Adopt a T-Rex!

Forget spending hours hunched over your PC stroking away playing Black & White, you can now raise your own virtual dinosaur at a new web site. It might be aimed squarely at the kiddie market, but myFrenz.com is developing virtual characters in an attempt to bring "Squeezing Wiggling, Living Creatures into Cyberspace". ...more

Hillary Clinton joins GTA row

Hillary Clinton, the wife of the ex-President and now a US Senator, has stepped into the row over whether or not there are explicit mini-games hidden in the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. She has asked the Federal Trade Commission that regulates computer games in the States to re-examine the game's rating from M (Mature) to (AO) Adults Only, reports Reuters. . ...more

Sundance films settle online

Organisers of the Sundance film festival have set up a Web site to showcase some of the online films debuting at the Mecca for independent cinema. Three works will be shown each day until 28 Feb and are free to view if you register. You can get to the site here. ...more

Acer launches new notebooks, Tablet PCs

Acer, which recently became the number two notebook supplier in Europe, is looking to extend its market share with new ranges of notebooks and Tablet PCs in the run up to Christmas. The company is launching two models in the Acer Aspire range - the 2001 and 2003 - the former aimed at the high-end consumer market and the other at the professional market. The notebooks are based on Centrino technology and include the Pentium M processor with speeds of up to 1. ...more

Apple announce G4 iBooks

Apple has unnveiled its first ever G4 iMacs, and condemned the six-year-old G3 processor to history. The range has been trimmed from four models to three, with only a single 12in option available. Apple noted last week that the success of the PowerBook 12in have 'cannibalised' iBook sales The three new models are as follows: ? 12in: 800MHz G4, 256K L2 cache, 256MB DDR266 memory, 30GB Ultra ATA hard drive, combo drive (DVD/CD-RW), ATI Mobility Radeon graphics with 32MB of video RAM - ?849. ...more