Rural Wales receives EU broadband boost

The Welsh Assembly has been given the go-ahead by the EU to subsidise the extension of broadband services to remote areas. The EU will also contribute unspecified funds to the programme, which will both enable 35 exchanges excluded from BT's national ADSL implementation on economic grounds and will grant access to people currently living too far from an enabled exchange. Further funding will come from the ISP chosen to provide the service. ...more

Leopard is the next OS X big cat

The next version of OS X will be codenamed Leopard and released either late 2006 or early 2007 to coincide with the debut of Microsoft's Longhorn. OS X 10.5 will be the first upgrade after the first Intel-based Macs start to become available, although a tweaked version of 10. ...more

Is it the end for LCDs?

LG Electronics has announced the development of a new display screen that could mean the end of traditional liquid crystal displays. The new 1.8 inch colour organic electro luminescence (EL) display is to be used in new LG mobile phones. ...more

BenQ to roll out movie based on Hollywood expertise

Double Edge Entertainment (DEE), a movie producer in which BenQ is a main shareholder, will soon start production of a new movie with Chinese ancient occult ghost stories as its theme, although it has a modern western setting and will be produced using Hollywood expertise, according to a DEE press release of February 2. This is the first movie to be produced following BenQ's investment in DEE in September 2004. BenQ's investment in DEE is intended to extend its business into the digital content field since DEE has advanced cinematic digital technology and close connections with Hollywood movie experts. ...more

Formac announces designer combo

Formac has unveiled the latest additions to its Designer range of drives, a combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM - similar to that which has proved overwhelmingly successful in Apple's new iBook - and a high-speed CD-RW. Both drives incorporate Formac's proprietary BURN-Proof technology, which controls the flow of data into the unit to prevent the "buffer under run" errors that can lead to many a CD ending up as a coffee cup coaster. It also enables CDs to be burned in the background. ...more