IBM embraces wireless technology

IBM is to launch the first laptop with in-built antennas for wireless Internet connections. The idea is that this technology will replace current Ethernet connections used by office and school computer networks. The wireless technology has been available for some time, but this is the first time that it has been adapted and built into a laptop. ...more

BBC adopts QuickTime for Motion Gallery video collection

The BBC has announced that it has adopted QuickTime for its Motion Gallery collection video footage. The production-ready clips have been encoded in H.264, with QuickTime 7 previews that include metadata that can be searched with Spotlight. ...more

Auction-only Sun Workstations

Here's a collector's piece: one of the first five Sun Blade 1000 Workstations. The serial number, written in CEO Scott McNealy's fair hand, will adorn the first quintet of the 600 MHz workstations. But the auctioning of Sun hardware does not end there; the ties between Sun and eBay go further. ...more

Rampant Sober worm the most prevalent in May

Antivirus experts have published their monthly reports today, showing the extent of infections by the latest variants of the rampant Sober worm. With its German and English bilingual capabilities, Sober P and N were clearly earmarked to cause havoc in Europe, and this is exactly what appears to have happened. UK company Sophos says Sober-N was the most infectious for May, accounting for almost 44 per cent of reports. ...more

HP 'jilts Intel Itanium'

Intel's biggest customer for its Itanium processor is to stop building workstations built around the chip according to the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Hewlett Packard is rumoured to have dropped the chip in favour of concentrating on IA-64 based machines. If true, the move will be seen as a serious blow to the Itanium which has struggled for some time to gain the kind of market acceptance that was expected of it. ...more