has confirmed. Office 2007, released last week to business users, uses Microsoft's new Open XML to save documents by default. However the resulting Word . ...more