Fujitsu drives in a spin

Fujitsu has introduced its MAM series of hard drives for high-end workstations and servers, spinning at 15,000rpm. With current drive speeds at the 7,200rpm mark, this more than doubling of speed allows a much greater data transfer rate, as much as 88.9Mbytes/sec. ...more

MeanFiddler to sell downloads of live music performances

The UK's biggest live music venue owner has begun selling downloads of recordings of live performances. Music from artists signed to Universal records - such as Dido and the Scissor Sisters - will be available, subject to the performers' consent, following a deal between the label and the Mean Fiddler. The music promoter is set to launch MeanTunes. ...more

Symantec moves to plug its anti-virus vulnerability

Symantec has moved to plug the security gap in its anti-virus software, which was originally flagged just last Friday. Few details of the flaw were revealed, but the vulnerability could be exploited remotely. The exact products affected are: Symantec Client Security 3. ...more

Nintendo announces Gameboy Advance release date

Forget the Xbox and the Gamecube, the console everyone wants to get their hands on has got to be the Gameboy Advance. Start saving your pennies now as Nintendo has just announced the date and street price of this updated version of its mega-popular Gameboy handheld games machine. The new 32-bit colour machine will be coming to Europe on June 22 and will cost a reasonable 130 Euros (that's about ?80, but don't count on the UK price being that!). ...more

Celerons break 1GHz speed limit

Intel's "value PC" processor breaks the GHz barrier. At the end of last week, Intel released three new desktop versions of its Celeron processor. Targeting the "value PC market", the new models clock 1. ...more