ATi's consumer products drive revenues to $463mn

Black is the happy colour for ATi with its latest quarterly financial results. On the back of a 47.8 per cent increase in revenues from the same period a year ago, ATi has stayed in profit to the tune of $47. ...more

Apple Xserve's to power new supercomputer for US Army

A new supercomputer comprising 1,566 dual-processor Apple Xserve servers is expected to be the second most powerful in the world, with a peak performance capability of 25 Teraflops per second. Mach 5 will be built by the Colsa Corporation at a cost of $5.8mn and will be used by the US Army to model the complex aerodynamics of hypersonic flight. ...more

Horses being held on AOL and Time Warner link up

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the would-be merger partners, America Online and Time Warner, have failed to reach an agreement on conditions for their link-up. The combined might of the two organisations - the link-up is valued in the region of $130bn - has put the pressure on the FTC to insist on conditions that would prevent the new entity discriminating against rival ISPs and content providers. There is concern over the cable-based Internet services already controlled by Time Warner to many US households and the charges it may raise against rival ISPs for its content. ...more

Europeans' love of the single to boost online music market

Research company Forrester has predicted that Europe's online music market will be worth €1.3bn by 2007, with our love of singles translating into burgeoning online sales for sites offering single-song downloads. Forrester's latest research reveals that Apple's strategy of offering online music for sale as single tracks may prove even more popular in Europe than in the US, where the iTunes Music Store has already punted out 2 million tracks in just over two weeks. ...more

More WAP phone fun

Picofun has developed the first multiplayer WAP game for the general packet radio system (GPRS). The new game is called Fight Arena and sees the player taking on the mantle of one of fifteen characters, each with different abilities and weaponry. The game is packed with over 100 individual full-screen images and will allow players to challenge opponents in a matter of moments. ...more