Intel debuts notebook Napa

Intel CEO Paul Otellini unveiled the dual-core low-power Centrino processor at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. The new chip is rumoured to be among the centrepieces of the announcements by Steve Jobs when he demonstrates the new Apple notebooks at MacExpo this week. The launch of the dual-core Centrino follows the introduction of Intel's first dual-core Pentiums in April of last year. ...more

RealNetworks unleashes Helix DNA Server code

RealNetworks has made the source code to its Helix DNA Server available. Helix DNA Server is the core source code of RealNetworks' Helix Universal Server, the commercial media server announced in July. The DNA Server is the third component of source code released into the Helix community of developers, adding to the DNA client (player) and producer (encoder) source codes announced last year. ...more

Hackers face jail

Two US hackers are facing two years in jail after targeting a number of top Internet providers in an e-mail scam. Steve Shklovskiy and Yan Shtok, both 23 and from Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to fraud charges and were jailed for two years for their role in the scam. They were also ordered to pay ?69,000 in compensation and to reveal to the Internet providers they affected, which included AOL, AT&T and Mindspring, how they pulled   off their scheme. ...more

IBM and Microsoft slug it out over 'People Ready' campaign

Technology giants IBM and Microsoft embarked on a slanging match last week as each accused the other of being 'out of touch' with what end users want. The occasion was the launch of a new advertising onslaught by Microsoft based around the concept of applications being 'People Ready'. Over the coming year, Microsoft says it plans to spend a whopping $500 million promoting the idea of empowering end users with the raft of new product offerings, including the flagship Windows Vista operating system, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Windows Mobile software and the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server. ...more

That's no Etch-A-Sketch, that's my WebPAD

Wander about the house as you may, you need never be away from the Internet with Honeywell's WebPAD. You can surf the Internet, send and receive email, and enter information via the wireless touch screen display, as long as you stay within 150 feet of the base station with a broadband Internet connection. With a touch-screen display, the device weighs under three pounds, is about an inch thick and has the dimensions of an A4 sheet of paper. ...more