Apache to tempt new talent with salaries

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the body behind the widely adopted open source Web server among other projects, is considering hiring full-time, paid staff. Currently a volunteer organisation, the extra staff are seen as necessary for future growth. Positions up for grabs would include an executive director, according to Brian Behlendorf, a co-founder and director of the ASF. ...more

Think tank recommends compulsory use of e-Government services

A new report from The Work Foundation recommends that Net-savvy users should have to use some e-services in order to boost the use and the money-saving benefits of paperless transactions. The report, SmartGov - renewing Electronic Government for Improved Service Delivery, says the government's current target of getting all services online by 2005 should be downgraded, with priority given to getting people to use them. Co-auther James Crabtree said: 'Some of the services Government has to put online to meet its 100 per cent target - from burial at sea to potato seed classification - begin to look a little peculiar when barely 3 per cent of those eligible are filling in their tax returns online. ...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

Sony's smallest console proves biggest launch ever

Sony's long awaited PlayStation Portable has taken UK gamers by storm. The new PSP console sold an estimated 185,000 units in its first week making it the most successful games hardware launch ever. By comparison, the rival Nintendo DS sold just 87,000 in its first week on the shelves in March. ...more

AMD goes full steam ahead with Pacifica virtualisation

AMD has unveiled a full specification for its Pacifica virtualisation technology. The hope is to bring hardware and software partners on board to start developing products that will benefit from virtualisation, which will ensure demand exists once the technology is rolled out in earnest - billed for the first half of 2006. The technology allows multiple instances of operating systems and applications to run from a single hardware resource. ...more