Sun rises on latest earning results

Sun Microsystems cheered Wall Street with its latest results that showed a profit for the fourth quarter in its financial year. Despite showing a year on year decline in revenues. Revenues for the fourth quarter were $2. ...more

BT announces latest batch of broadband upgrades

BT has named the next 83 exchanges to be be ADSL broadband enabled. The exchanges and service dates are as follows. ? 3rd September 2003: Sharnbrook. ...more

Adobe unwraps Creative Suite 3

Adobe has upgraded its flagship design software suite, which includes Photoshop and also accounts for more than half of the company's revenue. It is two years since the release of Creative Suite 2. The 13 stand-alone products and six suites in Creative Suite 3, as the upgraded software package is known, represent the fullest use of Flash technology to date. ...more

Apple planning flash ultra-portable laptop - analyst

Apple is planning to expand its use of Nand flash memory by using it as the basis for a 'subnotebook' ultra-portable computer, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu. Wu said in a note to investors that he has received more than one indication that Apple is building a lightweight laptop that will use flash, rather than a hard disk drive, as its main memory. However, its release is dependent on a fall in Nand flash prices. ...more

Europe takes step closer to criminalising piracy

The European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee has approved an EU directive that will impose criminal sanctions for copyright infringement piracy. The directive put forward by the European Commission would commit all Member States to criminalise intentional infringements on a commercial scale of any intellectual property right carried out. If approved, it could have implications for a wide range of individuals and organisations, from one person duplicating CDs for a car boot sale to Internet giants such as YouTube and MySpace that host copyright content. ...more