The UK Pentium 4 race is on

The race to UK shelves with Pentium 4-based systems is well and truly on. While the P4 was only officially released yesterday, Fujitsu Siemens is claiming first place with its SCENIC L, CELSIUS 460, SCALEO and SILVERLINE systems. Home users are targeted with the SCALEO and SILVERLINE, which are designed to support intensive applications such as streaming audio and video and online gaming, as well as photo and video editing. ...more

CES: Conan O'Brien takes the limelight in Gates' keynote

'Gadgets are no longer just for geeks... ...more

Nokia spurns Apple in bid for share of mobile music market

Nokia and Loudeye are to work on a global music service for mobile networks and phones. Nokia has reached an agreement with the company that bought the OD2 music service to create a mobile platform for the delivery of digital music to phones. Motorola recently cut a deal with Apple to use its iTunes software on phones that will be available next year, but instead Nokia is choosing the company that owns OD2, whose technology powers the music services of a number of European ISPs and portals, including Wanadoo and MSN. ...more

Cisco accused of iPhone source code violation

A GPL licensing expert has accused Cisco of violating an open source license by failing to publish source code developed for its WIP300 iPhone. The VoIP handset runs a version of Linux developed by Cisco-subsidiary Linksys from code publicly available under the GPL open source licence. Under the terms of that licence, Linksys is obliged to release the altered code back to the open source community. ...more

IBM details 160 Gbits optical chipset

A new era of data sharing, including instant movie downloads, is the promise of IBM's latest research into optical chipsets. The company is attempting to integrate the speed of optical signal processing within standard CMOS high-volume chip manufacturing techniques. The result, it claims, could be an integrated package that makes optical connectivity viable for widespread computing use. ...more