Intel talks business on Centrino Pro

At a 'working breakfast' in the City of London this morning, Intel officially launched Centrino Pro, the enterprise-orientated implementation of the Santa Rosa platform. The business-themed event, aimed at IT managers, focused on the security and manageability features which distinguish Centrino Pro from Santa Rosa's domestic implementation (known as Centrino Duo). There was little talk of the platform's other technical advances, as previously described here. ...more

Sony updates compact Cyber-Shot range

Sony has announced four new compact Cyber-Shot digital cameras, the S650, S700, W35 and W55. The S650 and S700 [top left and right] boast 7.2 megapixel CCDs and a Sony lens providing 3x optical zoom plus 6x digital zoom. ...more

i-mode rolls into Europe

Today marks the first roll out of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Europe, courtesy of KPN Mobile, part-owned by DoCoMo. Germany is the first to enjoy an i-mode service, with the network made official today, and punters able to sign up for a handset and subscription from 8 March through KPN Mobile subsidiary E-plus. The service will launch on the high street on 16 March. ...more

Apple kills 667MHz Power Mac

Apple has ceased production of the Power Mac G4 667MHz, less than four months after its debut. Sources have confirmed that the model has been internally designated as "end of line" and a replacement configuration is not expected before July. The demise of the 667MHz system comes as dealers in the US are finding it difficult to get their hands on the configuration, which has been tightly constrained since it was introduced in January by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. ...more

COMMENT: Cocoa confusion

When is a Mac not a Mac? When it's running a Cocoa app. A contentious statement maybe, but Cocoa applications can make OS X behave quite differently to its predecessors - behaviour we shall call, with a nod to Apple's 1984 Big Brother ad, unMacwise. Cocoa applications are those built to run exclusively in OS X using Apple's API (application programming interface), TextEdit - which is free with OS X - being one example. ...more