Visualising your days

For those with a busy diary, Visual Day Planner v7.3 is a 'network capable' calendar to help you plan your days. Features include alarms, the entry of recurring events, customisation of fonts and images, and the ability to view your future in a monthly, weekly or daily format. ...more

Intel and AMD spotlight embedded offerings

The Embedded Systems Conference being held in San Jose, California, has brought out rival offerings from Intel and AMD. Intel has used the event to launch two quad-core chips for embedded applications, as part of a new Quad-Core Xeon 5300 series of processors. Based on 65nm process technology, the E5335 runs at 2. ...more

AOL CTO steps down over leaked data

AOL's chief technology officer has resigned after search data for half a million of the Internet company's users was leaked onto the Web. According to an internal memo, Maureen Govern will be temporarily replaced by AOL's former CTO John McKinley until a permanent replacement can be found. Govern's department was responsible for the 7 August release of details of some 20 million keyword searches made by around 658,000 anonymous users over a three-month period. ...more

Free time for gamers

Today sees the launch of the first unmetered Internet service aimed primarily at online computer gamers. The service run by Netgames UK will be limiting subscription to its new 0800 unmetered service to just 2,500 initial subscribers, which costs ?25 per month. The company had previously run a beta trial free ISP in December and that had proved to be very popular. ...more

Ericsson ropes in Microsoft for mobile email

Microsoft and Ericsson have formed a mobile email venture, a year after announcing their partnership. The new company is called Ericsson Microsoft Mobile Venture AB and will develop products such as email and calendaring tools based on Windows 2000 Server and Exchange. Microsoft has a 30 per cent stake in the company and Ericsson has 70 per cent. ...more