Meet the Titaniums - nVIDIA's new GPUs

Faster, better, more pixels, more bandwidth please, could be nVIDIA's motto if its Titanium range of graphics processors lives up to its promise. The GeForce3 Ti 500, GeForce Ti 200 and GeForce2 Ti is, according to Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at nVIDIA, the company's "most aggressive product introduction ever. We are delivering twice the performance at every price point. ...more

EPSON introduces new Stylus inkjet

The inkjet that thinks it's a laser, could almost be EPSON's line on the Stylus C80, which produces black and colour output. EPSON claims printing of 2880 dots per inch for its latest Stylus, aimed at home and small office users. Alongside a print rate of 20 pages/min (in black) and 13 pages/min (in colour), the Stylus C80 uses pigment ink for both black and colour output, which will be good for the outdoor types who take their documents with them. ...more

DVD write performance limit fast approaching warns DVD Alliance

DVD-burners will max out this year, according to the DVD Alliance. With 12-speed write products already announced and 16x drives 'just around the corner', this year will see DVD burning reach its maximum speed, creating a need for the even higher performance and capacity blue-laser products in the years to follow. 16x DVD burning blasts the data onto the disc at more than 20MB/sec. ...more

AOL UK to provide anti spyware software to subscribers

AOL UK is planning to offer anti-spyware tools to its customers from the end of next month. The AOL Spyware Protection software is currently in beta and will be incorporated into version 9.0 of the company's software with a download available to existing members. ...more

Childrens' charity blames Internet for rise in child abuse

The charity NCH has published a report on the relationship between child pornography on the Net and the prevalence of child abuse. Pointing to the way the Internet facilitates the exchange of illicit pictures and provides new ways for paedophiles to reach children, the charity also warns that organised crime has become involved in the production and sale of such pornography. For the latest figures available, it seems that 549 offenders were charged over child pornography in 2001 compared with 35 in 1988 (which is when the current legal framework over child porn was setup). ...more