HP guns for Nokia's mobile crown

HP has announced the iPAQ 514 Voice Messenger, the company's first foray into voice-centric mobile phones. Although the name will be familiar to anyone who knows HP's range of sophisticated iPAQ smartphones, the Voice Messenger is HP's first 'candy bar' style device. Running the new Windows Mobile 6, the device also sports a 1. ...more

Apple intros 17in education iMac

Apple has introduced a new version of the 17in iMac designed specifically for education customers. Priced at $400 less (UK pricing to follow) than the cheapest retail mode, the education iMac boasts a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with a 1,440x900 widescreen LCD display and a built-in iSight video camera. ...more

ICANN makes .xxx extinct

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a bid to create an adult .xxx top level domain (TLD). Campaigners argue that the TLD will make websites with sexual content easier to filter out for those that don't want to view it, and easier to find for those that do. ...more

Visionary Design awards reward website accessibility

Manchester United and the Citizen's Advice Bureau are among those honoured with Visionary Design Awards for their websites. The awards are part of a campaign to improve the accessibility of material on the Web to the visually impaired. The idea is to encourage designers to consider issues regarding text magnification, the use of text to speech technology and refreshable Braille. ...more

Canon develops digital TV printer

Canon has developed a printer that will print information from digital TV broadcasts, a business that it hopes will be worth around ?500m by 2010. The inkjet printer will launch in Japan next year for the equivalent of approximately ?250, with US and European launches to follow at an unspecified later date. Rather than simply print the image on the screen, the device will primarily be used to make hard copies of extra information on red-button pages. ...more