Microsoft snaps up VoIP firm

In another sign that VoIP has become a hot area, Microsoft has announced it has bought Voice over IP firm media-streams.com AG. The company says that it hopes to integrate the Swiss firm's technology with future releases of Office. ...more

Macromedia unveils SiteSpring web collaboration tool

Macromedia is aiming to organise Web design teams with SiteSpring, a new collaboration tool due to ship later this summer. SiteSpring is a server-based tool which aids tracking projects and manages document revisions for designers and programmers. Macromedia describe it as an 'integrated business solution' designed to help manage the design, development and delivery processes in a cost-effective way. ...more

PalmOne launches new top-of-the-range Zire PDA

PalmOne has its consumer hat on for the launch of two new Zire PDAs. First up, the Zire 72 is at the top of the Zire range and is a combination of the business-oriented T2 and the Zire 71. It has Bluetooth wireless connectivity built-in and caches a list of known and trusted devices at system level as well as having real-time scanning for other available Bluetooth devices. ...more

Intel announces high capacity MP3 player

The Intel Pocket Concert Audio Player is equipped with 128MB of memory for storing digital audio in the form of MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA). The huge amount of memory is twice that which appears with most of its rivals, except for those that make use of Iomega Pocket Zip memory, which holds up to 80MB of data. Intel claims that the player's memory is sufficient for it to store up to 4 hours of music at 96Kbps, or around 20 hours of speech. ...more

Spoofed spam sibling sent to slammer

Following the first trial of its kind in the US, a brother and sister have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of spam emails. A third defendant Richard Rutkowski was cleared of charges. Finding the two defendants guilty of three charges each of sending emails with spoofed addresses, the jury recommended that Jeremy Jaynes be sentenced to nine years in prison and fined Jessica DeGroot $7,500. ...more