$15,000 for lost laptop

If ever you needed an object lesson in why you should religiously back-up your work, then consider the man who left his PowerBook laptop on a plane. The laptop's owner is offering a $15,000 reward for its safe return, 'no questions asked', as it contains not one but three manuscripts for books on business management. Reuters reports that two Singapore newspapers carried a four-column appeal for the computer's return, but as yet there have been no leads. ...more

Intel unwraps new name for wireless technologies

Chip giant Intel has unveiled the new name for its wireless mobile technologies The new name, Centrino, will be the umbrella for Intel initiatives to develop a new mobile processor microarchitecture and wireless capability as well as features to extend battery life, thinner and lighter form factors, and improved mobile performance. The technologies represented by the Centrino brand will include a microprocessor (formerly code-named "Banias"), related chipsets and 802.11 (Wi-Fi) wireless networking capability. ...more

ICANN can't get the .uk money in

Debt collection is not a problem you would normally associate with Internet regulation bodies. ICANN, however, is facing a dispute over charges for maintaining regional suffixes on its root servers. These root servers effectively function as the master directories of the Internet, so a listing there is essential for browsers to locate sites using suffixes such as . ...more

Microsoft poised to open Times Square store

Microsoft is poised to follow Apple into the US retail market by opening a store in New York's Times Square. The New York Post reports that the company is currently 'on the prowl' for a suitable location in which to create a 'branding experience'. Microsoft declined to comment on the report, which said that real estate broker Jones Lang LaSalle has been asked to supply information about One Times Square, the building made famous every New Year's Eve. ...more

Intel signs up to join Eclipse consortium

Intel has announced that it has become a supporting member of Eclipse, which is a consortium of software development tool vendors building an 'open platform' for integrating third-party tools. Developers optimising applications for the Pentium 4, Xeon or Itanium processors will be able to use plug-ins to integrate Intel compilers and the VTune Performance Analyzers into the Eclipse development environment. Eclipse describes itself as 'a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular'. ...more