Record domestic PC shipments in Japan

A Japanese technology association has reported that domestic PC shipments reached record levels in the last half-year of April to September. This is despite more sluggish consumer spending in Japan as a whole. The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said 5. ...more

Previewed: next generation mobile processor

This week Intel unveiled details of a mobile chip that will provide mobile phones and wireless Internet devices with enough power to run video conferencing and browse the Web comfortably. Intel claims that the fast chip will increase mobile Internet speeds by a factor of four. The flash memory chips, which retain data even when switched off, run off 1. ...more

Adobe sets February date for Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Systems has announced that Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 is expected to ship in the US and Canada mid-February 2007. Photoshop Lightroom is a digital photography studio that lets photographers import, manage and present large volumes of images. ...more

IBM commits to the Mac platform

IBM has announced plans to provide an OS X version of its latest Notes software and has committed to supporting the new Intel Macs, reports InformationWeek. As part of its acknowledged strategy of establishing a non-Windows bridgehead in the enterprise market, IBM will provide a Mac version of Notes 7, despite the fact that Macs are in a tiny minority when it comes to business usage. IBM declined to comment, although Ken Bisconti, IBM's vice president of Workplace, Portal and Collaboration products told an interviewer last week to 'stay tuned' for Mac-related news. ...more

Google cast as Internet bully

Search King has taken out a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company is penalising competitors. The search engine optimisation company claims that Google 'arbitrarily' reduced the ranking for Search King and its related sites, thereby reducing the value of the company and the service it provided to advertisers. The lawsuit brought by the president of Search King alleges that Google 'arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' Web sites, causing his business to suffer financially'. ...more