Mobile AMD Athlons get faster

News for the notebook market. A point increase in speed for mobile Athlon processors - the mobile AMD Athlon 4 now comes in a 1.2GHz flavour. ...more

3 pricing revealed

Hutchison 3G reveals pricing packages ahead of March launch. The UK's first 3G service, Hutchison 3G's 3, has outlined pricing structures for three call packages and introduced a range of incentives to get punters to pre-order. Call packages are priced on an 'event-basis', per video, picture or text message and per download, as opposed to per byte. ...more

Italian police arrest church official in anti-piracy swoop

Italian police have arrested a sacristan working at Naples' main cathedral, the Duomo di Napoli. Together with his son, he is accused of working with a criminal organisation that downloaded music and movie pre-releases from the Internet. In total 11 members of the gang were arrested by the Rome Fiscal Police (GdF) acting on warrants issued by the Public Prosecutor of Naples. ...more

Pakistan strips satellite images of quake-stricken region from Net

Aid agencies working in Pakistan following the recent earthquakes can no longer gain access via the Internet to satellite images of the devastated areas after the government asked for them to be removed. The images provide vital information such as the extent of the devastation in the more highly populated areas and the condition of roads. They were particularly useful in Pakistan, where many areas hit by the earthquake were cut-off. ...more

Wacom intros Bluetooth tablet, pen and mouse combo

Pen tablet maker Wacom has introduced its first Bluetooth tablet, pen and mouse combination that enables users to work wirelessly up to 10m from their computer. The metallic silver A5 Graphire tablet has a working area of 8x6in and includes a photo frame for tracing images and two programmable buttons. The pen provides 512 pressure levels and includes a pressure sensitive eraser. ...more