Thumb-sized digicam for Palm-sized PDA

Veo has launched its Photo Traveler digital camera for SD-ready Palm handhelds in the UK. Costing a penny under £80 and available from the likes of PC World, Currys and Dixons, the camera fits into the SD slot on m125, m130, m500 and Tungsten T handhelds. The point and shoot camera captures images in full 24-bit colour on its VGA (640x480) CMOS sensor. ...more

Intel to build $300m Vietnam chip fab

Intel is turning to Vietnam as the location for a new $300m semiconductor assembly and test facility. Projected to eventually employ about 1200 people, it is sited in Ho Chi Minh City, with work scheduled to begin immediately. This new facility is described by Intel as part of a worldwide expansion of production capacity. ...more

IT Forum 2004: Microsoft bids to automate IT support

'Zero touch provisioning' is Microsoft's slogan for its new Business Desktop Deployment accelerator. Freeing up IT support staff for more critical tasks, the accelerator is intended to remove the need for technicians to be on site for day-to-day setup and deployment tasks. It is part of Microsoft's strategy to attempt to reduce the complexity of managing computer resources. ...more

BT cracks down on broadband data gluttons

BT is cracking down on data gluttons, notifying around 3,000 of its broadband users that they will either have to cut down or pay up for excessive use of its broadband connections. It says it is targeting subscribers that are downloading up to 200GB every month. Current limits to its broadband offerings range between 2 and 40GB per month. ...more

Berners-Lee makes the Royal Society

It's official, the inventor of the Internet is a jolly good fellow. At least according to the Royal Society, which has awarded him a fellowship (among 43 others, including Sir Patrick Moore) for his work with the Internet. It's a great paragraph to anyone's biography: "in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web. ...more