LaCie bids to share more data with Ethernet disk mini

LaCie has entered the growing market for shared, network storage with its new Ethernet disk mini (pictured), providing simultaneous access to data to an unlimited number of users. The driver-free hard disks are available to any computer - Linux, Mac or Windows - on the network, providing up to 400GB of shared storage. A browser-based software interface allows network administrators to set a username and password and control read and write privileges for each user. ...more

Novell upgrades its Small Business Suite

Novell has announced version 6.5 of its Small Business Suite, for networking and collaboration. New features of this release include a doubling of the number of users supported - up to 100 users - and simplified licensing and configuration wizards. ...more

Nokia records Christmas sales boost

Nokia had a welcome gift this Christmas, as thousands of mobile addicts bought its phones: more than two and a half million of them according to Canalys. The final quarter for 2004 saw shipments of mobile devices rocket 51 per cent, according to the research company, but there were clear winners and losers. Nokia is clearly the former, not only selling nearly 5mn phones in Q4, but also grabbing some serious market share: 45. ...more

Disney clocks 1.3 million iTunes movie sales

Disney has sold 1.3 million movies through iTunes in the three months since it began making a small number of titles available to download from the Apple service. In an interview with the Financial Times, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that contrary to industry concerns, digital sales have not adversely affected DVD purchases. ...more

The next next gen thing

NTT DoCoMo has announced it is in the process of constructing an experimental fourth-generation wireless network at its Tokyo base. The 4G system, it is hoped, would be launched around 2010 and would offer data download rates of 100Mbits/sec and uploads of 20Mbits/sec. This is about 260 times faster than the company's current 3G service, FOMA, which uses a WCDMA network. ...more