Orange starts pay as you go 3G

Orange is to launch its first pay as you go 3G service in time for Christmas. Handsets start from ?79.99 and will be available from October. ...more

Brace yourself for more Blue Men

The "Bunny People" may have been ludicrous, but the "Blue Men" are just plain daft. We are talking Intel advertising, and a new $300m Pentium 4 campaign is about to be launched. Yes, the worldwide campaign to trumpet the new processor, which kicks off this coming Monday, features more visual antics from the Blue Man theatre troupe. ...more

Spoofed spam sibling sent to slammer

Following the first trial of its kind in the US, a brother and sister have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of spam emails. A third defendant Richard Rutkowski was cleared of charges. Finding the two defendants guilty of three charges each of sending emails with spoofed addresses, the jury recommended that Jeremy Jaynes be sentenced to nine years in prison and fined Jessica DeGroot $7,500. ...more

IBM supercomputer breaks own speed record

An IBM supercomputer already rated as the fastest in the world has overtaken its own speed record according to the US Energy Department. The record was achieved despite the fact that the computer in question is still only half built. An IBM Blue Gene/L currently under construction at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California performed 135. ...more

Tapwave zaps Zodiac with PSP looming

Tapwave has discontinued its innovative, PalmOS-based handheld gaming device. Introduced a little over a year ago to favourable reviews, the Zodiac was always going to find it hard to break into a market dominated by Nintendo and excitedly awaiting the released of Sony's PlayStation Portable. Just ask Nokia. ...more